Things to do at this week's troop meeting...  SM Conference?  BoR?  Sign up on the troop website.  Update your Scoutbook record for the upcoming CoH?  BRING YOUR HANDBOOK, and see Mrs. Brosnan.  Attending Brannan Island Car Camping and Conservation Service?  Come prepared for your PACK CHECK and Patrol assignments!  Hear about JUST ADDED events and outings!
Troop 216 has many activities going on, and you don't want to miss out!

Are you an 8th grader or above, and interested in finding out if there is one fundamental rule that explains how matter and forces interact?  Earn your NUCLEAR SCIENCE MB at the upcoming 12th Annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts on November 9th, 8AM-5PM.  Location is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (This is the same weekend as at Troop Outing.). If interested please sign up on the troop website as soon as possible, so that the troop can form a group of 5 scouts and 1 adult to attend!

Michele Long is co-hosting a Citizenship in Society Merit Badge in-person session Sunday, September 29, at the Long Household in Alamo from 3PM to 5PM and there is currently room for additional scouts. This Merit Badge is required for Eagle Scout. Currently, completion sessions for this Merit Badge are mostly Zoom, usually 2 sessions of 2-3 hours each- this is a single, in-person 2-hour session option.  Prep for this Merit Badge is predominantly individual pre-work reviewing topics for understanding and applying principles to complete the requirements; it also includes one required interview by the scout of a fellow scout and one optional interview by the scout of a leader/role model (to be done prior to the meeting).  Scouts do the pre-work and come to the session, and at the session scouts discuss each of their requirement answers among the group (similar to online session format.)

If interested, scouts should sign-up via standard pathway and let Michele Long know at metterbeek@gmail.com so she can alert leadership that  the scouts would like to be placed in the Alamo September session.;

September 28th at the Solano County Fairgrounds. The troop attends Advance Camp for one day; it provides scouts with an opportunity to work on Trailhead rank advancement requirements, start or complete merit badge requirements begun at another scout event / summer camp and or make contact with a merit badge counselor to work on / complete a merit badge in the future.

SIGN UP on the Troop website and make your registration payment TODAY! Registration opened on June 1st, and the Regular fee is $100 payable to Troop 216. In past, popular Eagle merit badges filled up quickly, so it is best to register early.

Troop 216 relies on their trained adults for all of the outings offered to the scouts.  Please check out the upcoming training sessions, and become a Trained Adult!  New adults should take Intro to Outdoor Leader Skills Training Part #1 and #2.  Adults leading Summer High Adventures should take Wilderness First Aid and specific trainings for that high adventure (listed on their website).

The troop has two service projects on the calendar; sign up and earn Community Service Hours.   Autos of Alamo Festival Clean Up, Sept. 5th, 8-9:30PM, at the Alamo Plaza.  Yosemite Service Project and Car Camping. Fri, October 18th - Sun, October 20th.  Yosemite Valley, volunteer campground.  This has limited space - Scouts get priority.  Sign up TODAY!