Sign in to plan the year, prepare for adventures, and remember what the troop accomplished.
Use any approved email provider. Basecamp applies the same troop profile, role, and permissions after either sign-in method.
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Trail Briefing
Welcome to Basecamp
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Your Role
What this role owns
Youth Leadership Workspace
Patrol workspace
The Patrol Leader owns the patrol’s preparation and voice. Adults can coach and remove blockers without taking over these decisions.
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Focus Now
Checking what matters most…
Basecamp is looking for your highest-priority real responsibility.
Your Trail Today
Things to keep moving
Only real assignments, decisions, and follow-ups appear here.
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Checking your Basecamp work…This will stay quiet when nothing needs your attention.
Up Next
The next item on the official troop calendar.
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Troop 826
Gear in Your Care
Equipment currently assigned to you.
Equipment Out With the Troop
A Quartermaster view of equipment currently checked out.
Outside Opportunities
Up to three current Council, District, and partner opportunities.
Announcement management
Contributors can submit notices. Only system administrators can activate or decline them.
Patrols
Active Scouts
PLC Staff
Current leadership
Keep Exploring
One place worth remembering
A saved place from your real Basecamp trail list.
Your Next Horizon
Keep the troop moving forward
PrepareLead with care
Recently Completed
Finished tasks and research visible to you.
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Useful shortcuts
Working Basecamp tools available to your role.
The rest of Basecamp
Activities & Troop Tools
Open the working areas available to your role without crowding the main trail navigation.
Beyond Troop 826
Announcements & Opportunities
Council, district, and community opportunities worth knowing about. Items leave this page automatically after they pass.
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How this works
Clearly separate from troop events
Every item identifies its source. Dated opportunities also appear on the Basecamp calendar, while the three nearest current opportunities appear on the Home briefing.
Your Basecamp work
My List
Assignments, leadership responsibilities, research, reviews, and follow-ups that need your attention.
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Completed WorkFinished tasks, research, and leadership work
Remember
Past Adventures
Published troop activities, attendance, camping nights, photos, and lessons learned.
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Remember what happened
Troop Memory
Approved stories and records that help the troop remember its adventures in the Scouts’ own voice.
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A record, not just a calendar
Troop Memory preserves the story after an event is complete. Published memories can help future Scouts learn from where the troop has been.
Scout-authored stories keep their original meaning.
Unreviewed material stays private.
Scribe Field Guide
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Administrator workspace
Recruiting Readiness
Review school campaigns, active images, visit activity, and public-information blockers before anything is published.
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Configured does not mean published
Basecamp keeps campaign preparation separate from public approval. This screen contains no prospective-family contact details.
Publishing blockers
Resolve these before treating any recruiting material as current public information.
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Active image inventory
Internal campaign assets and their recorded sources.
Questions · Suggestions · Follow-up
Help & Support
Ask one clear question or suggest a Basecamp improvement. Your message stays connected to your account and the screen where you sent it.
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Your recent notes
Only you and authorized troop administrators can see these records.
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Administrator follow-up queue
Questions and suggestions that may need a response.
Recent Basecamp access
A limited administrative record of successful Google sign-ins.
Places Basecamp knows
Explore Places
Find campgrounds, parks, Scout camps, activities, amenities, and places the troop has visited.
Confirmed information only. A place without an activity or amenity tag means Basecamp does not know yet—not that the answer is No. Search results explain their confirmed matches.
Choose one more placeCompare two or three places using only confirmed Basecamp information.
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Discover · Learn · Do · Earn
Merit Badge Resource Center
Find official requirements, troop counselor coverage, and only worksheets that have completed the governed review process.
Start with a conversation
Talk with the Scoutmaster before beginning a Merit Badge when appropriate. Use Basecamp to learn what is available and prepare for the work.
DiscoverLearnDoEarn
Basecamp does not replace official advancement.
Requirements and counselor signoff remain authoritative. Private counselor contact information is never shown here.
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Plan · Shop · Pack · Cook · Reconcile
Grubmaster Center
Current troop forms and reviewed recipe support for Scout-led camp food planning.
The Scout does the work
The patrol creates the menu and shopping list. The Grubmaster checks existing supplies, makes the choices, shops, packs, cooks, and finishes the reconciliation. Adults coach and transport without taking over.
PlanShopPackCookReconcile
Current information only.
Basecamp publishes approved forms immediately, but recipes stay hidden until they are marked Scout-facing and complete safety review.
Approved Grubmaster tools
Use the fillable version on a device or the printable version on paper.
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Reviewed troop recipes
Only recipes approved for Scouts appear here.
People
Troop Directory
Current live roster organized for quick use.
