Labor Day Family Camp at Goshen Scout Reservation was a great time! Check out our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/GoshenNCAC, for more highlights from the weekend.
Goshen Family Camp Highlights!
Sign Up NOW for the Camp Snyder Fall Cub Exposition!
Cub Families can now register for the Cub Expositions for either Sep 25-27 or October 23-25. This is a great opportunity to get your Cub and the family in the outdoors in fall weather!
The Exposition features overnight family camping, self-guided activities and program activities run by volunteers. All camping and activities will be conducted using COVID-19 virus precautions. Space is limited and we cannot accommodate day visitors due to COVID-19 virus capacity limitations, so sign up soon! Register here!
Just for fun, see if you can match the Exposition activity name in the left column with the correct description in the right column below
BB Guns Not A Drink
Leatherwork/Handicrafts Robin Hood
Fishing Findable Trinkets
Geocaching Walk the Line
Woodshop Helmets Needed
Archery Walk On Water
Climbing They’re Biting
Slackline Sawdust and Glue
COFFEE The Scouterhorn
Bicycling Lets Get Crafty
STEM Bullseye
Pack 1151 Bikes the Washington and Old Dominion Trail!
Pack 1151 of Ashburn Village was able to take advantage of the beautiful weekend weather and take a few of our new Scouts on a bike ride! Six of our wonderful families braved the Washington and Old Dominion Trail for a 2 mile long socially distanced ride!
It was great to see the smiles on these young faces and get them outside and active!
Adventures of Pack-Man and Newbie – On Principal
Meet the STEMaTHON Speakers!
MEET THE SPEAKERS FOR THE STEMATHON!
MR. PAUL MACDONALD, ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEER
9/5 11AM EST | STEM Career Conference
MR. TONY SPRINGER, NASA ENGINEER
AIRPLANES AND ROCKETS, 30 YEARS AT NASA
9/5 6:30PM EST | STEM Innovator Moment
- Tony Springer is the Director of the Integration and Management Office for Aeronautics at NASA Headquarters.
- He is responsible for the day to day operation of the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Over the years he has run wind tunnel tests, helped train the astronauts, and worked on X-Planes among other duties.
DR. CRAIG BEYROUTY, DEAN, COLLEGE OF AGNR
9/6 10:00AM EST | KEYNOTE
DR. BILL BOWERMAN, CHAIR, COLLEGE OF AGNR
9/6 10:15AM EST | Food Safety & Food Security
DR. CHRIS ELLIS, PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SCIENCE AND LANDSCAPE AGRICULTURE
Green Infrastructure and Water Quality Treatment
MR. MARK DEMORRA, 4-H STEM Specialist
4-H Water Quality & Infrastructure
NIPUN KOTTAGE, ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS
9/6 11:45AM EST | Water Solutions
Nipun is an Eagle Scout from Maryland, now in med school at UPenn. In between these adventures, he worked with Engineers without Borders, which took him to work on a water tower in Ghana and a piped water system in Nicaragua. Nipun is joining STEMaTHON to share the nexus between the engineering design process and the food/water challenges. Ask him how he went from Philmont to Ghana!
BEN BEESE, EAGLE SCOUT with SDGs
9/6 12:30PM EST | Food (in)Security and Sustainable Development
Ben is a scout volunteer from Denver, CO. He has a passion for peacebuilding and the SDGs, a passion he’s brought with him to various scouting roles including the Contingent Management Team for the 2019 World Scout Jamboree and the planing team for the 2022 World Scout Moot. Outside of scouting, Ben studies modern history at Middlebury College in Vermont.
MR. ANDY DARBY, BEEKEEPER
9/6 3:00PM EST | BEES & HONEY
Andrew Darby; Troop 1449 Assistant Scoutmaster; full time retiree; part time project manager of a 200,000+ team working nonstop with one goal, to satisfy Mr. Darby’s sweet tooth. Mr. Darby has been a hobby beekeeper since he was 27, after being introduced to the hobby when a friend needed help moving hives. The seed was planted and tending bees became a lifelong passion, even though, he says, “I eat less than a pound of honey a year. I just like to watch what looks like chaos, but is actually a well controlled production plant, happening in my front yard. It also feels good to play a role in helping bees help our environment.
Join us from September 5-6, 2020 for a STEMaTHON: Scouts Building Bridges and Feeding the World through the lens and tools of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This two day event includes online workshops, keynotes, tours, presentations and even activities!
NCAC Scouting at Home 2020 Award Ends September 7!
In response to the Coronavirus Pandemic, the National Capital Area Council (NCAC) encourages Scouts of all ages to stay home and be safe, while continuing to be a Scout! The NCAC Scouting at Home 2020 Award recognizes Scouts and Scouters for meeting the challenge of living by the Scout Oath and Law while the pandemic requires social distancing to be in place.
The NCAC Scouting at Home 2020 Award was introduced in May and has been an overwhelming success! The deadline for completing requirements and ordering patches has been extended to September 7th. Complete the award and order your patches by then to guarantee you will receive the number of these limited-edition patches that you would like. Any order after that, will be available on a first come, first served basis until the supply of patches runs out. We expect patches to be shipped by the end of the fall or early winter.
For specific details, to obtain the requirement sheets, or to order patches, see https://www.scoutingevent.com/082-scoutingathomeaward.