Taking place ever four years, Troop 1 Katonah had the thrill of attending the adventurous Spring Camporee from May 2nd to 4th. Being a council-wide event, the Troop was able to participate with around a thousand other scouters in Croton Point Park for the Camporee. Once arriving, the troop was able to explore the activities of the program throughout four main areas. These four divisions of the camporee consisted of the Mountain, Arctic, Desert, and Jungle themes. Having a different district run each area, the four areas contained various programs and activities that not only tested the skills of our scouts but also proved to be a blast. Each of these activities could correlate to the theme of the area of which it takes place. Ranging from 4-7 activities, scouts could do favorites such as the mountain themed climbing wall, the arctic cardboard box igloo construction (the program had to provide a sufficient material due to the lack of snow in spring), the desert monkey bring (testing the scouts not to fall into the "snake" infested pit below **assurance that the snakes were in fact rubber**) and the jungle rope swings (challenging scouts to prevent water from pouring out of a soap can or falling in general while swinging to the other side of an invisible cliff). Revolving around group-based work, the scouts had to work together to complete each activity or they would be forced to restart if a scout was not able to succeed (talk about leaving nobody behind). On Saturday night of the event, the scouts were further given wonderful entertainment by a professional hypnotist. With approximately 15 scouts being "hypnotized", the man of talent was able to make these individuals cry, sweat, fall asleep, and dance in front of hundreds of people. Since these scouts were claimed by others to never perform these types of actions if they were not hypnotized, the hypnotist did not only reveal his talent to be anything but a hoax, but was able to receive agreements from the hypnotized by having them say "He's the Man" whenever the man's name was mentioned 15 minutes after the performance. After reluctantly returning home after a splendid event, every scout in Katonah Troop 1 as well as all the other troops can honestly say that thinking that the Spring Camporee was a cool event would be a massive understatement.
January 3 Troop meeting 10 Troop Meeting 19 Klondike Derby 24 Meeting 31 Board of Review February 7 Family Dinner at Katonah Presb. Church-6:30 PM 14 Troop Meeting 19 Boy Scout Sunday- Boys Wear Uniforms to Church 21 Troop Meeting 23-24 Camp out on the U.S.S. Intrepid 28 Troop Meeting March 2-3 Campout Weather Date 7 Troop Meeting 14 Troop Meeting 16 Thrillz-High Flying Adventure Park-time TBA 21 Order of Arrow Elections 28 Troop Meeting April 4 Troop Meeting 11 Troop Meeting 18 NO Meeting-spring break 25 Troop Meeting 27 Field trip to Bear Mtn. Park and Camp Out May 2 Troop Meeting 3-5 Camporee 9 Troop Meeting 16 Troop Meeting 23 Troop Meeting 27 Memorial Day Parade 30 Troop Meeting June 6 Board of Review 13 Court of Honor 27-30 100th Anniversary Memorial Canoe Trip to Fryeburg, Maine August 4-10...