SCHEDULE

7:00 – 7:30 PM	Gathering District Director and Commissioner's Staff members available to answer questions. Training Online Tour Permit Training
7:30 – 7:45 PM	Announcements/Joint Session General Announcements 2009 Scouts to the Skies Unit Rechartering New online training: “This is Scouting” District Executive’s Announcements
7:50 – 9:00 PM	Cub Scout Breakout Session Theme of the month – Leave Nothing but Footprints Training Highlight -- Special Needs Scouting Highlighted Book -- Cub Scout Leader How-To Book
7:50 – 9:00 PM	Boy Scout Breakout Session Announcements Scouts to the Skies Camporee @ Lakehurst Roundtable Discussion

PRESENTATIONS

If you would like to communicate something to the group at the Joint Session, Boy Scout Breakout, and/or Cub Scout Breakout, please contact David Mitchko, david.mitchko@navy.mil before the Roundtable, thanks. You will need to supply flyers to hand out. If you are in attendance, you will be introduced so that interested people can talk to you later, but verbal presentations will be limited.

BOY SCOUT ADVANCEMENT NEWS

Our district advancement web page, http://mad-bsa.org/advancement/, has links useful for Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venturer advancement. The latest list of Mercer Area District merit badge counselors is dated March 23, 2009 - if you would like a copy, please email Bruce Wentworth (bruce@wenthome.com), identifying your troop affiliation.

NEW ONLINE TRAINING AVAILABLE

BSA National has just released a new on-line course called “This is Scouting”. It will replace the classroom course New Leader Essentials, which served as the introduction to the Basic Adult Leader training track. You may access this new training from the e-learning section of the MyScouting web site, http://MyScouting.org/.

Please also note that our district training web page (http://wenthome.com/training/) provides a training overview and lists upcoming training opportunities in our area.

UNIT COMMISSIONER RECRUITMENT DRIVE

Your District needs your help! We need more Unit Commissioners, who's job is to visit units and help them deliver a quality program. For each qualified candidate nominated, a unit will receive two free adult leader slots to the Scouts to the Skies Camporee and Cub-a-rama. Please consider nominating a qualified person from your unit. Former unit leaders with program experience are good candidates. The more Unit Commissioners we have in our district, the more each unit will get the help and support they need. See http://mad-bsa.org/roundtable/uc-recruit-2009.html for more details.