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Welcome
to the Troop 368
Troop 368 is located in Algonquin Illinois. Our
chartering organization is Light of Christ Church. We meet
every Monday evening from 7:00PM to 8:00PM. During the school
year we meet at Neubert Elementary School. During the summer months
we meet at various locations around the community.
Check out our new photo-gallery....this should make
it easier for me to keep our photos up to date...Mr.S
Summer Camp:
Sunday - July 6 They made it to camp safely. No details but I got a message from Mr. Barrios saying that
they had arrive safely at camp this afternoon. I don't know if or when
I will talk to them but if I do, I'll post details here.
Monday... here are a few photos from Mr. A who did a one day turnaround
(click on thumbnail to view)
Monday afternoon. I got a call from Mr.
Barrios. He said that camp was great and all were having fun.
There was a touch of rain overnight on Sunday but it was clear by the
morning. Weather report calls for night time temps in the low
50's and daytime highs in the low 70's. Slight chance of scattered
showers on Thu/Friday but pretty much PERFECT WEATHER!!!
Saturday -
We are back. A great time was had by everyone. Watch here
for photos. If you have photos to share let me know.
Maquoketa Caves March 28-30 Troop
368 went to Maquoketa Caves near Maquoketa, Iowa. We got there at 10PM. It
was dark and they had to set up their tents, with their only light being the
moon, and a couple flashlights. In the morning, the troop went out to the
caves. Matt Johnson said, “in one cave, you were pretty much swimming in the
cave because it was almost flooded. Another was so high, that most scouts
had to be lifted up, just to see inside! It probably got down to 20oF at
night. People were pushing and being pushed into the water. It was very
muddy at Maquoketa caves, and Tim Laubenstein got the muddiest award.” The
troop left at 9 AM and got back home at 1PM Sunday.
Scout Day at Chicago Wolves Hockey March 30 Immediately
upon our return from Maquoketa, some of us got cleaned up and left for our
second troop activity of the weekend.. Scout day at the Chicago Wolves
Hockey Game.
February 23/ March 1 2008 - Scouting for Food Scouting
for Food (S.F.F.), was on two separate Saturdays. The first day, we passed
out 147 bags with a note attached to it around the neighborhood surrounding
Light of Christ Church.
On the second Saturday, we
picked up all the bags loaded with non-perishable items. We counted the
items, and tried to deliver them to the F.I.S.H. food pantry in
Carpentersville but they were closed. Mr.. Torres volunteered to deliver all
the food on the following Monday. We collected 327 items in all!
January 26-27, 2008 - U.S.S Cobia U.S.S.
Cobia is a submarine, preserved at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in
Manitowoc, WI. We spent one night in the submarine. It was a 4 hour trip up,
and we only made one stop, but it was worth it. There was a Cub Scout pack
with us. When we got up there, we went to a pizza and arcade place just
across the street. In the museum toured the submarine and watched a movie
about the U.S.S Cobia. We viewed and entered the torpedo tubes. After that
we acted out a drill when an enemy is spotted and we had to dive (not
really) and rise back up. Later, we chose our sleeping quarters, and some
people were lucky enough to get a captain's quarters while others had to
sleep in the torpedo rooms, and loaded their stuff into it. Everyone (except
Mr. Barrios) watched another movie in the Museum. At 2:00 AM we
"accidentally" woke up Mr. Barrios reentering the submarine to sleep. We
woke up at 7:30 AM and went to the gift shop for 1 HOUR! We
finally left and went to McDonald's for breakfast. We got back home at 2:00
PM, and for once we arrived home early just in time for the Super bowl.
January 26, 2008 - Klondike
Derby Troop
368 participated in this year's, Klondike derby in McHenry. It was cold and
there was snow. Three sleds participated in the events, under the flags of
the Flying Squirrels, Great Goats, and Mustangs. We loaded our stuff into
the sleds, and went to the events. There were many events including
Iditarod, fire building, Frisbee golf, log cutting, "snake" throw, any many,
many more events. We had a warm lunch of hot dogs, soup, chili, and hot
chocolate. Some scouts even went sledding. Next, we did more events. At the
end of the day, we were exhausted, but it was fun!
Older Activities
In order to make the site load faster I've moved details of
our older activities to another page.
Click here to see them. Can't
remember what we did when???? Here are some of our older calendars.
We need Merit Badge Counselors !! Earning Merit Badges is an
exciting and important part of the scouting experience.
Before a scout can start working on a Merit Badge he needs two things:
a merit badge card signed by his Scoutmaster and a Merit Badge Counselor.
The Merit Badge Counselor's role is to guide and review the work that the
boys do and insure that they satisfy the requirements of the badge. For more
information about what merit badge counselors do
click here.
The process of becoming a merit badge counselor is as easy as 1-2-3.
First, select subject areas that you would feel comfortable teaching or
counseling (click
here for list). Second, complete the merit badge counselor
application form (click
here for the form). Third, if you are not a registered adult
member of BSA you will need to fill out an adult registration form (click
here for the form). Oh...I guess there is a fourth thing.....drop
the completed forms in the troop mailbox.
