Boy Scout Troop 102, Rochester, MN

Calendar Update!

The Google Calendar for the Troop is now up-to-date. I have added all events as listed in the calendar that was email to the Troop, up through Summer Camp 2009.
To See the updated calendar, click here.

Philmont

Troop 102's 2008 Philmont crew has 2 openings. We would love to fill these. The trip will be Aug 2-19. We will be taking the train and hopefully doing the Taos Abominable Snowmansion and whitewater rafting. Currently the crew members are: Tim R. (Crew Leader), Evan J. (Assistant Crew Leader), Nathan R., Alex W., Daniel M., Joel N., Eli N., Peter R., Mr. N. (Adviser), and Mr. W. (Adviser). The trip will cost approximately $1000. If you are interested please talk to Tim R. or Mr. N.

Summer Camp 2007

Troop 102 went to LE Phillips for summer camp this year. Boy, did we have fun. Between nice cool weather, a great staff, those nice cabins that we slept in, and Phillips having one of the best advancement programs of the camps I've been to; all of this made it one of the best summer camps the troop has attended. Alex was elected SPL for summer camp and he did well at running the troop. Highlights of the week included: 4 mile swimmers, carving an awesome Troop 102 sign for the gateway to our campsite, chugging slushies in less than a minute, and earning lots of fun merit badges. The food was not the best but it was much more edible than last time we went to Phillips. The fishing was pretty good; Camp Phillips holds a fishing competition every week and while the winner was not from our troop, just about everyone in the troop who caught a fish caught one that was either equal in size to the winning 12.5 inch record or bigger,(Graham caught a 17 inch bass a few hours after the announcement of who had won the competition). Many in the troop seemed to think that we ought to return to Phillips next year. Wherever we go next year we will be going during the week after the 4th of July.

Big Horns '07

Troop 102 is again sending out scouts to the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. There are three crews, each with about 5-6 scouts and 2 adults. We will be departing tomorrow (7/28) and returning on the 4th of August. I (Bzandon) will be on this trek, so I will be unavailable. If there problems with the site while I am gone, mattdp will still be around. Have fun while we're gone!

Merit Badge Fair

Troop 102 participated in the Gamehaven Council Merit Badge Fair this past Saturday (March 24, 2007). The event was well attended with over 500 scouts showing up for the event plus more than 100 adults. The fair was held at Lourdes High School (who did not charge the boy scouts anything for the use of their facility). The fair offered scouts the opportunity to earn up to 2 merit badges. The merit badges offered were not only your normal "eagle-required" badges but also some rarer ones like: Medicine, Aviation, Pulp and Paper, etc. Troop 102 was represented by 24 scouts who earned a wide variety of merit badges. The event went very well in general.

Host Move

Troop-102.org will be moving servers during the next 24 hours. If all goes well, there should be no noticable difference other than the possibility of any forum post made in the next 24 hours being lost.

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New Look for Troop-102.org

Troop-102.org's look has been updated to welcome in the new year.

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Enjoy!

(p.s. If you still want to use the old theme you can, just change it to "Scouts" in Your Account.)

New SPL!

The 2007 SPL for Troop 102 is John E. He has declared that Matt P. will be one of his ASPL's. The other candidates running against him were: Matt B., Nathan R., and D.J. D. It was a very nice race with each candidate having a nice speech and good reasons for wanting to be SPL. Congrat John!

GSR Campout

Troop 102 has had it's Oct. Campout and what a campout it was. Troop members arrived around 6:00pm on Friday the 21st. Once we got back to the boy scout area, (we stayed in a little overgrown grassy area in front of the trail to our campsite), we set up the new Troop 102 tents. We had a wonderful cracker barrel and even enjoyed some chocolate cake (because of Brandon turning 16 on the 16th and Tim turning 16 on the 23rd). About 18-21 Troop 102 people were at camp at any given time. Most people stayed up late talking about various subjects around the nice little campfire we had going. The new tents were a pleasant surprise; they are 8'x10' and have a ceiling height of ~6'!! 6 of the younger scouts were in one tent! Saturday morning we woke up got breakfast, (eggs in a bag and donuts), and got to work. Mr. Jay B., a local home builder and one of the biggest contributors to GSR in terms of upgrades and improvements, came out to operate a backhoe for us. People cleared a new area and continued to enlarge (greatly) the main area. Mr. Jay B. took out all sorts of stumps with the backhoe. We had a nice lunch (including funnel cakes) and continued to work on the clearing and cleaning up of the campsite. We have 2 ginormous piles of brush in the middle of our clear areas. (Mr. Z. said we could come out during the winter and have a huge bonfire.) After finishing work we cleaned up camp and went down to the cub scout pavilion and pool. We played football and had a great time in general. Scouts left at ~6:00pm on the 21st. The troop had a great time.

Google Calendar button!

I have added a button to this page, after the calendar box, that links to the Troop's Google Calendar.