{"id":3363,"date":"2013-02-19T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2013-04-07T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T15:31:01","slug":"mspp-125-the-troop-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"MSPP #125: The Troop Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=3365\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3365\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3365\" title=\"FastStartTroopMtg\" alt=\"Troop Meeting Training\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FastStartTroopMtg-250x166.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FastStartTroopMtg-250x166.png 250w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FastStartTroopMtg.png 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>I have collected a fair number of Scouting related items during the thirty-plus years I have been involved with our local Boy Scout Troop. One of these items is a vhs tape of Boy Scout Leader Fast Start Orientation from 2002. You see, there was a time, not that long ago, when adult leaders could not readily go to the internet to watch training videos. They had to borrow a vhs tape from their council office. I know, hard to believe.<\/p>\n<p>While I am stuck at home recovering from neck surgery, I decided to make a digital copy of this 2002 training tape I received from the council when they decided to throw it out several years ago. Once I had a digital copy of it I thought it might be fun to share this 11 year old production with the viewers of the <strong>Melrose Scout Productions Podcast<\/strong>. The whole video is 32 minutes long so I broke it down into three parts.<\/p>\n<p>This first part takes us through the process of planning and conducting a Boy Scout <strong>troop meeting<\/strong>. The video covers things very well and is still very reverent to today&#8217;s program. Melrose Boy Scout Troop 68 has followed this format for decades with a lot of success. If you have new adult leaders in your troop I would recommend they sit down and watch this. I also think it is fun to watch a training video from 11 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to\u00a0<a title=\"Melrose Scout Productions Podcast #125: The Troop Meeting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/QTmov\/FastStart2002P1.m4v\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and watch this Podcast.<br \/>\nSubscribe to\u00a0<strong>Melrose Scout Productions Podcast<\/strong>\u00a0through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/melrose-scouting-productions\/id251187870\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTUNES \u00a0<\/strong>(and rate the show)<\/a><br \/>\nor at\u00a0<a title=\"Melrose Scout Productions Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/melrosescoutingproductions\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/melrosescoutingproductions<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Don&#8217;t forget to\u00a0<em>leave a comment<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>below<\/strong>, or at the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/melrose-scouting-productions\/id251187870\">iTunes<\/a>\u00a0store<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have collected a fair number of Scouting related items during the thirty-plus years I have been involved with our local Boy Scout Troop. One of these items is a vhs tape of Boy Scout Leader Fast Start Orientation from 2002. You see, there was a time, not that long ago, when adult leaders could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,80,76,10,38,51],"tags":[394,40,231,411],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-nostalgia","category-patrol","category-podcast","category-program","category-training","tag-leadership","tag-meetings","tag-patrol-leader-council","tag-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}