Troop 16’s Annual Picnic - Coming Soon!!!

Quick! Grab a pen and mark Tuesday, August 9th on your calendar as the day for our awesome Troop 16 Picnic. This year we are having it at the beautiful Castlewood Canyon, south on Hwy 83, past Franktown. We rented the covered pavilion, which is right next to the volleyball, horseshoe and playground areas. The troop will provide paper products, drinks, hamburgers and hotdogs. Get out your old family recipes and dazzle us with your creations - families whose last name starts with A-M, please bring a dessert and families whose last name starts with N-Z, please bring a side dish. The troop is paying for your admission to the park; watch your mailbox for a pass. Help us save money though; please carpool if possible!

ALSO, PLEASE RSVP BY SIGNING UP ONLINE, SO WE KNOW HOW MUCH FOOD TO PURCHASE. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE AND SIGN UP.

Side Note- Adults looking for a great once-a-year volunteer opportunity… Picnic coordinator position is not available anymore! Thank you David Baumgartner for volunteering for this once-a-year, pretty-darn-easy position! There are plenty of other positions available. Please consider volunteering… Remember our troop is only as awesome as WE make it!

August Campout - River Rafting Trip - Now Online

The information page and sign-up for the August Campout, which is devoted to a river rafting trip down the Upper Colorado River through scenic Glenwood Canyon is now posted online.

Sign-up closes early (on August 2, 2011) for this campout due to the reservations that need to be made.

To find out more and sign up please click here.

September Campout Sign-Up Now Online

The September Campout is devoted to camping and a headlamp cave tour in Glenwood Caverns. We will be staying on the land owned by the Caverns, and will get a free, private guided headlamp tour in small groups of about 6-7 boys and 1-2 adults.

To find out more about the caves and attractions at Glenwood Caverns, click here.

To find out more and to sign up, click here.

CPR/First Aid Certification

We owe it to ourselves and our scouts to be certified in CPR and First Aid.  Register now to get a 10% discount.  Details below!

Public CPR/AED/First Aid Class Sale until July 27th! Register online!

Locations: Centennial and Parker
Offered By South Metro Safety Foundation

More Info 10% Discount on our public CPR Classes, register online at www.southmetrofoundation.org from July 19th to July 27th.

Adult Leader Training - Every Scout Deserves a Trained Leader

Are you trained for your current Scout position?  Take advantage of the numerous scheduled training courses and visit the online learning center at www.myscouting.org.

For a complete list of training courses scheduled in all districts, click here.  To access the BSA online learning center, click here.  To find out what training is required for your current Scouting position, click here.

2011 Family Picnic Update

The online sign-up is now available. Please sign up to RSVP to attend the annual Family Picnic. We’ll see you there!

Flag Retirement Ceremony on 7/12

Taylor F. will be hosting a Flag Retirement Ceremony on July 12th beginning promptly at 6:15 PM (before the regular Troop meeting at PUMC). Boy Scouts of America is one of only three organizations that can retire a flag. This is a great opportunity to participate in one of these ceremonies, particularly for first year scouts. This ceremony is open to everyone in the troop including adults.

Swim Checks & First Class Trail swim requirements

A swim check is required for everyone going to summer camp (scouts and adults).  This is also required if you doing any water activities with the troop throughout the year.  This is an ANNUAL test.  The troop has arranged to meet at Parker Rec Center on Sunday, June 19^th.  Please arrive between 2:00 and 2:45pm.   It is a fast test and should only take 15-20 minutes.  Tell them you are with Troop 16 for a discount on the admission price.

Yours in Scouting,

Mrs. Denton

Community Service Opportunity

Double Angel Foundation is looking for a few volunteers to help out during Victorian Peaks 5K/10K Race on July 4, 2011 for a few hours in the morning.  These community service hours can be used for rank advancement, high school graduation requirements or for a Citizenship in the Community merit badge requirement.  Please call Mrs. Dunkel at 303/841-2420 (Double Angel Foundation) to volunteer.

Astronomy Links

If it wasn’t enough for Dennis and Cheryl Ward to come down from Erie and give a presentation on Astronomy and Citizen Science, they’ve sent along links for some of the software and information they used.  A number of the Scouts were asking for where they could get this kind of info and where they can find the planetarium software the Wards used.  Here it is.  And, thanks again to them for coming.

Planetarium software Dennis used during the presentation:

• http://www.stellarium.org/

Web sites that allow you to be part of astronomical science and discoveries:

• http://www.zooniverse.org/ - galaxies, moon, planets, etc..
• http://www.windows2universe.org/citizen_science/starcount/
• http://www.darkskiesawareness.org/gan.php
• http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.php
• http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Virtual tours of Astronomical Observatories:

• http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/mthopkins/obstours.html

Watch live imagery through professional scale telescopes:

• http://www.slooh.com/