Scoutmaster Conferences & Boards of Review...Change of
Policy
As our troop has grown it is getting difficult to spend enough time with
our boys during Scoutmaster conferences and boards of review at our Monday
meetings. These are important parts of the scout
experience and rank advancement and we want to do them justice. As
such, we would like to make a some changes in the way that we schedule them.
Our first choice is to do Scoutmaster conferences and boards of review
during our troop activities (campouts, etc). This way we can
spend as much time as we need with the scouts.
Scouts can contact Mr. Barrios and Mr. Soldner to set up times outside
of our normal meetings and activities for conferences and boards of
review.
We will continue doing conferences and boards at our Monday meetings
but we will limit that to one at each meeting. Mr. Barrios will
keep a list of all of the boys who want Monday conferences on his calendar
and we will take them on a first in - first out basis..
As Star, Life, and Eagle conferences take more time, we would ask
those Scouts to try to use one of the first two options above if at all
possible.
In addition, to this, we are going to set a cut-off date of two weeks
before Court of Honor for all advancement to be complete and signed off in
order to give us time to get all of the paperwork complete and the badges
purchased.
Join Our Electronic Mailing List
Can't find that permission slip that supposedly came home from
the scout meeting? Don't remember when or where the next
event is? When is the money due for scout camp? When can
we start selling popcorn? We will try to post the
answers to all of those questions on this web site but in today's busy world I often
appreciate an email reminder. If you are the same sign up for the Troop 368 mailing list.
No....this
is not an automated service and we will not
spam you with tons of unwanted mail. I will drop
a periodic note to everyone on the mailing list to remind them of critical activities or dates for the
troop. If you would like to get on the mailing list
click
here and send us a note from the email account that you would like us
to use. Include scout's name in the text of the message as it is
sometimes hard to identify you from your email address. This list will not be shared with anybody
else and will only be used by troop leadership for communications on troop business.
Send Us Your Photos & Stories
We are preparing a troop photo album. If you have pictures of any
of our activities we would love to include them. You can email
them to scouting@troop368.com
. If you don't have digital photos bring the hard copies to one of
our meetings and I will scan them in. If you have a lot
of digital photos you can burn them on a disk and bring them to a meeting.
Scouts....would
you like to write a story and see it published on the web? I
am looking for stories to go along with the photos of our troop
activities. If you write it I will help you post it to the
web. This fulfils one of the requirements for the Communications Merit
Badge.
Welcome
to the Troop 368
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Troop
368 went to Maquoketa Caves near Maquoketa, Iowa. We got there at 10PM. It
was dark and they had to set up their tents, with their only light being the
moon, and a couple flashlights. In the morning, the troop went out to the
caves. Matt Johnson said, “in one cave, you were pretty much swimming in the
cave because it was almost flooded. Another was so high, that most scouts
had to be lifted up, just to see inside! It probably got down to 20oF at
night. People were pushing and being pushed into the water. It was very
muddy at Maquoketa caves, and Tim Laubenstein got the muddiest award.” The
troop left at 9 AM and got back home at 1PM Sunday.
Immediately
upon our return from Maquoketa, some of us got cleaned up and left for our
second troop activity of the weekend.. Scout day at the Chicago Wolves
Hockey Game.
Scouting
for Food (S.F.F.), was on two separate Saturdays. The first day, we passed
out 147 bags with a note attached to it around the neighborhood surrounding
Light of Christ Church. 
U.S.S.
Cobia is a submarine, preserved at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in
Manitowoc, WI. We spent one night in the submarine. It was a 4 hour trip up,
and we only made one stop, but it was worth it. There was a Cub Scout pack
with us. When we got up there, we went to a pizza and arcade place just
across the street. In the museum toured the submarine and watched a movie
about the U.S.S Cobia. We viewed and entered the torpedo tubes. After that
we acted out a drill when an enemy is spotted and we had to dive (not
really) and rise back up. Later, we chose our sleeping quarters, and some
people were lucky enough to get a captain's quarters while others had to
sleep in the torpedo rooms, and loaded their stuff into it. Everyone (except
Mr. Barrios) watched another movie in the Museum. At 2:00 AM we
"accidentally" woke up Mr. Barrios reentering the submarine to sleep. We
woke up at 7:30 AM and went to the gift shop for 1 HOUR! We
finally left and went to McDonald's for breakfast. We got back home at 2:00
PM, and for once we arrived home early just in time for the Super bowl.
Troop
368 participated in this year's, Klondike derby in McHenry. It was cold and
there was snow. Three sleds participated in the events, under the flags of
the Flying Squirrels, Great Goats, and Mustangs. We loaded our stuff into
the sleds, and went to the events. There were many events including
Iditarod, fire building, Frisbee golf, log cutting, "snake" throw, any many,
many more events. We had a warm lunch of hot dogs, soup, chili, and hot
chocolate. Some scouts even went sledding. Next, we did more events. At the
end of the day, we were exhausted, but it was fun!
