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NCAC 2022 Summer Camp Webinar: High Adventure

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March 14, 2022: High Adventure

Missed the webinar? You can view a recording of it below.

In this webinar, we give units planning for Summer 2022 and future summers an overview of Lenhok’sin High Adventure as well as the NCAC High Adventure Committee sponsored trips to both Lenhok’sin and the National High Adventure bases.

Download the slides from the webinar here: High Adventure presentation slides [PPTX]

Get more information on the various high adventure opportunities:

You can find the whole series of NCAC 2022 Summer Camp Webinar recordings in our playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5x999ziTZaUr9bwVkz41m-iMDd-Wflqj

To Our Friends of Scouting, We Thank You!

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Thank you to all the Scouting families and volunteers who have invested in Scouting this year by supporting NCAC’s Friends of Scouting Campaign! Your contribution ensures that we can keep Scouting strong in our communities for more than 60,000 local participants.

Your gifts go towards expenses that support our local programs throughout the year, including our ability to offer special activities at the District and Council level; upkeep and improvements at our Council’s camps – Camp William B. Snyder, Goshen Scout Reservation, and Howard M. Wall; training for our volunteer leaders; and other essential activities.

It is only through the generosity of our Friends of Scouting that we can continue supporting our Scouting families and ensuring young people who would otherwise be unable to afford the program can participate. Our Scouts have repaid that generosity by supporting their communities through service projects that keep our essential workers safe, our neighborhoods clean, and food banks filled with food.

How can you help support NCAC today?

If you have not yet made a contribution to our annual Friends of Scouting Campaign please consider doing so by visiting NCACBSA.org/Give.

If you have already made a contribution, thank you! Please take a moment to see if your employer offers a matching gift program as an incentive for employees to participate in philanthropic endeavors.  If your company has such a program, please consider listing NCAC as a beneficiary.

Every contribution helps support local Scouting. Please help us ensure all young people in our community have the opportunity to be Prepared. For Life. 

Thank you again for your support!

Campaign Progress Update

As of Friday, April 1, our Council has raised 42% of our roughly $1.1 million goal! Curious to see how your District has helped us reach that milestone? Check out the chart below!

 

NCAC Announces 2022 Silver Beaver Class

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National Capital Area Council, Boy Scouts of America is proud to announce the 2022 Class of Silver Beavers. The Silver Beaver Award is a distinguished service award presented at the local level.

Recipients of this award are adult leaders who have made an impact on the lives of youth both in and out of Scouting. They have given hard work, self-sacrifice, dedication, and many years of service to our community. The members of this year’s class are:

Class Honoree: Jon Baake

Mary Abe
Gerard Beaulieu III
David Bloxsom
Shawn Carroll
Maria Cooper
William Dubishar
Phil Jackson
Susan Lichtman
William McDonnell
Fran O’Reilly
David Rockwell
Brian Summers Sr.

These community leaders will be recognized at the Council Court of Honor in May 22, 2022 at 2:00pm at Camp Snyder. Registration is online!

Pack 278 Celebrates First Townes Supernova in 70 Years

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As Pack 278 enters its 70th year as a chartered BSA Pack serving boys and girls in the FSK District, leaders are excited to award it’s first Dr. Charles H. Townes Supernova to an Arrow of Light Scout, Finn H. The Dr. Charles H. Townes Supernova honors Dr. Townes’ many achievements. While working on the Townes Supernova, Finn was given the challenge to research 5 different scientists and engineers. Finn chose to research Ralph Baer, Jane Goodall, Katherine Johnson and Alan Turing. He found they had similarities to Townes and his ability to believe in himself despite others telling him his ideas would never work. The fifth innovator Finn researched was Walt Disney. Walt Disney believed that if you could dream it then it was possible. Throughout his life, Disney pushed the boundaries of what was possible by inventing a multi-plane camera to create the first full-length animated motion picture, Snow White. Walt Disney inspired his Imagineers to combine their imagination with technology to create incredibly life-like animatronics and innovative theme park rides. Like Disney, Supernova Mentors strive to inspire youth to believe in themselves and push the boundaries.

Finn’s parents would say that Finn has an overabundance of imagination. That imagination routinely materializes through Lego creations and occasionally scotch tape. While working on the Townes Supernova, Finn interviewed John Morin, a mechanical engineer responsible for designing and building the equipment and hardware that attaches rockets to the launch pad on the Northrup Grumman’s Antares and Omega programs. Finn continued to investigate his interest in engineering while completing other Townes Supernova requirements. Finn designed and built a birdhouse out of PVC drainage pipe. He spoke with his den leader, Adam Fogle, about the importance of angles when building and discussed why a tool that looks like a triangle is called a square. He completed a science experiment to better understand the structural design of bridges. He tested how different shapes like triangles, squares, and trapezoids can add to their strength. Finn has proven through his hard work over the past 18 months that he has potential as a future engineer if he continues to believe in himself and his imagination. Finn will continue Scouting with Troop 1066 in Jefferson, Maryland.

Goshen Vets: Older Scout Adventures

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Offered to Scouts at Camp Bowman, Camp Marriott, and Camp Olmsted, the Goshen Vets program is Goshen’s sampler plate program for Older Scouts. For Scouts that have done most of the Merit Badges offered at camp, Vets is an all day opportunity for those seeking an extra challenge. Each week, the Scouts signed up for Vets create their own schedule from a variety of activities offered all around the lake.

Based out of Camp Bowman, Vets is recommended for Scouts ages 14 and up. Activity options range from competitions between Vets in a chili cook off or a canoe race, exploring Goshen with day hikes or visiting outposts with a Taste of Lenhok’sin, or just hanging out with new friends on an overnighter.

Get the Goshen Vets Activity Menu for Summer 2022 and learn more about the Vets program in Goshen’s Scout Camp General Downloads: www.gotogoshen.org/forms

Training session for Outdoor Ethics Guides & their Advisors

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We all know about the Outdoor Ethics Guide position and have seen the Handbook, but how do you actually operationalize this position of responsibility to have the greatest positive impact in your unit? Join Outdoor Ethics Guides and adult advisors for an in-person session on Saturday March 26 at 4-6pm to learn best practices, meet other Outdoor Ethics Guides and adult advisors, share experiences, discuss ways to overcome challenges, and create a network of Outdoor Ethics Guides across NCAC.

This session is open to current and future Outdoor Ethics Guides and their adult advisors. Ideally scouts and their advisors will attend together but attendance of both is not a requirement to attend.

Saturday March 26
4-6pm
Vale United Methodist Church, 11528 Vale Rd, Oakton, VA 22124

Register: https://scoutingevent.com/082-57314