New Parent Guideline

T606 New Parent Checklist                     updated on 08/24/2025

This checklist is meant to provide necessary information for newly joined parents/scouts about what/when/who related to T606 during your 1st year journey.

• 1. Troop 606 home: 

Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Santa Clara Council, Polaris District, CASA chartered, West Region, BSA

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/bscoutst606/home

Committee Chair (CC): Sheng Yang (2024-2026)

Scoutmaster (SM): Xin Cai (2024-2026)

Currently, there are 2 patrols, e.g. Shark and Phoenix. The newly joined scout will be assigned to one patrol by SPL.

• 1. Membership Application: Contact: Ming Jing

Youth application, Adult application, membership fee

Scout is registered after application/membership fee, and adult is registered at re-charter period around Oct/Nov.  FOS (Friend of Scout) is around spring time.

• 1. Email Registration: Send email to bsa606@gmail.com or CC / SM

There are 2 email lists to communicate among adults, and scouts.

https://groups.google.com/g/bsa606-committee: adult’s email

https://groups.google.com/g/bsa606 : adult’s email and scout’s email

Scout is encouraged to have his own email.

• 1. Google doc shared account:

https://sites.google.com/site/bscoutst606/resources/google-account-registration

            The following docs are shared by this account:

Scout’s information (With name, address, phone number), T606 Scouts

Merit badge Records, BSA_T606_Adult_Training_Record, etc

• 1. Troop meeting: CC/SM

Time: 1st and 4th Saturday every month from 1:30pm to 3:00pm

Place: Almaden Neighborhood Church

            Committee meeting on 1st Saturday every month from 1:30pm to 3:30pm

            New parent can either watch scout on site, or attend committee meeting.

• 1. Uniform: Contact: Joey Lau & Dengfeng Gao

Class B Troop Uniform: Contact Joey or Dengfeng for T-shirt, neckerchief, badges or any other questions on uniform requirements.

            Buy one for scout, and recommend one for adult.

Scout may wear this until purchasing uniform A.

May need more for summer camp

Class A BSA Uniform:  1900 The Alameda Suite 100 San Jose CA 95126 408-638-8300 

            https://svmbc.org/scout-shop/

            You can ask the clerk about what is a must as boy scout uniform.

            Short, paint (Recommended the type with 2 modes, e.g. long and short)

            Sock, belt, scout handbook, Santa Clara council patch

            Contact Joey/Dengfeng for T606 patches

            Scout coupon book (ask CC) has a 10% discount coupon

Recommendation: Scout has uniform A and B as soon as possible. Adult can wait until basic training with “Trained” patch or their first outdoor activity

• 1. Camping equipment: Consult SM/ASM, Xin Cai/Daman Ding

REI or Amazon is good place for shopping

Before the 1st camp: Scout to have tent, sleeping bag, and sleeping pad      

Adult is not sleeping with scout, so adult needs his own gear if camp together.

Recommended Tent: 1 or 2 persons lighter tent for 3 or 4 season

Recommended Sleep bag: 15-25 degree, lighter mummy style

Backpacking bag is not required for the 1st camp, which you can check what other scouts have as your reference.

You can consult SM/ASM on how to choose the camping equipment.

• 1. Summer camp: CC

This is the most exciting fun one week camp, and the registration may be 4 months ahead. If you join the troop around spring/summer time, check with CC or AIC for this event. New scout would love this camp.

• 1. TLT (Troop Leadership Training): CC/SM

This is a good training/information about how the troop is run, and lean some troop related terminology. We have scout TLT, and adult TLT which is around Nov/Dec as part of New Parent/Scout Orientation.

https://sites.google.com/site/bscoutst606/programs/tlt

• 1. Adult Training: CC

The following training are required(A&B)/recommended(C&D)/encouraged(E):

• • 1. “This is scouting”: On myscouting.org

    2. “Youth protection Training”: On myscouting.org

    3. Indoor training: “Boy Scout Scoutmaster Specific Training”

    4. Outdoor training: “Outdoor Leader Specific”

    5. Wood Badge training

Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Santa Clara Council training calendar:

            http://svmbc.org/svmbc/training/

T606 adult training recorded is recorded by Han on Google doc -  BSA_T606_Adult_Training_Record

• 1. Other opportunities to get involved:

A great way to know more about the troop is attending the committee meeting. You can get involved the BOR (Board of Review) if you see sign-up sheet.

• 1. T606 event:

You can check what troop activities we have done by checking the photos below:

https://sites.google.com/site/bscoutst606/photos

• 1. Other helpful scouting related website:

Boy Scouts of America: http://www.scouting.org/

Silicon Valley Monterey Bay: http://svmbc.org/svmbc/

            Merit Badge Resources: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

            MyScouting training: http://www.myscouting.org

USA Scouting Link: http://www.usascout.org/

• 1. Abbreviation: Below are some commonly used terms. Refer to TLT material

SM: Scoutmaster,                       ASM: Assistant Scoutmaster

SIC: Scout in Charge,                 AIC: Adult in Charge

SPL: Senior Patrol Leader,         PL: Patrol Leader

ASPL: Assistant SPL,                APL: Assistant PL

SMC: Scoutmaster Conference, BOR: Board of Review

COH: Court of Honor,                TLT: Troop Leadership Training