Welcome to Troop 61
Milwaukee, WI
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Calendar 2024
Mar 2025
14 Robotics Merit Badge(tentative)
15 (SAT) Scouting for Food - Pick up
21 Robotics Merit Badge
28 Open Advancement
Apr 2025
4 Open Advancement
11 Pancake Breakfest Prep
13 (Palm Sunday) Pancake Breakfest
18 (Good Friday) No Meeting
25
May 2025
June 2025
July 2025
19-26 Jag Lake Summer Camp
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Scouting for Food — March 8th, 15th
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March 8- Distribute door hangers 9am -11 am
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March 15 Pick up food 9am - 11am
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Starting at the Scouthouse each of the days
Scouting for Food is a nationwide food drive program of the Boy Scouts of America. It involves Scouts collecting non-perishable food items for local food banks and assistance agencies. The program takes place on two consecutive weekends, when Scouts distribute and collect bags or door hangers from their neighbors. The program aims to help the less fortunate and the food insecure, especially children. All food collected will be sent to the MGC Food pantry so it will stay local.
March 8th -We have a large area and will need a great deal of help placing out flyers to all the houses. With enough help we can get our areas done in about 2 hours at the most. We need drivers and scouts to help and all hours from the Drop off day and the Pick up day will go towards your service hours if you need them for Rank Advancement.
March 15th - We need a few drivers and scouts to run and grab bags from the areas that we placed all flyers at. Usually it only takes an hour with a few drivers. The 2nd shift will recover the areas in the afternoon so that no bag will be missed.
Robotics Merit badge - Homework
Well, first, thank you Scott from Tosa Block Party for spending his free time to come and help teach the kids about robotics and let them have a good time with the lego robots. With his help we got almost all of the requirements done. There are two requirements left that need to be completed.
6. Competitions. Do ONE of the following.
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(a) Attend a robotics competition and report to your counselor what you saw and learned about the competition and how teams are organized and managed.
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(b) Learn about three youth robotics competitions. Tell your counselor about these, including the type of competition, time commitment, age of the participants, and how many teams are involved.
7. Careers. Name three career opportunities in robotics. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.
Once both of these are done and discussed with the Robotics Merit badge instructor then the Scout/s will have earned the badge. These requirements need to be done on the Scouts own free time. Something to help out for Requirement 6a and have a good time also. FIRST Robotics Competition Wisconsin Regional – Wisconsin State Fair Park April 4-6th.
April 13th - Pancake Breakfast 10:30-1:30
Spread the word as our Pancake Breakfast is back. We are excited that it's time again for our famous pancakes and coffee to Mother of Good Counsel Church. This is a large event that requires the effort of everyone of the Troop.
Please bring your friends and family to this event and spend some time sitting down, having a warm breakfast and enjoy the meal. Scouts should be in full Class A uniform and be ready to serve.
$5 gets all you can eat pancakes.
March 22nd 2pm-3pm - Parent meeting (Saturday)
It's time for the Troop 61 parent meeting. All parents of current Troop 61 scouts should attend. This is a chance for the Scoutmaster to talk to parents about what activities are coming up, help that is needed with upcoming events and get ideas for new activities. Parents can also discuss the current activities and what can be improved. Please put the date on your calendar to attend. Location will be at the Scouthouse.
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High Adventure - Summer 2026
It's been a while but we are going to be restarting the High Adventure program. For those who don't know about the High Adventure Trip, or H.A.T as it can be referred to, is a Trip to a selected destination where the boys can put some skills to the test but enough sights, experiences, and stories. More details will be coming in the next couple weeks as we will be having a meeting after the normal Scout meeting to discuss the possible trips. .
The requirements to go on the Trip are as follows. 1. GOING into High School by Summer 2026. Ex. graduating 8th grade and going to Tosa East. 2. A Star Scout at min by Summer 2026. 3. Achieved 2 Rank advancements in 2 years or until the Trip. Start date is Summer Camp 2024 until Summer Camp 2025 and Summer Camp 2025- High Adventure Trip.
When we announce the meeting, any Scout who will be eligible that is going into High School by Summer 2026 is welcome and should join us to know what is going on and Parents are required to be at that meeting also. Watch the Ebuggle for more information.
Pinewood Derby Car
Building Day
Need help building a Cub Scout pinewood derby car?
BSA Troop 61's pinewood derby car build day is being held January 18, 2025 from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. This is a free workshop for Cub Scouts! With help from our expert car builders, Cub Scouts will have the opportunity to:
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select a body style of their choice from one of our tried and true template designs.
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cut their weight pocket.
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cut out and sand their car body.
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polish their car axles.
When Cub Scouts leave the workshop, the only thing left for them to do is paint and final assembly. Then it is off to the races!! For more information and to sign up for time slots.