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Welcome to the Potomac Council website. The Potomac Council, Boy Scouts of America serves the youth in Western Maryland (Garrett and Allegany counties) and West Virginia (Grant, Hardy, Hampshire, and Mineral counties).
Announcements
Westmoreland Fayette is having a National Youth Leadership Training course this cummer and any Boy Scout from Potomac Council is invited as long as he meets age and rank requirements. This program will provide all Scouts with the necessary tools to help run an effective Troop using the patrol method. If interested please check out the three informational links below. They will help to direct you on all of the details of the course.
Dust off all of your old Super Hero costumes!!! We will be having a Super Duper Great time in Frostburg, Moorefield, and Oakland this summer for our second year of District Day Camps! Here is all the information that your Pack will need for the District Day Camps. Please review the Leader Guide below. If you have any questions about any of the Day Camps please direct them to Ross Kiddy at ross.kiddy@scouting.org. The cost for each camper will be $55.00.
The inaugural SUMMIT HIGH ADVENTURE BASE programs will open in June 2014. Activities will revolve around four program tracks. In addition to the unique focus provided by each program track, participants will experience activities centered on our core mission areas – adventure, sustainability, leadership and service.
Each adventure lasts 7 days with crews arriving each day beginning June 8, 2014 with the final crew arrival date set for August 16, 2014. Each program track includes time at the CHRISTEN HIGH ADVENTURE BASE located at THE SUMMIT as well as one to three nights at outpost camps at THE SUMMIT or in the New River Gorge area.
THE SUMMIT will provide all food, tents, cots and program equipment. Crew will provide sleeping bags and other personal gear.
Interested in going? Want to learn more? Click Below!
The Tour & Activity Plan system is back online!!
The Online System is back! The updated system is more user friendly than before. You may access it through the MyScouting website. Please make sure your BSA member ID is attached to your profile so that you can access your unit's information.
An updated verison of the Eagle Service Project Workbook has been released to support the revised wording of Eagle Scout requirement 5, which calls for a project proposal to be approved by the council or district, rather than "the project plan."
If a Scout has already had his project approved using the old workbook, he may continue with that workbook. This new workbook takes effect January 1 and must be used after then. In between now and January 1, a scout has a choice which workbook to use but once started must finish with the one chosen.
To download a copy of the New Eagle Service Project Workbook follow the link below:
Interested Scouts, Venturers, and Adults can now begin signing up for the 2013 National Scout Jamboree, the first National Scout Jamboree to be held at Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia.
Potomac Council has been allocated 1 Troop of Boy Scouts and 1 group of Venturers for the Jamboree which means:
Troop=36 Scouts, 4 Leaders
Venturers=9 Venturers, 1 Adviser
Sign up early! Spaces will fill up. To register, follow the link below:
As the use of social media grows, including use of such sites as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc., it is important that the Scouting community understand how best to make use of these services and the impacts they may have on Youth Protection.
To help with this, the National Council of the BSA has released a set of Social Media Guidelines. If your unit is making use of social media, please take a look at these guidelines:
Internet Advancement, the online service for units submitting youth member advancement, has been enhanced with some important new features:
- The Youth Protection Training (YPT) completed date, if any, is now displayed for each person on the unit roster report.
- Users may now view previous advancement reports online.
- Academic and sports belt loops for Cub Scout Packs are now trackable online.
- Cub Scout Packs may enter completion of the Tiger Cub rank for members who earned the award but did not have it in their records.
Effective March 1,2011, all unit trip and activity information must be submitted using the new Tour Plan form. This Tour Plan replaces the Local and National Tour Permits, and those forms will no longer be accepted. Also, the online Tour Permit Submittal System will be suspended until further notice. For more information about this change and to get the new form go to:
The BSA has just announced an update to the current Health and Medical Record Form. The form has been reorganized and asks for some additional information.
Participants in overnight activities are asked to completed Parts A, B, and C.
The new form can be found by following the link below and are availalbe in dowloadable, fillable PDF format:
Youth safety is the No. 1 concern of the BSA.
To increase awareness of this societal problem and to create even greater barriers to abuse than already exist today in Scouting, the Boy Scouts of America is implementing several important changes to further enhance its Youth Protection policies:
Effective June 1, 2010:
Youth Protection Training is required for all registered volunteers.
New leaders are required to take Youth Protection Training before they submit their application for registration. The certificate of completion for this training must be submitted at the time application is made and before volunteer service with youth begins.
Youth Protection Training must be taken every two years. If a volunteer’s Youth Protection Training record is not current at the time of recharter, the volunteer will not be reregistered.
For More Information Download this letter from Assistant Chief Scout Executive Jim Terry
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United Way Agency
The Potomac Council is an agency of the County United Way, which consists fo the United Ways of Allegany and Garrett Counties in Maryland, and Mineral and Hampshire Counties in West Virginia.
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