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Mr. Adam Birnbaum, our troop's merit badge chair, is away on vacation from July 30th to August 11th and will not be attending our first two meetings of the month.  He asks that you get with him prior to July 28th if you need blue cards or to get lined up with a counselor in August.

Scouts and families

I hope you all are enjoying summer break and some well-deserved down time.  The troop has remained busy despite the break from meetings as we had our Camp Shenandoah crew return on July 2nd with one of the biggest summer camp groups in troop history!  We also have our first Philmont crew on the trail right now and they summited Mount Baldy today (Monday) at over 12,000 feet - wow!  The National Jamboree starts this week and our NCAC troop is ready to go with several of our scouts joining in - congratulations to Harlan Earhart, Owen Hogeboom, Josh Pryor, and Andrew Zagurski for representing Troop 1345! Five of our scouts are also attending National Youth Leadership Training from 30 July to 4 August to get ready for new positions of responsibility this fall.  Finally, our August crew for Philmont is working hard to finish their preparations and is also looking forward to a great trek in New Mexico next month.

A huge portion of the success with Troop's leadership development for our Scouts is via our proactive participation in NCAC National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT).  Below is the NCAC schedule with one Winter training opportunity and three Summer Training opportunities.  If you click the winter REGISTER NOT below it will take you to the NCAC website to register.

Winter

Fairfax County's Parktakes program offers various merit badge classes.  See the attached link for more information:

http://parktakes.fairfaxcounty.gov/rev1_browseresult.asp?category=SCOUT+...

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