For all scouts hoping to advance prior to the upcoming Court of Honor, all ranks after the Scout Rank need to be completed by the end of the meeting on Monday, May 25.

GT8’s final Court of Honor for the activity year is on Monday, June 8 from 6:30-8:00 pm at Silver Creek Middle School. This will be a great opportunity to recognize the work scouts have done, for the new scouts to experience a Court of Honor, and to celebrate the 2025-26 scouting year.

After the troop meeting this week, SM Tucker will be meeting with the scouts working on the Chess merit badge from 7:30-8:30 pm. Scouts should bring their chess set, if they have one, and come prepared to talk about requirements 3, 4, and 6.

GT8 is going to work on Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge. Mr. Cimo will be meeting with interested scouts after the troop meetings on May 18th, June 1 and June 15.

BT8 and GT8 will clean up Jesup-Blair Local Park (Silver Spring) on Saturday, June 6th, 9:30-11:30 am

This cleanup counts toward conservation projects and Scouts can earn SSL hours. We are looking for two parents to help chaperone the cleanup. Cleanup supplies (gloves, etc) are provided.

A large group of scouts stayed behind last week to discuss and start working on the Chess Merit Badge. We will be meeting after our normal troop meeting 2-3 more times to get through most of the requirements, and then we will plan to complete the merit badge at summer camp. The next meeting will be after our normal troop meeting on May 11. We will meet from 7:30-8:30. Each of the scouts should come prepared to work on requirements 1-3. Here is a link to the requirements