For Boys	This is where the FUN starts! Joining Boy Scout Troop 368 is a life of adventure. Are you Arrow-Of-Light or Webelos, or just curious about Boy Scouts? We have a camping trip or an activity planned for each month of the school year, plus one week of summer camp with the Troop. What kinds of thing can you learn? Here are a few things you get to try: mountain biking, canoeing, rock climbing, engineering, robotics, swimming, hiking, nature and stargazing. We meet once a week on Tuesday's 7:30-9:00pm. Once a month, we plan a camping trip or an activity during the school year. If you like sleeping in a tent with your friends, building fires, playing manhunt, eating good food you cooked together, then Boy Scouts is for you! If you like hunting frogs in streams, watching raptors and learning about wildlife, Troop 368 is for you! Our Boy Scout troop is run by boys just like you! If you want to go fossil hunting or ice climbing or skiing or anything else, then you get your friends to want do it too, and then it gets voted on by Scouts as a trip for the Troop. High Adventure Trips When you're in high school, our Boy Scouts kicks it up a couple of gears and you go on High Adventure Trips. SCUBA diving, sailing in the Bahamas, whitewater rafting through the Grand Canyon, backpacking in New Mexico, spelunking, rainforest ziplining and shooting rapids - these are all things done by Troop 368 Scouts! Scouts can apply for a campership for these trips. Getting Ready for College? When it comes to college applications, if you are in Scouting this can make a huge difference and can earn you valuable scholarships. Best of all, Boy Scouts makes you Prepared For Life!

What You Need To Start	Attend one of our meetings on Tuesday at 7:30-9:00pm. Once you have decided to join us, complete an application from our Scoutmaster or Committee Chair. Our troop will provide the Scout handbook, a 368 patch for your uniform and a neckerchief. You will need to purchase a Scout shirt, pants, belt, socks and neckerchief slide. In some instances, we may have donated uniforms that you can have. There are two local Scout stores where you can purchase the items. The first Scout store is at 1130 Rt. 22 West in Mountainside. The second Scout store is at 1 Saddle Road in Cedar Knolls.
For Parents	What is Scouting for your child? Scouting encourages a well-rounded balance of activities, and your son doesn’t have to attend every Scouting event. Scouts progress at their own pace. Scouts acquire life-skills, gain confidence and learn self-reliance in many areas that are just not available in the high school, the home or on the athletic field. Scouts is a “leadership lab” for boys, imparting a depth and breadth of leadership and communication skills you just can’t learn any other place. Scouts find the leadership style that works for them, whatever their background and personality. What is the Scouting fee for? The scouting fee goes to pay for camping trips and subsidized activities. Our Philosophy Our scouting philosophy is boy-run. They are given real responsibilities to figure out and if things go awry they learn far more than if they had just been told what to do by an adult! Scouting requires community service that many youth would not otherwise experience. How Does My Child Benefit From Scouting? Scouting teaches boys life and leadership skills and learning new things by earning merit badges. For Scouts who want to earn the rank of Eagle Scout find that it opens doors for them in college and after they graduate. To earn Eagle, scouts must manage a project for the community, with all that that entails. They must have held positions of leadership and explored many personal, sporting and academic areas through the merit badge program. “Eagle Scout” is an achievement that merits letters from present and past presidents and holders of high office, and survives on adult resumes well into their careers. By the time your son is applying to college, he will find that scouting has given him a rich resume of experience, service and achievement. College admissions like the well-rounded and in-depth extra-curricular achievements of Scouting. Many colleges offer leadership scholarships, and there are a number of scholarships for Scouts, especially for Eagle Scouts.
The Sports Schedule	We get it. These days kids are doing so much. Just remember Scouting is as much who you are as what you do. It provides an escape from the school-sports hamster wheel, some space for kids to be kids! In Scouting nobody waits on the bench. Most Boy Scouts are active in sports, marching band, etc, because they see the peerless value in the Scouting program. It's OK to be focused on a sport or another activity for part of the year. It's normal and doesn't prevent Scouts reaching Eagle.
Just try it!	All we ask is that you try it! If you are an Arrow-of-Light Scout - CONGRATULATIONS! Try out our Tuesday evening Troop meetings at Mountain Park School and come to a couple of campouts before your Bridging Ceremony. We think you'll like it and want to join. If you are 11 years old or older and want to try it out, feel free to give it a try! Send an email to our Scoutmaster.
	Scouts - you just can’t get this anywhere else!