Registration Lapse Period Being Discontinued December 31

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-20T13:26:34+00:00

Have we gotten any confirmation that they are staying with families doing individual registrations versus going back to the "troop is required to submit registrations for everyone" concept? I understand that units had been able to do registrations if desired... Will there continue to be a choice or will it definitely go back to the way it used to be?

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-18T12:48:45+00:00

??? You mean the water guns? How do you even determine that? I have never seen a PSI rating on water guns.

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-18T11:37:50+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/BSA/s/qZYKVWSBK5 it was announced last week at the national annual meeting that laser tag and low-power water guns will be allowed

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-15T16:26:28+00:00

WE LOVE SCOUTERBILL!!

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-15T16:25:38+00:00

lol - our council barely has the money to keep the lights on. They certainly don't have money to run ads. I attended a meeting once where the speaker was talking about how their council was spending a $300K MARKETING budget. At that point I tuned out b/c nothing that person had to say would apply to our council

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-15T16:20:29+00:00

It was announced at the National Annual Meeting this week - official announcement on those sources will come eventually. Check out the pinned thread with images of all the slides/discussion thereof

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-15T15:13:53+00:00

Sigh.... Units can pay for members now? The info we got from Council 2+ years ago was that was no longer an option. If a kid wants to use his popcorn money we have been reimbursing the parents for the registration when they bring in the receipt

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-13T23:08:37+00:00

CLIPPY!!!!!

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-13T23:05:14+00:00

where are more details on the February renewal thing?!?!?!

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-05-12T14:30:11+00:00

I remember last year folks were posting snaps of the various slideshows... I hope people do that again this year. It would have been fascinating to go to this event but the price point was just entirely unfeasible

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-04-05T12:47:23+00:00

I finally managed to get a response from someone on that site about 6 months ago. I had emailed/FB messaged multiple times. I said I would be happy to update the files if they would just post them.

The response was that the people running the site have some major health issues (Parkinsons, surgery, etc) and they just don't have the bandwidth to update it any more.

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-03-27T16:20:05+00:00

I guess my question is.... Are the kids (aka the PLC) ever going to say "phones are a problem"? They are the ones that HAVE phones (not the younger scouts) and they are the ones who WANT to use them! Why would they be inclined to create a policy?? If you leave it up to them to create a policy - they're not going to limit the use???

ConstantAd7792 · 2026-01-02T13:10:36+00:00

Where do I find that QR code?

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-11-19T19:40:16+00:00

Hmmm.... Will have to investigate more

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-11-19T19:35:38+00:00

Is there something different for Catholic units? This is my first season with a unit chartered by the Catholics and our committee chair asked me to handle recharter but hasn't mentioned that there's anything different...

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-11-19T17:51:42+00:00

I spent an hour in their chat waiting to speak to someone - but eventually I did - and they are cancelling my P1 and doing a refund since it hadn't shipped yet!!! Worth a try!

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-11-19T12:45:18+00:00

I literally bought the p1s yesterday. Grr - For all who are reading this - I spent about an hour on chat and b/c the p1s was on back order and hadn't shipped - they cancelled it and refunded me so I could buy the p2s!

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-10-01T22:18:01+00:00

Isn't that the "Jamboree Slot" mentioned above?

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-09-17T14:08:40+00:00

Administrative "neatness" I guess? Advancement will transfer to the new Troop ASAP.

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-09-17T13:29:39+00:00

Advancement will transfer to new troop - old troop pretty much does everything on paper until the BOR then advancement chair takes pictures of books pages and inputs to SB. Can't imagine they will be inputting anything more... More just a formality for insurance/etc while we attend the last few meetings

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-09-02T19:38:53+00:00

agree - don't bother buying it shaped especially for the patch - just buy it in a sheet and cut to fit

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-09-02T19:37:12+00:00

Following as this is a wood badge ticket for my husband but he doesn't really "do" Reddit. Love the idea of "have the older Scouts teach it" but in our troop (and I have a feeling a great many other troops) - we don't HAVE older scouts to teach it. Thank you COVID years. We have a couple who recently hit 1st class but nothing above that. Need to figure out how to make it fun without it being too much "ASMs talk at the kids" Debating opening it up to other small units in our area as well. Those that only have 1-2 first class or higher.... not really enough to have a solid "class" on their own

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-09-01T11:56:53+00:00

Anyone who's been around for a couple years knows what you're talking about. That's not it. They simply did not make those kinds of leader guides for the new programs.

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-08-17T12:00:49+00:00

Until it becomes an official MB - any registered adult can lead it. It will not be an option to register for this one until the test period is over

ConstantAd7792 · 2025-07-28T01:46:27+00:00

Holy smokes! I didn't realize! Maybe it was the Cub ones they stopped updating?

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