Role abbreviations work too: SPL, ASPL, PL, APL, QM, TG, SM, ASM, JASM, MBC, and Webmaster.
Current term
Troop Leadership
Youth leadership and registered adult positions from the live workbook.
Youth Leadership
Adult Leadership
Prepare · Lead · Remember
Leadership Support
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Tools for Scouts who lead the meeting
Basecamp puts the right PLC forms and responsibilities in one place without taking over the Scouts’ decisions.
Only meeting leaders receive agenda support.
Scouts decide; Basecamp helps organize and remember.
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Meeting leader workspace
Prepare one meeting at a time. Basecamp records what Scouts plan and decide.
Preview required before saving.
Recent meeting records
Equipment Request
Tell the Quartermaster what the patrol needs. Choose the items and quantities yourself.
This is a request, not a reservation or checkout.
Preview required before submitting.
Recent requests
Meeting and PLC tools
Only approved current versions are shown.
Responsibilities to practice
Focused guidance for the current leadership role.
Explore
Skits Library
Approved Scout-facing skits from the Troop 826 library.
Suggest a skit
Send an original skit or a skit you know to an adult for review. Demo submissions stay isolated and cannot enter the approval or publishing queue.
Preview required before saving or sending.
Submission status
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Current library
Resources
Approved current forms, guides, policies, and references.
Record a resource review
This records a governance decision without replacing or publishing a file. Demo Mode creates an isolated practice review.
Preview required before saving.
Assign an event responsibility
Connect an approved resource to one real event, patrol, and Scout. This creates an assignment only—the Scout starts the actual form.
Assignments do not publish the event, change inventory, or reopen Event Signup.
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Current event responsibilities
Troop schedule
Calendar
Official troop events and dated opportunities, with their source clearly labeled.
The next events stay here while you browse other months.
Current month
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Upcoming events
Event Signup
See which Basecamp events have signup open and preview every change before saving your answer.
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Preview before savePreview is required before your response is saved.
Turn signup on
Choose an existing Basecamp event. Preview is required before the signup opens.
Leader tool
Preview required. This will not publish or change the Google Calendar.
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Troop equipment
Quartermaster
Current equipment, checkouts, and items that need attention.
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Move equipment
Find the asset, then preview every checkout or return before it changes the inventory.
Enter an ID, or scan a barcode or QR label. Finding an item does not move it.
Preview required before saving.
Report an equipment problem
Create a repair or inspection follow-up without changing the equipment status.
Preview required before saving.
Move bulk supplies
Checkout or return a counted quantity without changing total on-hand stock.
Preview required before saving.
Incoming equipment requests
Requests from the SPL and Patrol Leaders. These quantities are planning context only; equipment is not reserved or checked out until the Quartermaster records the actual movement.
Current checkouts
Needs attention
Recent activity
Latest 10
Equipment catalog
Individually tracked equipment and bulk-count supplies.
Demo Mode supports checkouts, returns, and follow-ups using only the clearly labeled practice equipment. Bulk-count supplies remain Live-only.
Scout-led year
Annual Program
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Build the Year
Planning
One connected Scout-led process, with each major stage kept focused and understandable.
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From Explore Places
Planning with a place
Your place context will stay here while you review Planning Ideas.
Continue the troop planning journey.Open the part of the process that needs attention without losing the live planning context.
Focused planning workspace
My Ideas
My Ideas
What sounds good next year?
Basecamp remembers what is already here. Add only what you want the troop to consider.
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Already saved
Saved progress follows you between devices
Scout Ideas
What did everyone come up with?
See what the troop suggested, who mentioned it, and what is already being researched.
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Active planning cycle
Scout input
Planning stages
Live, non-demo records only
Active planning workspace
Permission-controlled workspace
Scout selections
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Research assignments
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New ideas to review
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Planning cycle settings
Adults set the guardrails. The Scout leader runs the planning process.
Scout input rules and participation
Set the minimum and maximum choices for each planning question, then see overall participation progress.
Build the year
Add what the PLC has chosen. Basecamp records the plan; it does not choose for the troop.
Add a scheduled event
Use this after the event and dates are real. This records the operational event in Basecamp; it does not publish to the official Google Calendar or open Event Signup.
Authorized leaders
Event Signup remains disabled. After saving here, update the official troop Google Calendar separately if this event should appear on the Calendar tab.
Preview required before saving.
Submit and review the proposed year
The PLC submits the full plan when it is ready. The committee can approve it or return it with a question.
Preview required before saving.
Share the approved annual program
After adult approval, make the Scout-led year available to all Scouts. Sharing can be stopped without deleting the plan.
Preview required before saving.
Audited write foundation installed · live writes disabled. The existing Apps Script planner remains the production system for changes.