Welcome to NNJ Journey to Excitement! This newsletter highlights all of the great programs that happened in our council over the last month. If you want your unit, event, or program to be featured for all to see, submit photos and descriptions to communications@nnjbsa.org.

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Ramapo Valley hosted their annual Scouting for Food Drive on December 5, and had a great turn out. They collected over 1.5 tons of food or over 1200 bags. The Center for Food Action picked up the food and distributed it to needy families in our area.

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On Wednesday December 9, Pack 192 of Wayne held a virtual holiday meeting and made gingerbread houses together. Scouts used a variety of different building materials to make their houses: some used kits; others used graham crackers; and all of them used creativity and holiday spirit! While the annual holiday pack meeting looked different this year nothing could diminish the spirit of the Scouts. A Scout is Cheerful!

Over 220 participants from 25 states, France, Germany, and Japan joined us for our first ever Cub Scout virtual winter camp. Scouts worked towards earning their Nova Wild and Science Everywhere STEM Nova Awards as well as an Adventure. If every Cub Scout completes all requirements, we will be awarding 224 Adventures, 109 STEM Nova, Science Everywhere awards, and 107 STEM Nova, Nova Wild Awards.

Our Scouting community came together in support of the Northern New Jersey Council like never before through virtual events, speaker fundraising events, and personal contributions!

Our mission is to serve others by helping to instill values in young people and prepare them to make ethical choices over their lifetimes, regardless of social, economic or ethnic background. The commitment from our supporters helps us to offer Scouting programs that include Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, Venturing, Exploring, Scoutreach and STEM Scouts to the more than 15,000 youth served annually. To be inspired and learn more about the benefit of Scouting check out our

NNJC Mission Video today!

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Scouting has been a part of the northern New Jersey family story for over 110 years. Generations of Scouts fondly remember pinewood derbies, camporees, Scoutfest, Weboree and camping at No-Be-Bo-Sco, Turrell, Floodwood, Lewis and Yaw Paw. We are committed to future generations enjoying the same Scouting magic!

As we promote Scouting in our community, some people may have questions about our youth protection policies and how we keep kids safe. Each question is an opportunity to shed light on the important policies and procedures we’ve put in place that make Scouting safer than ever before.