Registration for Akela’s Trail, the training formerly known as Pow-Wow!, is open!
Akela’s Trail is a 1/2 day virtual event, on November 20, 2021, which provides supplemental training for Cub Scout Leaders, Adults, and Partners. Please pass the information along to everyone in your Cub Scout Units!
Register today, https://scoutingevent.com/082-51296. 
Come join us for three sessions on November 20, 2021, via Zoom. We will offer over ten supplemental courses, which will aid all Cub Scout Adult Leaders and Partners, in putting on an effective and powerful program!
Registration coming soon!
We hope to see you and your fellow Cub Leaders and Partners at the training!
We’re starting another MeritBadges@Home campaign and need your help!
The National Capitol Area Council (NCAC), Scouts BSA is looking for Merit Badge Counselors for the October 2021 session of the NCAC MeritBadges@Home program. Counselors will conduct remote instruction for Scouts through Zoom and collaborate through the Basecamp platform between a period of October 11-30, 2021. (Last three weeks of October). Use of both of these resources will be provided by the Council.
If you are interested in serving as a counselor, please follow the link below to view a registration form with additional information about the commitment. The counselor registration deadline is Friday, September 24, 2021. A suggested date and time format is included on the Google form, however, our format is flexible enough to match our counselor’s availability for date and time.
October 2021 MB@Home Counselor Registration Form (https://forms.gle/eq6uzpGXiRsETctp7)
Take a live look of counselors who have signed up (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ewHN5sOqgapXKU8lBuA8nkjBZEAdu_vTyKSVBUu25KU/edit?usp=sharing)
We will happily accept multiple counselors offering the same badge. Feel free to share these links with your Scouting and professional colleagues.
Here is the projected timeline of the event:
Counselor Registration Closes: Friday, September 24
Participation Registration Opens: Week of September 27
Week 1 & 2 Sessions Start: Monday, October 11
Week 2 & 3 Sessions Start: Monday, October 18
Closing up sessions: Sunday, October 31
For questions regarding this event, ping @Bill Pzedpelski on the NCAC Basecamp or contact bill.pzedpelski@gmail.com.
Thank you for your consideration,
Bill Pzedpelski
NCAC Advancement Committee
This course is aimed at all adults working with older youth regardless of program (Scouts BSA, Sea Scouts, Venturing, or Exploring). This training IS NOT recommended for Cub Scout leaders. All participants must have completed Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills, as well as the position-specific training for their program area prior to attending this course and be able to meet physical requirements of the BSA Annual Health & Medical Record.
September course:
9/20, 7pm-8pm online
9/25, 9am-7pm @ Frederick MD
https://scoutingevent.com/082-50510
October course:
10/11, 7pm-8pm online
10/16, 9am-7pm @ Haymarket VA
https://scoutingevent.com/082-49968
For more information, contact Dominick Caridi at dscscouting@aol.com or 703-625-4196.
Submitted by: Brett Coffee and Conor Russo.
Did you know that NESA-DC hosts free networking luncheons for local Eagle Scouts on the second Thursday of most months? NESA-DC started these lunches to meet and connect with other Eagle Scouts, and hear from fellow Eagles who are doing something interesting, noteworthy, or even extraordinary.
We’ve had astronauts, high ranking government officials, adventurers, people with careers you never knew existed, and people you never thought you’d meet. The series was started by Merritt Green and for many years was hosted in Tysons Corner, VA.
When the pandemic hit, we decided to move our luncheons to Zoom. We got a wider audience, and people didn’t have to suffer through DC traffic. More importantly, it became much easier to get really interesting speakers.
There’s no cost to join us for lunch, but you provide the lunch itself. There’s the ability to network and interact with most speakers, but we do remind you that Scouts are courteous.
The lunches begin at 12:00 pm, and you can sign up here. Conor Russo is our luncheon coordinator, and he does a great job lining up interesting speakers, moderating the discussion, and connecting the audience.
Although the lunches are free, please consider making a donation to Scouting at www.ncacbsa.org/give to help support our luncheons as well as the great Scouting experience. Who knows—you might be helping a future luncheon speaker write their story!
And if you or someone you know are interested in being a guest speaker at one of our lunches, or you have a suggestion or idea, please contact us at NESADC@NCACBSA.org.
For updates and registration on upcoming networking luncheons, follow us on Facebook, add us on LinkedIn, or check out our schedule on the National Capital Area Council’s Calendar of Events.
Council-wide Roundtable, Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
Doors open for virtual midway at 7:15pm, Roundtable starts at 7:30pm
NCAC brings back our Council-wide Roundtable to help you and your units get ready for the upcoming Scouting program year.
Even as the new program year gets started, we will help units focus on Rechartering and planning for the rest of the calendar year. The rechartering cycle has been changed, and every unit will benefit from getting the information and resources early in the process. This information is so crucial that it will be our main focus session.
Cub Scout leaders will benefit from our split session to help you organize recruiting and program resources to help your packs with our Cub Scout Relaunch.
ScoutsBSA leaders will get help with plans for getting back in the outdoors this fall and winter and how to reach out to those families that didn’t rejoin your Troop after the pandemic has eased.
We look forward to seeing everyone on August 18th.
George Costigan, Bill Desmond, and Dave Rockwell
Your NCAC Roundtable Team
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