YOU are INVITED to the NCAC Sporting Clays Shoot on September 16, 2022. Come out and test your marksmanship! Teams will compete for the top spot at the inaugural NCAC Sporting Clays Shoot.
See the attached flyer for details — and share with friends and Scouters!
This event is open to all adults and will be held at the premier Prince George’s County Trap & Skeet Center, 10400 Good Luck Rd, Glenn Dale, MD.
Scout creativity was on full display in Michael’s Woodshop during Camp William B. Snyder’s second annual Scout Specialty Week. Among the wide variety of merit badge offerings, Michael’s Woodshop offered the Woodwork Merit Badge, a challenging merit badge requiring extended sessions throughout the week. Scouts learned about lumber, shop safety, first aid and tool sharpening. To demonstrate the use of different tools, cuts and joints, Scouts created three projects including a toolbox, a wooden mallet and a cell phone stand. The real fun began when they designed and built their own projects. The results were amazing!
The classes during the merit badge week were led by a group of highly skilled woodshop volunteers. It was a very successful week with 15 Woodwork Merit Badges earned! To see more of the fun activities during the week, go to the Woodshop Activity Slideshows section of our webpage where you can view our latest addition Scout Specialty Week 2022.
Michael’s Woodshop operates year-round and is a great venue for Scouts of all ages to create and learn. We are able to offer Woodwork Merit Badge classes and many other programs through the time, talent and hard work of our dedicated volunteers.
If you enjoy being in a wood shop and like to teach and guide youth, please consider joining the Michael’s Woodshop Team. There are roles available for both adult and youth volunteers; from novices to experienced woodworkers. It is a truly rewarding role.
Please visit the Michael’s Woodshop webpage for more information about volunteering, upcoming events or for information about reserving the shop. If you have questions or would like additional information, please email the volunteer team at MichaelsWoodshop.CWBS@gmail.com
Join fellow Scouts at Nationals Park for Scout Day on August 14th!
This should be a great event as every individual who purchases a special ticket will receive a limited edition patch, and have access to an exclusive pregame event before gates open for the game!
If you organize a group of 20 or more, the group leader will receive a complimentary game ticket (1 ticket per order).
To book your tickets for Scout Day, head over to:
https://www.mlb.com/nationals/tickets/specials/scout-days
As we know, outdoor ethics is a critically important aspect of scouting. It is central to everything we do in BSA, how we live the outdoor code/law/oath/motto, how we use resources wisely & how we live as humans on planet Earth. Sara Holtz, Chair of the NCAC Outdoor Ethics Committee & Leave No Trace Master Educator, created an Outdoor Ethics newsletter that includes upcoming courses, best practices, interviews with members, news from our community, awards, project ideas, etc
Complete this form if you’d like to subscribe: https://forms.gle/bWfZwwZduhFXQSvA6
You do not need to be an Leave No Trace Trainer/Master Educator, Tread Trainer, Master Tread Trainer, or in NCAC to subscribe, so please subscribe and please share this with scouters interested in outdoor ethics, Leave No Trace, Tread Lightly, the Land Ethic, environmental issues, conservation practices. There are currently subscribers from 12 councils!
Normally in Michael’s Woodshop, we use the expression “like kids in a candy store” to describe either our shop volunteers (who just love to be in the shop) or parents who are visiting the shop for the first time and find themselves admiring the well-organized array of tools and great workspace. However, this summer we also used the phrase to describe the Cub Scouts who attended Day Camp and Resident Weekends at Camp Snyder. During their stay, they had the chance to visit Michael’s Woodshop and create their very own candy dispenser. It was a great hands-on project and over the course of the summer the Cub Scouts made 564 candy dispensers!!!
The process started with a safety briefing and some brief assembly instructions and then the fun began! Cub Scouts were guided by camp staff and volunteers in drilling, gluing and nailing together their dispensers. After the assembly process was completed, Cub Scouts sanded all the corners and edges and were then given the opportunity to stamp their project with the official “Handcrafted in Michael’s Woodshop” brand. It was great fun and the activity in Michael’s Woodshop was rated as one of the youth favorites. To see more great photos from summer camp, please link to our Activity Slideshows and view Summer Camp in Michael’s Woodshop 2022.
Michael’s Woodshop operates year-round and is a great venue for Scouts to create and learn. In addition to supporting summer camp and family camping weekends, Michael’s Woodshop offers a number of regular and seasonal activities such as merit badge classes and our annual Pinewood Derby Days! The shop may be reserved by Dens for our Baloo the Builder and Webelos Build It Workshops and may also be reserved for many other events such as District events, Pack & Troop activities and Eagle Scout Projects.
Please visit the Michael’s Woodshop webpage for more information about the shop capabilities, upcoming events and for information about reserving the shop. If you have questions or would like additional information, please email the volunteer team at MichaelsWoodshop.CWBS@gmail.com
The NCAC Climbing and High Adventure Committees will host a weekend of family camping fun and adventure at Camp Rock Enon on September 16-18, 2022. Open to all ages. Enjoy the best climbing on natural rock on a Scout camp close to DC. Hike to scenic Pinnacle Rock on the Tuscarora Trail. Join Cub games. Relax at a wooded campsite with nearby restrooms and showers.
Youth 11 and older can climb and rappel on Camp Rock Enon’s massive sandstone climbing wall. Scouts BSA can complete on-rope Climbing and Camping merit badge requirements. Webelos can rappel. Cubs and Webelos can climb on Camp Rock Enon’s mobile climbing tower, boulder, walk a slackline, join a photo scavenger hunt, geocache, hike, launch water or air-propelled rockets, and more.
See our flyer and Climboree Guide for details. Contact NCAC.Climboree@gmail.com with questions. Registration closes on Friday, September 2. Register today at https://scoutingevent.com/082-Climboree!
If you’re interested in Climbing… are you interested in Climb Instructor Training?
Check out these two October events held by the NCAC Climbing Committee:
https://scoutingevent.com/082-Level_I_ClimbingInstructorTraining
