Boy Scout Troop 108

Don't forget, the first meeting of the 2008-2009 scouting year will be held this Tuesday September 9 at 7:30 PM in the church hall. Hope to see you all there, full of Scout Spirit and prepared for the Best Year Ever.

The full troop calendar is available to registered users after logging in to the site.

Summer 2008 was very productive for the scouts of Troop 108. During a single week of summer camp, 14 scouts completed 58 merit badges and partially completed another eight badges. But that's not all! Five scouts completed the requirements for their next rank, and eight scouts earned their Totin' Chip, which grants them the right to carry and use woods tools. Troop 108 scouts were busy outside of summer camp too: five scouts earned a total of eleven merit badges and three other scouts advanced to their next rank. That's a total of 69 merit badges and eight rank advancements completed over the summer -- an accomplishment you can all be very proud of! Special thanks to the senior scouts and adult scouters that worked with these scouts to make it possible.

A new version of the Troop 108 affiliated Merit Badge Counselors is available in the Advancement section after you log in.

We're always looking for more, and there's a application available in the same section.

The troop recently returned from a week at summer camp, and we have over 200 pictures to show that everybody had a great time.

For now, log in and look under the Camps menu until I can figure out a better place to display them on this site.

The online advancement system keeps track of the following scouting awards. If you have earned any of these awards, please provide the troop's Advancement Coordinator with a copy of your card or the page in the book where it is signed off so the system can be updated:

* BSA Lifeguard
* Boardsailing BSA
* Den Chief Service Award
* Emergency Preparedness BSA
* Fifty-Miler Award
* Firem'n Chit
* Historic Trails Award
* Interpreter Strip
* Kayaking BSA (Youth)
* Leave No Trace (Youth)
* Mile Swim
* Paul Bunyan Woodsman
* SCUBA BSA (Youth)
* Snorkeling BSA
* Totin' Chip
* World Conservation Award (Boy Scout)

Three Boy Scouts are recovering from burns suffered during a "ring of fire" demonstration that went awry at the Joseph A. Citta Scout Reservation.

Deputy Chief Michael Mohel of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office said the incident occurred about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, when an 18-year-old Scout, who is also a senior staff member at the reservation, used rubbing alcohol from a bottle to create a flammable circle on a makeshift table, Mohel said.

The BSA’s new MyScouting portal provides an Internet gateway to a variety of programs and services for volunteer Scout leaders.

The program was launched in August 2007 as a joint project of the BSA Information Systems Division and Custom Communication Division, located at the national office in Irving, Tex.

A wide variety of important and often required forms for pack, troop, team, and crew activities and programs are conveniently available as downloads from the BSA national Web site at http://www.scouting.org/Media/forms.aspx.

While forms are available at local Scout council service centers and in some BSA publications, the online source offers a convenient way for Scouters to obtain copies at any time.

Members of a troop committee can now take training online by completing the Troop Committee Challenge at the BSA Learning Center (http://olc.scouting.org).

The fun and interactive training is a vital tool for both new and veteran troop committee members. It is designed to help the troop committee work as a team to improve the Scouting experience for adult and youth members while also helping to build the commitment of individual committee members.

The BSA has a new online resource regarding questions of health, safety, and risk management. The information can be found on the BSA’s Web site, www.scouting.org.

By clicking on the “Scouting Safely” tab along the left-hand side of the home page, volunteers can access risk management, health, safety, and training information. The Guide to Safe Scouting, as well as health and safety alerts and other health- and safety-related publications, will be available. A frequently asked questions (FAQ) section will be updated periodically with new information.