Please join us the weekend of May 15-17 for the Shooting Sports campout! We will be travelling to Lost Pines Scout Ranch, in Bastrop. Please RSVP here on the troop website to let us know if you can come for all, part , or none of this event.  We will be doing additional planning for the campout at this Tuesday's meeting. 

If your Scout participated in either of both of the Popcorn and Greenery fundraisers, they earned Troop 511 "ScoutBux." Congratulations! The troop kept track of costs and will allow Scouts to use that work as credit against thier share of troop costs -- annual troop dues, and also summer camp registration, winter camp registration and high adventure registration fees. Check this report to see if your Scout participated, and if so, what that number is. Let our incoming Treasurer, Katherine Gross, know if you are using Scout Bux when submitting payment for a troop expense where you are using this, so that we can keep track. 

This Saturday, May 9, parents can attend University of Scouting to learn more about the Scouting program. This event will be held at the Fickett Center. While it's not required, you can order lunch as part of University of Scouting if you register by  Thursday at 5 PM. If you miss that deadline, nmo worries. You can also take your own lunch. Or you can drop in for just part of the day -- whatever works for you. Here's the schedule for the day. Here's the detailed course catalog. If you go, please tell us a bit about what you learned at the next Parents Meeting! 

Not planning to go to the Shooting Sports camput? The Wildfire Prevention Committee of the North West Austin Civic Association is doing a wildfire fuel removal event on Saturday morning, May 16, from 9 am to about noon. Are there scouts who might be able to participate in pulling out brush and debris from the Barrow Nature Preserve? They’ll be starting from the base of Stepdown Cove and branching out behind the homes around there. Register here: https://givepul.se/axu82z. (Star and Life Scouts, note that you can earn Conservation Hours!)

Scouts and their families can get discount tickets to the Round Rock Express vs. Sacramento game on Sunday, May 17, at the Dell Diamond! ! First pitch is at 1:05pm. Get tickets here.  In addition to the game, therre will be other kid-friendly things going on:

 Hello, parents! A key part of our year in Scouting is Annual Troop Program Planning. First, the Scouts meet to talk about activities that they want to have happen in the summer and coming school year. That meeting is scheduled for Saturday morning, May 9, 10AM to noon. Next, the parents will get together to start talking about how to make those activities happen (some activities may not work; that's part of the discussion). You can come into this process better informed if you take 14 minutes to complete the Scouting.org course "Annual Troop Program Planning." To do that, go to my.scouting.org > My Training > Scouts BSA > Troop Committee. You will see two groups of courses for parrents ("committee members"). "Annual Troop Program Planning" is in the second group ("Scouts BSA - Troop Committee - Position Trained").  When you are done, please consider taking other courses in the "Scouts BSA - Troop Committee" groups. The total time is about an hour and a half, and you can do this in 10–15-minute chunks. When you are done, you will understand a lot more about the Scouting program!