Basic Data

Main Focus (Interest)

Our interests vary because the troop's programs have been boy-driven The Patrol Leader's Council choses and plans our activities. Our current Merit-Badge focus is the Hiking, Safety, and Family Life badges.

Outings

We usually have 4-5 camping outings each year.

Activities

In the last three years, we have done the following activities:

Equipment (and Condition)

We have three fully-furnished patrol boxes. We have a big canvas tent used by the adults, and 3 2-person Eureka tents available for scouts who don't have their own. We have 4 big tarps we use to cover patrol boxes, tables, etc. at campouts. We have a big gas-fired blaster we use for quick heating of community dishwater and rinse water.

Our Scout Population

Troop 366 is currently in a rebuilding stage. There were a group of boys who became cub-scouts together, and advanced pretty much as a group. Of this group, 4 have earned Eagle rank within the last 2 years, we also have 3 life scouts who will probably earn Eagle in 1996. In a city-wide school re-organization, the school where troop 366 did its recruiting was torn down about 5 years ago. Since scout recruiting in Bloomington has been done mainly through the schools, and there was no longer a neighborhood school for us, and all other schools already had troops, this has posed a recruiting issue for us. Through greater involvement with the cub pack, we believe that we have overcome this limitation, at least for the near future. We invited the 2nd year Webelos to our winter campout last year; we're working with 8 potential new scouts joining 366 1966; we've got 4 new boys who just moved into the neighborhood started with us in September.

Funding

Narative

BSA troop 366 is in Dan Patch District, Viking Council (Minnesota), USA. Our 1996 summer-camp is scheduled for July 14..20 at Many-Point Scout camp, near Ponsford (Northern Minnesota). We have reserved a site with enough room for both ourseleves and a partner troop.
We are looking for a troop interested in a home-and-home camping exchange, preferably in 1996/7 and 1998. We have approval of Viking Council and the International Division of BSA to seek a partner troop interested in such an exchange. What country we would visit is open, however our boy's preference is Europe. We are aware that many European troups are mixed-sex, i.e., both boys and girls. Such a troop, as well as an all-boy troop, would be welcome with us and at Viking Council's Many Point Scout Camp.

Our vision is for a roughly three-(might be four-) week visit each year, structured as follows: (extra week is home or local trip)

Some Scouting WWW References

My complete set of Scouting URLs

USA Boy Scouting Home-Page, InterNETional Scouting Home-Page, Scouting in Switzerland, Scouting in Iceland, A troop in Virginia, A Girl-Scout troop in Massachusetts, A Scoutmaster in the Netherlands, and Flint River Council's Camp Thunder in Woodbury, Georgia.


This page, found at "http://www.winternet.com/~stachour/scouts/trp_prof.htm" is maintained by Paul Stachour , stachour@winternet.com.
It was last updated on 04 Jun 1996