Future NESA Jamboree Participants,

I would like to welcome you to the home of the USNA-NESA 2010 Jamboree! All of us at the Naval Academy are excited about this yearly event and hope that we can provide yet another great opportunity for interested Scouts to come and visit us in Annapolis, MD. For those of you that have attended this event before, WELCOME BACK! For those who have not attended, we hope to see you this year!

If you attended last year, you are aware of the new program we started to reach out to inner-city Baltimore Scouters who are part of the Scout Reach Program. As a Scouting family, we feel it is important that everyone be able to experience the Naval Academy and the great opportunity the NESA Jamboree provides for Boy Scouts. As such, this year we will be running the same program. One of our goals is to increase our Scout Reach participants by 3x, allowing 60-80 Scout Reach Scouts to participate in the 2010 Jamboree. We ask that ALL Troops applying for the Jamboree this year keep that in mind and provide us with a reasonable estimate as to how many additional Scouts you will be able to accomodate. Once the event starts on Friday, the Scout Reach participants will be paired with other participating Troops and will stay with them until the conclusion of the Jamboree. Accomodations for the Scout Reach Scouters should include food, camping accomodations, and adult supervision.

As more information about the Jamboree becomes available, it will be posted on this website. Please feel free to contact me or anyone on my staff if you have questions or concerns and we will respond as soon as we can.

Once again, we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible join us this year and thank you for all of the help and support you have all provided for us. It is a privilege for us as Midshipmen to be able to give back to the community which has provided so much for us throughout the years.

Very Respectfully,

Will Cunha
MIDN USN
2010 Jamboree CO

14 September 2009 Update

Greetings Friends of Scouting! Over the past few weeks, the 2010 Jamboree Staff has been meeting to talk about the exciting event we are planning for this coming year. After discussing some of the challenges we faced in year's past, we have decided to steer the Jamboree in a little "different" direction for 2010. Due to our inability to offer unique merit badges at our Jamboree event, the 2010 Jamboree will focus more on the Navy and Marine Corps aspect of the United States Naval Academy.

What does this new direction mean to you? Due to our convenient location at the Naval Academy, we have a vast amount of resources available to us. As a result, we are going to be emphasizing events such as static displays related to the Navy and Marine Corps, land navigation, Damage Control training, Obstacle Course and Endurance Course training, Explosive Ordinance Disposal displays, Navy SEAL displays, etc. In addition to what was previously mentioned, instead of offering merit badges by themselves, we will be incorporating them with our "Navy/Marine Corps" theme. For instance, what better way to learn Fire Safety than aboard a Naval Academy Yard Patrol Craft? Or how about learning land navigation "the Marine Corps" way?

Although all of the details and events to be offered are not finalized, we felt as a Staff that it was important for you, as potential participants, to be aware of what the 2010 Jamboree was going to focus on. As future Navy and Marine Corps Officers, we don't know a better way to share the world of our military than to immerse Scouts into what the Navy and Marine Corps team does every day! We hope you enjoy the new program we will be developing over the coming months and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the 2010 USNA-NESA Jamboree!

Very Respectfully,

Will Cunha
MIDN USN
2010 Jamboree CO

After looking over all of the applications and talking with the NESA Staff, we have decided to invite everyone that applied to the Jamboree this year  We feel that our new location and the staff we have in place will be able to support the amount of interest we had this year.  We are excited to offer this opportunity to so many people this year and look forward to hosting you all in January.

Everyone should have received the “Registration Packet” for the 2010 Jamboree.  The document is written in Excel, so please let us know if you have trouble opening it.  Some things to keep in mind when filling this sheet out:

• Please note that the document has multiple tabs.  All need to be filled out 100% in order for you to be properly registered.
• All registration information, as well as payment, are due by Nov. 18, 2009. 
• We need all Troops to submit the form via email, as well as enclose a copy in the mail when you send the check.

For an overview of what the program is going to be this year, the OPS team has been hard at work designing a very exciting and different program.  Our goal is for all Scouts to earn at least 1 merit badge, with the hopes of earning 2.  Activities throughout the day will include team-building events, small unit tactics, leadership exercises, trying on military gear, close-order drill and uniform inspections, as well as recreational activities throughout the day.

Please inform your Scouts that this will be an action-packed, eventful weekend.  There are still a lot of plans in the works that we hope to be able to inform you of soon. 

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please send them our way.  1/C Alex Thiess (m106558@usna.edu)  will be collecting the registration packets, so please be sure to email him the registration form when you are done filling it out.

Very Respectfully,

Will Cunha
MIDN USN
2010 Jamboree CO

Information

Dates: January 15-17, 2010
Location: Naval Support Activity - Annapolis, MD

Merit Badges Offered:Motorboating, Fire Safety, Pioneering, Orienteering, Radio, Wilderness Survival, First Aid
Merit Badge Pre-Requisites: TBA
** ALL PARTICIPATING SCOUTS MUST BE 14 YEARS OF AGE AND AT LEAST FIRST CLASS RANK **

In addition, all participating Troops will be required to provide their own food and cooking/camping arrangements. If you have special circumstances, please contact the Registration POC (Alex Thiess) directly.