Troop 122 Meetings: Tuesdays 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Covenant Presbyterian Church – 326 S Segoe Rd, Madison, WI 53705 (Corner of Segoe and Mineral Point Roads, near Hamilton Middle School)
Please join us! – boys can attend or join at any time. Come and make new friends. Feel free to invite your friends to join too. Please see the Our Outings Page for information about our upcoming activities and outings – they are a great way to learn more about Troop 122!
Please call or email if you have questions –
Jerry Noel, Scoutmaster (608) 347-5661, madisontroop122@gmail.com
We invite you to join scouting!
What is Scouting?
Are you interested in camping, canoeing, hiking, and the outdoors? Want to learn how to find your way in the wilderness? Start a fire without a match? Sleep in a snow shelter and be warm? You can do all this and more in Scouting. Through scouting, boys will learn skills and have experiences they are unlikely to find anywhere else. As they build their skills in wilderness survival, outdoor cooking, first aid, and Leave No Trace camping they will learn self-confidence, teamwork, leadership, environmental awareness and community service. Boy Scouts are open to all boys from 5th through 12th grades. Applications can be found here Join Boy Scouts
Who are we?
Troop 122 has been active in Madison for 60 years. We meet Tuesday nights at 7 pm at Covenant Presbyterian Church, corner of Segoe and Mineral Point. The scouts will tell you the best part of scouting are the activities and outings! These include monthly weekend camping trips, such as snow shelters, backpacking, and skiing, as well as activities such as bowling, capture the flag, archery, and community service projects. During the summer we attend summer camp and go on high adventure trips. Recent high adventure trips included backpacking in the Wind River Range in Wyoming, the Live Aboard Scuba Adventure at the Boy Scout Sea Base in the Florida Keys, experiencing the wildness of Alaska, and kayaking in the Apostle Islands. For more about our trips see our About Troop 122 page.
Troop 122 is open to all boys and their families and does not discriminate for any reason.
Many of our activities are free. For outings with extra costs, scholarships are available.
Facts about Scouting:
- Scouts are Leaders: More than two-thirds of Scouts say there have been real life situations were Scout experience has helped them be a better leader.
- Scouts are Helpful: Over two-thirds of Scouts’ parents and Scouts themselves say their willingness to help others has increased since their involvement in Scouting.
- Scouts are Responsible: Over two-thirds of Scouts and their parents say their willingness to take on added responsibility has increased since their involvement in Scouting.
- Scouts earn Better Grades: Statistically, Scouts earn more “A’s” than their non-Scouting peers.
- Scouts have Higher Levels of Education: 91% of people who were Scouts completed high school, compared with 87% of those who were never Scouts, and 35% versus 19% earned college degrees!
- Scouts earn Higher Incomes: People who were Scouts, five years or more, earned average household incomes of $80,000 compared to $61,000 by those who weren’t.
- Scouts are Respectful: 80% of Scouts say that Scouting has taught them to treat others with respect.
- Scouts Do Their Best: 78% of Scouts say that Scouting has taught them to always give their best effort.
- Scouts Live by the Principles of the Scout Oath and Law: 84% of Scouts say the values they learned in Scouting continue to be very important to them today.
- Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is an Eagle Scout. When he said, “The Eagle has landed,” he wasn’t kidding. In 1969, Armstrong became the first Eagle Scout to be portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp – called “The Man on the Moon.”
- Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton became an Eagle Scout at age 13, businessman and philanthropist H. Ross Perot at 13, and President Gerald R. Ford at 14.
- Of 121 merit badges, the one earned most by Scouts across the country is First Aid.