New Scout Weekend
May 2- 4, 2025
Main Event Saturday, May 3rd
For Scouts By Scouts
Who's included:
• New Scouts BSA who who are working on Scout thru 1st Class rank advancement (Program Attendees).
• Scouts BSA troop youth and adult leadership and members (Instructors).
- You must camp at Glen Gray to participate.
Here's how it works:
- Each troop selects a skill to teach to the new Scouts from this list: new_sout_weekend_provisional_skill_session_021424.pdf
- Senior Scouts in each Troop, with the requisite adult supervision, teach the skill to the younger Scouts using the E.D.G.E (Explain, Guide, Demonstrate, Enable) Method (Page 38 in the Scout Handbook)
- The troop sends their new Scouts, with their patrol leader, to the skill stations in a round robin format.
- The New Scouts patrol checklist will be signed by the instructors of the sessions they visit as evidence that the Scouts have participated in the applicable skills session.
- Final sign-off of advancement skills will by done by the unit leaders at the Troop level outside the event following Scouts BSA requirements.
- Each Troop must make an on-line camping reservation by clicking the button below.
- Troops request the skill they would like to teach (1st, 2nd and 3rd choices)
Fees - $8 event fee per new scout.
Tent, lean-to and cabin camping fees are extra. See Campsites and Cabins above for details.
Check In: - Friday, May 2nd 4pm to 8pm; check-out Sunday, May 4th, before noon.
Questions?: check the overview friends_of_glen_gray_new_scout_weekend_overview_2024.pdf
