Boy Scouts of America - Troop 780 - News

Backpacker to Raven Rock State Park

November 7-9 Troop 780 will be doing a mini backpacker to Raven Rock State Park.  Stay tuned for backpacking meal suggestions and make sure you check out the link to get backpacking ideas and tips.

Checklists and Guidelines

If you have any questions contact your Senior Patrol Leader.

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Troop 780 Goes Shooting....Again

Troop 780 will be out in the woods shooting Skeet and .22's.  We going to have a great time, our NRA certified Range officer will be keeping us in line. And probably showing off her new pink .22

In addition, we will be hitting the fishing and survival aspect pretty hard.


34 fish were caught on the last fishing outing, 300 clay pigeons met their fate.


Want to be a part of an exiting and adventurous group?


Click on the link to find out how.  We have a backpacker coming up in 3 weeks!

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Computer Merit Badge Section is Finished

The computer merit badge section is now complete.

It should allow almost anyone to teach or learn the majority of the Computer Merit Badge Requirements.

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Training Session Agenda

Training this weekend. September 13th, 2008. 8am - 4pm
Cost:  $0.00

Activity Uniform (Class "B") at DSUMC

Lunch will be served. Hot dogs etc.

- TLT (Required for all new leaders, everyone else should participate as well) 8am - 10am

- MB Training (Citizenship In The Community, Personal Fitness, any partial requirements you have open)
10am - 11:30am

-Lunch 11:30am 12:30 pm

- MB Training (Continued)
12:30 pm - end (About 4pm)

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Training This Weekend

Troop 780 will hold Troop Leadership Training at Divine Street Methodist Church on Saturday, September 13, 2008

In addition to TLT, we will continue the day teaching:
Citizenship In The Community
Personal Fitness

And working on any outstanding MB requirements the scouts may have.

Lunch will be served.

8:00 am until 4:00 pm

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Troop 780 Elections Results

The Election Results are in.

SPL - Cody C.
ASPL - Patrick D.

Hawk PL - Bill B.
Hawk APL - Jake C.

Bat PL - Alan A.
Bat APL - Kris C.

Troop Instructor - Sean M.
Historian - Jake C.
Chaplain Aid - Gordon P.
Quartermaster - Rhett S.
Scribe - Ian M.
OA Rep. - Kris C.

Please congratulate these scouts on their success, we know they'll do a great job for Troop 780.

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Troop 780 Implements RSS Feeds

Get your news delivered to you instead of having to come to the website!

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Anthony Agosto Passes Eagle BOR

Anthony Agosto has taken and passed his Eagle Board Of Review (BOR). Everything will be official when his records come back from National.

We congratulate Anthony on this accomplishment!

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Computer Skills Page Under Development

Our latest addition to the "Skills" Section is to fully support the requirement for the Computer Merit Badge.

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Meeting Canceled

The PLC of Troop 780 has decided to cancel Monday nights meeting and let everyone enjoy the Labor day Holiday.

The SPL started off the troop mobilization plan tonight, if anyone was skipped, please contact him so that the process can be tuned.

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New Counter

I requested a smaller scout counter from Amazing Counters (We were also the ones that requested the original one) and they were very kind in delivering a new one to us today.

Please check out their service by clicking on the counter link.

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The Summer Merit Badge Competition is Over!

While almost everyone completed 6-9 merit badges over the last 2 months we had one scout that went above and beyond!

Kristopher C. wins the contest with 12 completed Merit Badges in two short months!

Kris earned a limited edition Boy Scout Knife for his accomplishments.

We are all very proud of his achievement and would like to encourage everyone to keep going!

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We passed 4,000,000 hits today !!!

Pretty amazing for a website designed for a troop.

Added new knots to complement the new fishing section I'm putting together

Personal Management Merit Badge Power Point has been updated and loaded.

Find out what your district (Cape Fear District) is supposed to be doing for you. New!

Merit badge statistics from 1911-2007 are now on-line.

Online Songs, Skits, Cheers and Scoutmaster Minutes has been added. Got a favorite? Send it to us and we'll post it giving you credit!

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Summer Camp Pictures are Posted

See them Here

Current Gallery is at 32,000+ files and just over 3 GB

I have made the Summer camp slide shows but, I ran out of DVD's so I only made about 6-7 copies.

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