On October 28 troops & Venture crews are challenged to test (and learn!) map skills at the 47th Annual Maryland Scout Orienteering Day, a fun event at Patuxent River Park near Upper Marlboro. The event cost is $4.00 (patch, 3 new color maps, more) plus $2/person/night if camping (about half of our usual ~50 units camp one or both nights.)
Come for the day, or camp on site. No Cubs, no Webelos. Self-guided map instruction starts off the day, designed for beginners to this forest navigation map sport. Register at BaltimoreBSA.org/orienteering by Oct. 22. Questions?…. contact event chair DaveLinthicum@earthlink.net
Last year NCAC had the usual 50% of attendees and most of the award winners, led by Arlington’s Troop 111 from Chain Bridge District and Kensington’s 439 from Potomac District…. For more, see https://weownadventure.com/troops-111-and-439-tops-at-orienteering/
Tristan Torabi of Troop 255 in Chevy Chase, MD led the design and build of a two-level training structure for firefighters and other emergency responders to practice real-world emergency scenarios at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad in Bethesda, MD. The structure houses two training props. Prop 1: A trap door for firefighters to experience a floor collapse followed by the need to squeeze through a tube to escape. And Prop 2: the upper story allows responders to practice repelling down an elevator shaft, with a reinforced bailout window. Staff at BCCRS told Tristan this project may save lives by providing real-world training for firefighters to practice infrequent, yet life threatening scenarios they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to experience. The project involved over 560 volunteer hours and the labor and materials is valued at $55,000.
this. It will have tremendous benefits to training which ultimately allow us to perform on emergency incidents in a more effective way for the community and a safer way to protect ourselves from the dangers of the emergency environment. I have worked with many Scouts over the years on different Eagle projects and I know this is a tremendous undertaking and accomplishment.”
