New leader Training has been scheduled for April 4th 9am to 1pm at the Birch Street Fire Station. All den leaders and committee members are encouraged to attend. Please contact Bruce at 645-7665 you plan on attending.

Here is the google link if it works for you.

Meet at the parking area off the cul de sac at the trail head. This is a nice hike to a nice waterfall with potential for an even more fun follow-up hike if any scout is willing to do some research on the history of the area.

W II = make up a patrol/den name. (prep for boy scouts)

6:30 - 6:45 gather - read (parents have the youth protection part in front of Webelos book, kids can read the requirements and talk with parents about the character connections)

6:45 - 6:50 Opening Ceremony (pledge then cubscout promise

6:50 - 7:05 Round table on character connections, #2 "what it means to be be ...fit"

7:00 - 7:30 time activities, fill the 'start' entries on the forms

7:30 - 7:35 get commitment to practice and show improvement

7:35 - 7:45 Talk about badge requirements and explain fitness and citizen are required (outdoorsman/readyman for WII). Have WI commit to reading their fitness section by next week. Have WII commit to reading and preparint for Outdoorsmen.

7:45 - 7:55 Announcements: Troop 2 to visit next week, remind about campout, parade(carry flags if we are participating) Lego league

Supplies:
- * Troop 2 camp-out fliers
- tape measure
- GPS for distance (run with them first time)
- Athlete den meeting plan
- next meeting flier (include progress on Athlete items)

Check out this MIT Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction

First Lego League Team pages.

Meetings are at Bill G's garage Saturday from 1:00 - 3:00

Welcome to the Pack 221 sponsored First Lego League team pages. Our first team will only be for Webelos, per FLL rules.

There is actually a league for the younger boys too: Junior First Lego League. Currently we have no Pack sponsored teams for JFLL.

Check out this page for some helpful tips...in particular the Programming Tips one has some good solid common sense advice.

This site has some nice tutorials: Oregon Robotics Tournaments and Outreach Program

NXT hacking

Looking for other languages/software tools for NXT? Try this wikipedia entry.

Page of interesting links:

extremenxt lego links

Another hacking site. This article was in Servo Magazine.

One place where you can buy parts:

robotstorehk.com

Ohhh...nice site here: NXT Programs

Another source of sensors from a Lego partner:

http://www.legoeducation.com/vernier

An awesome source of a wide variety of parts: www.peeron.com

With a campout coming up, we can prepare to complete the outdoorsman badge before this overnighter?

Requirement
Nnotes

1,2,5
Before our campout, bring your camping gear dressed to camp and prepared to show and tell about your camping gear. Be ready to unpack, repack and demontrate how you will carry it.

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Today is the deadline to sign up for the POW WOW in November.

For full details, see the POW WOW website.