We were accepted to attend the West Point camporee! Hoo-rah! Please pay your $40 deposit now: https://www.troop755.org/node/13730/signup/attending If you would like to attend, we still have a few spaces! Contact Mr. Chalom by Feb26 and he will add you to the list. See below for more info on upcoming planning meeting and help needed.
We have received replies from another West Point Cadet! He wrote individual letters to the scouts who wrote to him and you can see how much they help these Cadets. Please consider finding the time to write to our Michigan Cadets -- just let Mr.Chalom know and he can provide their addresses.
informational meeting at 6:15pm on Monday January 9 in the church gym.
The stations include a lot of team-building and leadership activities, such as ‘rescue a hostage in the woods’, leading your blindfolded patrol through a course, army-crawl to rescue a team-mate, problem-solving, paddling race, weapons familiarization, fire-building, etc.
We will have our own Troop755 Eagle Scout, John Smith, and Northville High School alumnus, Brandon Liu, there to join us. I hope we will also get to meet some of the other cadets that we wrote to over the summer.
Logistics
West Point is in New York State and is a 10 hour drive. So we will leave Thursday afternoon (and stay at a Scout camp overnight) or leave on Friday morning. (We always used to leave Thursday afternoon when we went before).
If we need to, we can rent 15-passenger Ford Transit vans but renting is expensive. If we can have enough parents with large SUVs, we should be able to save money. Either way, we will need a number of parents to be drivers.
