All parents of GT8 scouts are invited to join Scoutmaster Tucker and Meg Grabb, the Committee Chair, for an All Hands meeting on Monday, April 20 during the normal troop meeting.

GT8 is going on its annual horse-riding camping trip in May on the weekend of May 16-17. Scouts will learn about horsemanship, horse riding, and farm life camping overnight at a family-run working farm in Maryland.

Join us for the Spring Merit Badge Day on April 18, 2026 from 10am-2:30pm at Holy Redeemer (basement classrooms). We will offer the opportunity to start working on 2 merit badges (4 to choose from).

A fitness test for the Tenderfoot requirement will be held on Saturday, April 25th at 9:00 AM at Silver Creek Middle School in Kensington.

If you are going to Summer camp, all medical forms are due to Lida Oum, the GT8 form coordinator (lida.oum@gmail.com) by May 1. BSA health forms parts A, B, and C are required and part C needs to be completed by a physician.

Our whitewater rafting trip is this weekend. Please review the GT8 website for all details. We are a smaller group (9 scouts), so we will not need a parent to drive for the carpool this time since ASM Altepeter and SM Tucker can fit all the scouts and gear in their cars. We will meet at the North Chevy Chase Christian Church at 9:30 am on Saturday, and will be coming back to the same location on Sunday at about 10:00 (we will send an email with the exact timing on Sunday morning).