Service is a hallmark of Scouting - but it can have challenges. Where can you find opportunities for a wide age range? How do you log your hours and record them for BSA and the Atlanta Area Council to track the good turns you're out there doing? How and when do you participate in Scouting's national effort: Scouting for Food? We have answers!

Three unique field trips coming up for your Scouts! Orienteering at BASC on Feb. 26. Scout Day at the Georgia Capitol is March 1. This event will usually sell out and costs just $1 to register your Scout. Contact your school admin. to see if this counts as an excused absence (it often does). Porsche merit badge clinic (for Scouts and Venturers age 14+) will be March 18 AND 25 (2 part course) - and proceeds from registration fees support the Council's Campership fund!

Mark your calendars!  Button Gwinnett's District Day Camp has been scheduled for June 12-16, 2017.  Attached below is a save-the-date flyer for Button Gwinnett's Day Camp.  Also, attached are 2 flyers with the 2017 dates for all the day camps in the Atlanta Area Council.

Troop 846 (Button Gwinnett District - Duluth) is looking for 3 Boys Scouts and 1 adult who would be interested in joining them at BSA's Florida Sea Base, located in the Florida Keys.  The troop  was awarded the opportunity to send two 6-scout crews to BSA’s Florida Sea Base, and our adventure is the Coral Reef Sailing Adventure, which is a 7 day/6 night experience.  Our troop is filling 9 of the 12 available scout slots and have 3 leaders committed to the trip (all adult training for both crews completed; additional adult would only be required to have YPT).  Unfortunately, the other troop which was planning to join us recently pulled out of the trip, leaving our second boat missing 3 scouts and 1 adult.

Wood Badge is considered the premier leadership training course for Scout Leaders of all levels of the Scouting program. It concentrates on providing training on modern leadership skills needed in today’s world for Scout leaders. Wood Badge Training will not only make you a better Scout Leader, it will also assist you in improving your personal and professional life as well.

Through Wood Badge you will gain valuable tools in listening, communicating, conflict management, project planning and leading change. You will learn to better understand and leverage diversity and the generational differences of society. You will learn to lead with a vision. You will learn the skills that will make you a better Scout Leader to benefit the youth we serve.

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Order of the Arrow Elections – Now through end of February – The Tella Qualla Boundary Chapter of the Order of the Arrow will be holding Order of the Arrow elections now until the end of February.  Scoutmasters and Troop Committee Chairs should have received an email with a link to a Google Signup.  Please use the signup for your troop early and soon to get the date you prefer.  Contact Austin McGee at afmcgee@bellsouth.net for more information or to schedule your troop’s election.