2017 National Jamboree
Troop 1128 scouts have the opportunity to participate in the 2017 BSA National Jamboree from July 19-28, 2017. The National Jamboree is an event that only happens every four years and typically just once during each boy’s years as a scout. The National Jamboree will be held at The Summit BSA High Adventure Base near Mt. Hope, West Virginia, where it also was held during July 2013. More than 40,000 scout participants from every state in the country will attend, making it sort of an Olympics of scouting. The Summit will also be the site of the next World Jamboree during the summer of 2019; the most recent World Jamboree was held in Japan in 2015.
The National Jamboree is not a specific troop event since participation from our area is handled by our National Capital Area Council. Our National Capital Area Council has over 20,000 scouts across 23 districts including our Chain Bridge District. Our Chain Bridge District includes Troop 1128 and 77 other scout units and over 2,500 scouts. The Council will fill 12 temporary boy scout troops just for this Jamboree from the greater DC area, each troop with 36 scouts and 4 adult leaders. Troop 1128 ASM Dave Hoffman will serve as an adult leader for one of these troops as he did in 2013, and your scout can be in that specific troop as desired. So far, the Council has filled 360 scout spaces of the 432 spaces available.
There are just two registration requirements (please ignore any added late fees on the application as the council has waived these added fees at our request). If anyone has any questions about the Jamboree, recommend looking through the 2017 Jamboree website including the list of frequently asked questions and/or contacting ASM Dave Hoffman at 703-319-1066 or davehoffman1981@yahoo.com.
Below is a link to a video overview of the Jamboree.
2017 National Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve
The 2017 National Scout Jamboree — held July 19 to 28, 2017 — will feature the theme “Live Scouting’s Adventure….
Registration Requirements:
1) Registration link for the National Capital Area Council Jamboree site (the same registration form is also included as an attachment at the end of this message)
Look for the registration form under “Youth Participants” (also, if your scout has a financial need consider completing the campership application for a jamboree grant to help pay for their participation)
2) Registration link for the Summit site in West Virginia (this is the master Jamboree registration that will also allow submission of the standard BSA medical form at a later date)
Attachments available for 30 days until Monday, October 10, 2016:
2017_Jamboree_Registration_Form
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