By Nick Dunlap

The NYLT experience was great, NYLT stands for National Youth Leadership Training. I think that everyone needs to go that are eligible, because it is a good experience to have. When we arrived we were broke into groups of eight to simulate a patrol. We did everything that a patrol would do like, eat, plan and hike.

Each day we did a fun activity like an outpost hike, a helicopter from the KC police department and a realistic first aid where 2 people from our patrol were taken and had fake blood to look like a real accident, one kid had a rock superglue to his head to make it look like he had fallen and hit his head on a rock. We also did 3 presentations a day which was a youth staff conducting power point.

Our troop has all the characteristics of a well organized troop, but I think that we all need some more enthusiasm.