MICHIGAN SCOUTER Your resource for Scouting in the Mitten TEXT MCCPOP to 555888 and Visit michiganscouting.org/popcorn2018 for all the latest popcorn updates! In this Issue 2018 Day Camp Family Scouting STEM 2018 Spring Edition michigan crossroads council, BSA council staff Scout Executive Don Shepard Grant Writing Supervisor Alexandra Standal Grant Writer Angela Jarjis Membership Shared Services Coordinator (Registrar) Birdie Sisco Popcorn Sales Specialist Alanna Bonar MCC Staff Assistant Barb Campbell Chief Financial Officer Michael Chaffee Controller/Human Resources Deb Hartman Sr. Accountant Misty Schalk Accounting Specialist/Payroll Mary Ervin VIEW PAST EDITIONS OF THE MICHIGAN SCOUTER Accounting Specialist/Accounts Payable Lauri Rodgers Table of contents Chief Information Officer Christopher Hopkins Volunteer Key 3 Message Page 3 Scout Earns 138 Merit Badges! Page 4 Public Relations Manager Jane Parikh Brad Simmons Receives Distinguished Eagle Award Page 5 Graphic Design Specialist 2018 Day Camps Page 6 Ashley Kraft Training Page 7 STEM Program Director Upcoming Events Page 8 Kimberlee Manor STEM Page 10 STEM Associate, East/Southeast Boy Scout News Page 11 Eric Suender Family Scouting Page 12 STEM Associate, Central Hannah Meixner Outdoor Adventures Page 13 STEM Associate, West/Southwest Great Lakes FSC Page 15 Bridget Knight President Ford FSC Page 26 Facilities Manager Southern Shores FSC Page 33 Jerry Kiste Water and Woods FSC Page 44 2 A message from the key 3 As we Spring forward in time we grow ever closer to the highlight of each Scouts Program Year, Summer Camp!! If your Scouts are not signed up to attend one of our world class summer camping operations they will be missing out on memories that will last a lifetime and an opportunity to earn some very exciting advancement. We are employing a renewed sense of customer service this Summer like nothing you have seen before, we want your experience to very positive and we will go to great lengths to ensure you and your Pack, Troop or Crew have a mountain top time! If you haven't been to a Michigan Scouting Summer Camp in a while please come back and see us, as Dorothy said on the Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like home!" As the Key three plans to attend our facilities and receive your feedback this Summer, please take time to tell us what we can do to make your experience even more enjoyable. We may not be perfect yet but it will not stop us from continually striving to be the best for you. Thank you for all you do to provide monthly Mountain Top Experiences for the Scouts in your unit. Michigan Scouting is our first priority, please let us know how our team can help you deliver the best experience possible! You can reach us through the Michigan Crossroads Council website. We hope to see you on the Scouting Trail soon. Blessings to all. Donald D. Shepard Jr. Scout Executive/CEO Brad B. Arbuckle Michael Weber Don Shepard Council President Council Commissioner Scout Executive Michigan Crossroads Council Michigan Crossroads Council Michigan Crossroads Council Stay Connected - TEXT MCCSCOUT to 555888 3 Superstar scout earns 138 merit badges! seeping into his lifestyle. Much of Morris's life has fallen into the extraordinary category. Morris, who attained Case in point: His Eagle Scout status in April introduction to 2015, recently earned a scouting at age 9 came in distinction only a handful Shanghai, China, of Scouts have reached where he lived when he earned all 137 briefly while his merit badges available father Dan was (and another one that has stationed there since been eliminated). for his job at Ford. The high school senior's "Probably the best incredible accomplishment was things about scouting recognized in late February, for me have been that it Of all the skills when he was honored at gives me an opportunity Northville's Kevin Morris Northville Troop 755's Winter to give back to the mastered to become one of the Court of Honor, which was community through all attended not only by his highest-achieving members in the charity work we do the 108-year history of the Boys southeast Michigan peers, but and it has given me a Scouts of America, the toughest by members of the Great Lakes one (for him, at least) had Field Service Council as well. chance to live out some nothing to do with canoeing, amazing adventures," he hiking or building a camp fire. “If I were to choose one word said, noting a dog-sled to describe Kevin, it would be experience in Ottawa, 'humble,'" said Chris McCormick, "I had to learn to play the bugle," Canada, and back-packing Morris said with a chuckle. "I Morris's scoutmaster. "He didn’t in Glacier National Park. had played the clarinet a little pursue these awards for the bit when I was younger, but the recognition, but for the pure joy bugle is different. It took a lot and self-accomplishment they READ FULL STORY of work, a lot of practice, but I provided. eventually learned it enough - Story by Ed Wright at to be my troop's bugler for "Kevin is a dedicated and Hometown Life a couple of months." driven young man who has been successful in There isn't a merit academics, sports and badge for ambition, scouting and no doubt will but Morris would have bagged that one years be successful in life. The ago, thanks to a tireless world is lucky to have a drive that prevents young man like Kevin.” lethargy or laziness from 4 BRAD SIMMONS RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED EAGLE AWARD who was presented this morning national-level recognition, with the Distinguished Eagle fame, or demonstrated Scout Award in front of a group of eminence within their field, and more than 400 during the Great have a strong record of voluntary Lakes Field Service Council’s service to their community. On My Honor Breakfast. Brad is one of only 2,200 Eagle Scouts The presentation of the award nationwide to ever receive this held special significance for distinctive honor. Brad’s long Simmons who received it from and distinguished volunteer Bill Ford, executive chairman of leadership commitment to Ford Motor Co. Scouting includes serving as District Chairman, Council “It was not something President, and as a contingent I ever sought out or leader for the Mackinaw Island expected to receive,” Brad Service Camp. In addition to these previous roles with said. “It was a very nice Brad Simmons became a and humbling surprise.” member of an exclusive Scouting, Brad, who is Director – club when he received the Office of the Executive Chairman Don D. Shepard, Jr., MCC Distinguished Eagle Scout with the Ford Motor Co., has Scout Executive and CEO, said Award during the Great lakes represented his employer and Simmons has been a servant Field Service Council’s “On My the greater Detroit community leader for Scouting and many Honor Breakfast” on March 26 at as a volunteer on numerous other organizations in the the Silver Garden Event Center boards, committees, and Detroit area for decades and in Southfield. programs throughout Michigan and the nation. always leads by example. Shepard said he thinks The breakfast was Please join us in saluting Brad - Simmons was very deserving of attended by more than one of the finest servant leaders the national award. 400 community and to ever wear the Scouting business leaders who uniform. #SupportScouting contributed more than #SponsorShoutout. READ THE FULL STORY $92,000 to support Brad, director of Community Story by Jane Parikh Scouting in Macomb, Outreach for Ford Motor Co., Oakland, and Wayne is now among a group of counties, according 2,200 individuals nationwide, to Denver Laabs, including the late President Development Director for Gerald R. Ford and film director the Great Lakes FSC. Stephen Spielberg, to have received the DESA since it was Our #GratiTuesday spotlight established in 1969. The award shines today on Brad Simmons acknowledges Eagle Scouts who have received extraordinary 5 2018 Day Camps Cub Scouts will travel to foreign countries, experience new cultures and pass through different dimensions during 2018 Summer Day Camps offered by the Southern Shores Service Council. Cubs will have a blast playing games, shooting, STEM, Scout skills, and many other activities while at Day Camp. 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