Upcoming Events!

Committee Meeting Reminder!  Sunday Sept 11, 6:00 p.m. Scouts, 7:00 p.m. adults at Bagley Hall.  Committee members and parents come one, come all!  If you have a scout in a leadership position then they should arrive at 6:00 p.m. to plan for the month's meetings. 

Hessel!  Planning is already underway for the Hessel camping trip September 16-18.  The theme is "On the Beach!"  Please let your senior patrol leader know if you are planning to attend.

Robotics Merit Badge: Let's build some robots!  There is a teacher at the Petoskey High School who is a merit badge counselor for Robotics.  He has a Robotics Club at 3:30-5:00 p.m. on Mondays starting any time after the first of October.  He's invited us to participate in his club with the high school students.  This may involve leaving school early on Monday for a few visits to the club in Petoskey.  We may be able to change the time to 5pm-6:30 for a couple visits if we have enough interested boys.  Julia Bushong will be creating a blog of our adventure in Robotics.  In exchange for the blog, the robot company has donated 2 robots to our troop to be used for this merit badge.  You do not have to buy a robot to complete this badge as we will share these two robots. 
Those interested in earning the Robotics merit badge should contact Julia Bushong, jbushonghome@charter.net.  Please review the merit badge requirements prior to signing up to make sure that you have interest in completing the badge.
See this link for the merit badge details.  http://usscouts.org/mb/mb146.asp
For those interested in purchasing their own robot, please see this link: http://www.scoutstuff.org/ollo-bug-robot-kit.html  This is the robot that will be featured in the blog that and this is the robot that Boy Scouts of America recommends for this badge. 

One of our scouts, Benjamin Bushong has already earned the Robotics merit badge.  You can view his robot presentation online and rate it!  So far he has a 3 star rating!  Support him and give him your rating! He is using the Ollo Bug, recommended by BSA for this badge. You can view it at this link:  Link to Ben's robot video