• How to Run a Good Troop Meeting
  
  
• PLC Meeting Thoughts
  
  
• PLC GRUBMASTER Guidelines

• Program Resources Site
  (TONS of good stuff)
  
  
• Troop Program Features - Volume I 
  (meetings and activities around a theme)
  
  
• Troop Program Features - Volume II  
  (meetings and activities around a theme)
  
  
• Troop Program Features - Volume III  
  (meetings and activities around a theme)
  
  
• Scoutmaster Handbook (2010 Edition)
  very good section on running troop meetings, and a whole section on meetings specifically for a newly formed troop

• Games from TheSource
  (tons of really good games and activities!)

• Progressive Pioneering (John Thurman)
  
  
• Ropes and Poles Blog
  
  
• Pioneering Projects
  
  
• Pioneering Meeting Plan (Troop 19)
  
  
• Tripod Lashing
  
  
• Build a Monkey Bridge

Orienteering

• What you should know... (Boys' Life)
  
  
• DVOA

Backpacking

• Gory Pictures of Hiking Blisters

• Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps

• Scout Merit Badge Days at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
  Merit badges: American Heritage, Citizenship in the Nation Badge, Law
  
  
• Franklin Institute
  Archaeology Merit Badge
  
  
• STEM in Scouting 
• Cradle of Liberty Council
• Baltimore Area Council
  
  
• Merit Badge College
• Cradle of Liberty Council
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• World Affairs Council of Philadelphia Global Scholars

• Free artwork for shirts, etc.: https://unsplash.com/
  
  
• Tax Deductibility of Scouting expenses: LINK
  
  
• BSA Logo on cakes: LINK • LINK2
  
  
• Friends of Treasure Island
  
  Hank Wiese
  410.340.9907
  hwiese@verizon.net  
  
  

Other Troops with Cool Websites

• Troop 97 Colorado
  

Media Contacts

• Ambler Gazette - Nancy March
  
  

Things to Ponder
(from the Scoutmaster)

• Green vs. Red (considering increasing income inequality in the world and what you can do about it)
  
  
• The Machine Stops (1909 dystopian sci-fi story about the automation of society)