Welcome Webelos!
What's Different about Troop 510? Camping, Camping, Camping.
We have extraordinary kids and inspired adult leaders; all of our scouts in Troop 510 are active in other school, church, and/or community activities, and also are active in the troop.
Here at Troop 510 we LOVE to have fun camping, so we go camping every month.
These are just some of the activities we've enjoyed in the last couple of years:
- Canoeing on the Wisconsin River.
- Caving at Illinois Caverns (a really cool river cave).
- Snow skiing in Wisconsin.
- Luging in Michigan with overnight on a real submarine.
- Mountain biking in Wisconsin.
- First-Aid Campout with simulated scout emergencies & victims.
- Pioneering Campout building towers and catapults.
- Rock climbing at Upper Limits in Bloomington. Illinois.
- Dog sledding on snow-covered trails.
- Fishing Campout at a premier Illinois fishing lake.
- High Adventure trips to West Virginia (whitewater rafting, horseback riding, mountain biking, rock climbing); to Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota; to Sea Base in the Florida Keys; to the Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico.
- Summer Camp every year at Camp Owasippe near Muskegon, Michigan.
Troop 510 does a lot of service projects to give back to the community, and you'd be surprised how much fun these can be.
Here at Troop 510 we want you to be able to earn your rank advancements from Tenderfoot, through Second Class, First Class, Star, Life, and finally Eagle.
But our main goal is to have you learn the skills to be able to do these exciting activities, and to learn how to live the Scout Law every day in your life, and have a lot of fun while doing it.
For Parents
These next 3-4 years are a wondrous time during which your young boy will grow into a young man; there's nothing more rewarding than spending time with him on campouts and other activities and seeing him first-hand growing into a young, confident leader.
Studies show that the boys who stay involved with several activities through these next few critical years are the ones who stay out of trouble, and learn how to be happy and successful while working hard. Scouting teaches life skills, and leads to success.
Scouting, especially at Troop 510, is an awful lot of fun, not just for them, but for the parents, too.
The bottom line is that this is all for the boys, to help them become the young men that we want them to be.
The older scouts who have graduated from the Troop, many as Eagle Scouts, tell us that they learn so much during their time in Scouting: about themselves, about others, about independence and self-reliance, about organization and planning, about leadership.
They wouldn't trade their time in Scouts for anything.