Troop 762 provides scouting activities to young boys in the Yorba Linda, CA area. We are a scouts-led Troop, where the scouts plan the activities and make the decisions. Through those activities we strive to teach boys the principles of scouting through respect for the individual and to develop and use their potential to the best of their ability. With more than 130 Merit Badges -- from Archery and Art to Welding and Wilderness Survival -- Scouting is the ultimate form of learning by doing. Boy Scouts explore their interests and improve their skills while working toward Scouting’s highest rank: Eagle. By first imagining, planning then doing their own service projects, Boy Scouts learn the value of hard work, and experience the thrill of seeing it pay off. Add in outdoor adventures, hiking and camping, and Scouting gives boys all the experience they need to become men.
We go on monthly camping adventures where our scouts participate in activities like swimming, climbing walls, archery and wilderness survival. The scouts cook their own meals over camp fires and camp stoves, sing songs and play silly games. They study the natural world and the wildlife that lives in it while respecting the environment and leaving no trace when we go home. All of this we do in the spirit of scouting.
The Troop comprises on average of about 12 scouts in any given year, broken into patrols. Troop 762 has been an active troop since 1958. The Troop meets each Monday evening (apart from holidays) for about an hour. Troop meetings are held at the Yorba Linda Untied Methodist Church in the Fellowship Hall. Patrol meetings are held in various locations as organized by the patrol leaders.
Troop 762 is an out-of-doors oriented Troop. We have a very active outdoor program and all scouts are encouraged to participate. We go on monthly camping adventures where our scouts participate in activities like swimming, climbing walls, archery backpacking weekend outings, annual week long summer camp, and local day hikes. The scouts cook their own meals over camp stoves and camp fires (when permitted), and play silly games. They study the natural world and the wildlife that lives in it while respecting the environment and leaving no trace when we go home. All of this we do in the spirit of scouting.
Troop 762 also supports BSA events such as Camporee, Scout-o-Rama and training experiences.
We encourage scouts to become Eagle Scouts (but not at any cost). We offer a broad range of activities chosen by the scouts. Every fall, our PLC decides through input from all scouts, what activities they would like to do in the upcoming year. Our vision is to prepare every scout member to become a responsible, participating citizen, and leader who is guided by the Scout Oath and Law
On my honor, I will do my best. To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
As an American, I will do my best to -
Be clean in my outdoor manners.
Be careful with fire.
Be considerate in the outdoors.
Be conservation minded.
First and foremost: The Patrol is the character school for the individual. To the Patrol Leader it gives practice in Responsibility and in the qualities of Leadership. To the Scouts it gives subordination of self to the interests of the whole, the elements of self-denial and self-control involved in the team spirit of cooperation and good comradeship.
But to get first-class results from this system you have to give the boy leaders real free-handed responsibility-if you only give partial responsibility you will only get partial results. The main object is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy, since this is the very best of all means for developing character.
The Scoutmaster who hopes for success must not only study what is written about the Patrol System and its methods, but must put into practice the suggestions he reads. It is the doing of things that is so important, and only by constant trial can experience be gained by his Patrol Leaders and Scouts. The more he gives them to do, the more will they respond, the more strength and character will they achieve.
Robert Baden-Powell (1930) Aids to Scoutmastership
Meet the age requirements. Be a boy who is 11 years old, or one who has completed the fifth grade or earned the Arrow of Light Award and is at least 10 years old, but is not yet 18 years old. Complete a Boy Scout application and health history signed by your parent or guardian.
Please contact:
Committee Chair: Dan Dao committeechair@troop762.net
Scoutmaster: Ken Oyama scoutmaster@troop762.net Call or text (714) 989-6162