Our fall one is simply an awards ceremony, with coffee and dessert, while our winter court is a full dinner with the Scouts acting as servers for the Scouts' families. Recently, we've gone from a simple spaghetti and meatballs dinner, to a family pot luck style dinner - each Scouts' family brings a part of the dinner, making enough for everyone there. Not only is the food great tasting with a wide variety of style and flavor, but it gets the whole Troop 101 family involved in the process. (Besides its a small price to pay to see your Scout serving you dinner as oppose to the other way around!)
After dinner, (and a brief skit... and I do mean brief) we were proud to award 5 merit badges, 5 rank advancements, 1 rank demotion (the young Scout in question was awarded the wrong rank patch somehow) and we were happy to welcome a new Scout to the 101 family, along with his family.
Merit badges were as follows:
1 Traffic Safety
2 First Aids (required for Eagle)
1 Family Life (required for Eagle)
1 Personal Management (required for Eagle)
Rank Advancement was:
2 Tenderfoots
3 Boy Scouts
For our new Scout Joe, to make him an official member of the T101 family, he was given a new BSA Handbook, Neckerchief & Slide, and the official T101 Class B blue shirt. May he use and/wear them with pride - and hopefully at the next COH we'll be awarding him his first rank!
However happy we were to welcome Joe, it was a little sad that this will be our oldest Scout Nick's last COH as a Boy Scout. He earned his final required merit badges, and is currently in the last stages of completing the necessary requirements for the coveted rank of Eagle. Hopefully later this year we will be having an Eagle Court of Honor for Nick.
Congratulations to all who earned a merit badge or a rank, and keep up the good work!
I'd also like to send out a special thanks to all the parents who cooked (everything was great!) and a special thank you to Mr. & Mrs. Emmetts for running the kitchen for us!
Pictures are here.
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