Scout Troop 282 Boys and Girls is a great troop. The troops are led by our youth leadership. Our youth leadership (Patrol Leadership Council) meets once a month to plan our weekly troop meetings and to talk about future events for our troop. Our Troop meetings are fun. We have a Pre-Opening game starting at 6:30 PM. Then at 7:00 PM we have our Opening where we recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Scout Law and Scout Oath. At 7:05 PM we have Patrol Corners where our Patrol Leaders cover the patrol business. We have Skills Instruction at 7:15 PM. Here we learn a scouting skill (1st Aid, Knots, Lashing, Winter Camping, Backpacking, Cooking, Building Fires, Use of Hand Ax and Pocket Knifes etc). Then at 7:35 PM we have Inter-patrol Activity where we compete against the other patrols on what we learned in the Skills Instruction. I forgot to tell you our troop is one big team which is led by our Troops Sr. Patrol Leader the troops team leader but then we are broken down into teams of eight called patrols. Our Patrols are led by a Patrol Leader, the team captain. Each week we have 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place awards awarded to the patrols. The patrols are recognized individually. After the competition we have Troop Advancement at 7:45 PM. Here we work on rank advancement for Scout, Tenderfoot, 2nd Class, 1st Class, Star, Life and Eagle. Our youth leadership teach the Scout, Tenderfoot, 2nd Class and 1st Class Ranks. For Star, Life and Eagle Rank the scouts work on merit badges taught by our adult leadership. At 8:15 PM we have our closing where any rank advancement or merit badges earn that week are awarded to the scouts who earned them. Announcements are made and our Scoutmaster has a minute to talk to us. That’s our weekly. We also have monthly activities which could be an overnight, a trip to the Omaha Zoo, the Cosmosphere or a day activity.

We have a GREAT TROOP.

We are always looking for Young Ladies and Young Men who are in at least the 5th Grade to COME AND JOIN THE FUN BY JOINING OUR TROOP.

We meet on Monday Nights from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at TRINITY EPICOPAL CHURCH 409 N. LIBERTY INDEP MO 64050

Our Scout Troop has been working on the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge at our scout meetings in September 2023.  It has been very interesting to see how the scouting program was created by Baden Powell in England and how William Boyce brought the scouting program to the United States by a scout doing a good  deed. We also learned that many of the games we play today were at the beginning.  This was very interesting to me. We also learned about the National Scout Museum located in New Mexico at the Philmont Scout Reservation.

The requirement I liked the most was when we had Andy Dubill as a guest at our scout meeting. Mr. Dubill brought a small portion of his scouting memorabilia collection. He had a really neat collection. He had several scout uniforms that he shared with us. He had a scout uniform that dated back to 1912 which he allowed Liam in our scout troop to wear. It was really cool. Looking at all Mr. Dubill’s scouting stuff has made me want to start my own collection. The other item that was interesting to me was that we still do many of the items to earn our ranks that the scouts did back in 1910.