Parents of BT8 and GT8 - please meet us on the terrace at the WCCC from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Monday May 20th. This meeting will be held right after the normal GT8 meeting and is optional, but may be helpful for families of new scouts.

Scouts taking the Personal Fitness Merit Badge and any interested in taking the fitness test portion of their Tenderfoot rank should RSVP now for the upcoming fitness test on May 4 at 2:30 pm. This is the third fitness test for the Personal Fitness Merit badge. Scouts who are working on the Personal Fitness MB must attend this test. PLEASE RSVP TO INDICATE WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN ATTEND. This test can also be used for your Tenderfoot fitness test requirement. The fitness test should take around 45 minutes and will take place at the Silver Creek Middle School, 3701 Saul Rd, in Kensington. We will meet behind the building by the fields.

RSVP now for May's outing -- white water rafting on the Lower Youghiogheny River. We will launch on Saturday at noon and the trip downriver is approximately 4 1/2 hours. Guides from the outfitter will travel with us in kayaks. Scouts will travel downriver in groups of approximately 8 people per raft over a number of class III rapids between slower pools to rest, recover, swim, and have fun.

All GT8 scouts attending summer camp must submit their medical forms to GT8 Camp Registration Coordinator Ms. Valeria Tortorelli (valeriat.allen@gmail.com) by May 1. The required form can be found on the calendar entry on the GT8 website. Specifically, Scouts need to complete the BSA health forms parts A, B, and C, as well as the NCAC Health Advisory form. (***NOTE: PART C OF THE BSA HEALTH FORM MUST BE COMPLETED BY A DOCTOR.***)

All attendees to the Bechtel High Adventure are invited to attend the required shakedown, a canoeing trip at ASM Hamza's cottage. The shakedown is scheduled for June 8-9. Details are below.

GT8 scouts attending the Whitewater rafting trip in May, the summer camp at Camp Olmstead, or Bechtel High Adventure this summer can come to the YMCA in Silver Spring between 3:00-4:00 pm on April 28 to get a swim test accomplished. Please come in your bathing suit and with a towel. The test involves jumping in the water feet first, swimming 100 yards, and floating on your back.