MAC Troop 90

Wolverines

Boy Scout Eagle Project

by David Siebert

The rank of Eagle Scout is the highest rank that a boy scout can reach. Only about 2% of boy scouts reach this final rank. After all of the hard work, badges, and rank advancements, the final lap of the race to Eagle Scout is the Eagle Scout Project. The project is a task that the future eagle scout chooses that will help a person, group of people or a cause. The project must be approved before it can started. First the project must get approved by a scout master, then by the local boy scout council, finally by your discrict chair. You must also get the permission of someone who could allow you to do the project. After the project is approved the project can began. Then the scout must organize when the project will be done and find people to help work on the project. Once the project is completed the scout must get the project signed off, and then wait on his eagle board of review. After all of that the scout is finally an eagle scout.

http://www.eaglescout.org/project/approve.html

Camp Cedars Summer Camp by Brent Pitkin

Each summer the Boy Scouts of Troop 90 among other troops in the area attend a week long summer camp to earn different merit badges at Camp Cedars. While at Cedars scouts get classes throughout the day helping them achieve their different badges that they signed up for prior to the camp. Cedars has many activities that scouts can partake in such as horseback riding, rock wall climbing, star gazing, canoeing as well as having fun at the pool. For third year scouts you get the chance to become a tribesman in the Nani-Ba-Zu, which is a tribe at Camp Cedars that tries to better instill the Scout Law and Oath into the scouts.

For more information on Camp Cedars and the Nani-Ba-Zu visit: http://mac-bsa.org/camp_info.aspx?ID=2

BSA turns 100

by Mitch Anderson

Boy Scouts of America will be celebrating its hundredth anniversary this February! Boy Scouts was started by Robert Baden-Powell in England in 1907. In 1909 William D. Boyce, an American visiting England, was helped to find a business office in the center of the city by a British Boy Scout who wouldn't accept a tip for his services. Boyce was extremely impressed by the boy and when he returned to America, he brought scouting with him. On February 8, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was founded. Pictured to the right is Brownsea Island where Baden-Powell held his first scout camp in England. For more information on the Boy Scouts 100 year anniversary, visit http://scouting.org/100years/100years/