Sep 24

Green Machine

Have you seen how great our bus looks with its new paint job? Our troop transportation used to look like a bus for hauling convicts, now it truly looks worthy of carrying Boy Scouts.

The new bus look would not have been possible without the help and organization of many volunteers that we would like to thank.

  • Steve Aspery and Gary Meyer really took the lead on getting this done
  • Bill Alsnauer recruited the necessary help
  • All of the BSA365 scouts helped prep for the paint during a Monday night scout meeting
  • Jamie Prosser
  • Steve Kirk
  • Steve Bailey
  • Lisa Aspery
  • Randy Reeves
  • Keith Stimpert
  • Tim Hamner
  • Brad Bolon
  • Todd Rittenhouse
  • Bob  Hoffman
  • If you helped and your name isn’t on the list, we thank you as well!

We are looking for Bus Drivers…  wouldn’t you like to drive this Green Machine?

 

Sep 17

Personal Management Merit Badge Clinic – October 13

What: Earning the Personal Management badge is about learning how to map a plan for your life that will involve setting short-range and long-range goals and investigating different ways to reach those goals. Education, training, and experience all help make your goals become a reality. To achieve your goals, you will choose the best path and make a commitment to it, while remaining flexible enough to deal with changes and new opportunities. This merit badge is required to obtain the rank of Eagle Scout.

There are only 30 openings for this workshop, register today!

Where: 807 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43210, US

When: Saturday, October 13, 2012; 10am – 2pm

Cost: Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Fifth Third Bank, this event is FREE!

Bring: Lunch will be provided. Scouts must complete as many prerequisites as they can prior to attending this workshop. Scouts must also bring their Personal Management merit badge books with them.

Merit Badge Clinic Flyer
Register for Merit Badge Clinic

Sep 04

Aviation Merit Badge Clinic – September 29


Please contact Matt Williams (614.527.5238) by September 22nd if you would like to sign up. Pre-registration is required for this event.

What: Aviation merit badge clinic. Youth Aviation Adventure (YAA) is a fast paced single day event, held at an airport near you, for kids age 12 to 18 and Boy Scouts of all ages. At a YAA program you will visit 10 different stations to learn about different facets of aviation. Scouts can earn the Aviation merit badge by attending and completing the pre-test prior to the event.

Where: OSU – Don Scott Airport, 2160 W. Case Rd, Columbus, OH

When: Saturday, September 29, 2012; 8:30am – 2:30pm; We will meet at the airport, be there promptly at 8:30am for registration.

Cost: $5.00 (cash or check made out to BSA Troop 365)

Bring:

  • Scouts should bring a sack lunch and a drink, a 1/2 hour break will be provided for lunch.
  • Completed Pre-Test signed by Jerry Roderick and graded by Matt Williams. This is required to complete the Aviation merit badge.

You must attend the entire time (you cannot leave for a soccer game for part of the program) to complete the merit badge and receive your blue card. Parents are not required to stay, but are very welcome. Anybody that stays must pay the registration fee.

Please read the FAQ document
Please download the Participant Guide

Aug 27

A note to Scouting families in BSA 365, from Michael Hock

A note to Scouting families in BSA 365, from Michael Hock

As you may have learned at last evening’s wonderful Summer Kick-off Dinner and Court of Honor, Bill Alsnauer has agreed to serve as our next Committee Chair. I have ended my role as Committee Chair, which became effective this past June.

For over ten years, I’ve served our Scouts, their families, our Church and our Scouting community as Committee Chair of Boy Scout Troop 365. I’ve had the backup of my bride, Linda Crawford-Cloud, for that whole time, and for the years before.

I’ve loved the commitment I’ve shared with Scouts and adults, the service we’ve accomplished, the fun we’ve had, the places we’ve gone, the advancement of so many boys developing to men imbued with the values of Boy Scouting.

As I’ve moved aside, our committee has worked well in responding to this transition, on which I’d been planning and working for over a year. I will remain on the Committee, available to help our new Committee Chair with whatever he needs that he’s not getting as he moves our Troop forward.

I’m personally proud that Bill Alsnauer has agreed to serve as our Committee Chair, as I remember recruiting Bill to be an Assistant Scoutmaster, over coffee at Scotties (or whatever it was called) now many years ago. There haven’t been many Committee Chairs in our Troop, and we’ve tended to be long-lived. Hopefully, long-lived enough to create a strong institution, not as long-lived as to become stuffed and mounted in the corner. Bill’s leadership will be strong, and I hope long-lived.

We’ve accomplished some significant changes during the past year, and the results delight me. I’ve felt really good to see boys take a new hold on Scouting: seeing our boy-led indoor program format get underway; seeing adults delighted as they watched boy-led events; seeing our boy-led Patrol Leaders’ Council do event planning they owned. I’ve felt really good seeing many Troop adults willing to back up boys in their patrols. We were able to see a cadre of trained, direct-contact adults in place for Rechartering. And you’ve seen it every Monday night, an exceptional and committed Scoutmaster at the helm. Wow, I recruited him, too!

Thanks for all the support.  And please give Bill that same measure of support, as he’ll be a great Committee Chair. For me, I’m able now to spend more time with boys in our program. I hope you’re planning to come along for the ride, Scouting 365 Days a Year.