All hands on deck! Scouts, please be sure to come to our next meeting on Oct 14! We will build fires, eat smores and likely play a game with visitors from Pack 49. If there's a fellow Scout from Troop 511 you haven't seen in a while, give them a call and ask them to come help us welcome the Arrow of Light/Webelos of Pack 49! Parents, we will have a Parents Committee Meeting that night, so please plan to stay! 

Scouting Adventure Weekend is coming up Oct 17-19! While we are not sending the whole troop, we would love to have a few 511 Scouts participate. At Scouting Adventure Weekend, BSA Scouts will work with Cub Scouts on an activity and can participate in shooting skills work themselves. Cubs will be working on adventures for their rank, meeting older scouts and improving their shooting range skills. This is an opportunity to meet scouts in other units. OA callout is planned for Saturday evening. Bring your favorite recipe for the dutch oven cooking contest. Registration for Armadillo Scouting Adventure Weekend closes Sunday Oct 12 at 11:59 PM. 

Sign up to do a good turn that's also going to be a lot of fun! Sign up to help cook hot dogs at First Presbyterian (just down the road from St Matt's) on Sunday Oct 26!

For Winter Camp this year, we are heading to Camp Karankawa, down near Corpus Christi. We will arrive midday on Dec 27 and leave midday on Dec 30. This is a great chance to knock out a few merit badges over winter break, and we expect it to be shorts-and-t-shirt weather down on the coast. RSVP on the troop calendar.  Questions? Talk to Mr. Hokanson and Mr. Barnett! 

Do you need one of these merit badges (starred are Eagle-required):

• Citizenship in the Nation *
• Citizenship in the World *
• Environmental Science *
• Radio
• Signs, Signals, and Codes
• Soil and Water Conservation
• Sustainability *

If yes, you may want to participate in JOTA-JOTI at Fickett Center on Sat Oct 18. If you are interested in earning the JOTA-JOTI Award, there are additional activities you can do virtually.

Next summer, Lost Pines will host a special four-day Eagle Academy session for Scouts ages 15-17. Over the four days of the Eagle Academy (July 7-10), they will have 4 merit badge sessions each day. In the evenings, they will offer special Eagle Project planning and advising sessions, to help Scouts get a proposal ready to bring back to the troop. Registration is open now!