About Pack 255
What is Cub Scouting?
Cub Scouting is a year-round program designed for girls and boys in kindergarten through 5th grades. The program emphasizes shared leadership, learning about the community, citizenship training, and personal fitness. Most of all, it emphasizes fun.
How Does it Work?
The program is run by parent volunteers who are supported by a great network of training, program development, and materials provided by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The Pack is made up of Dens, which are groups of girls and boys in the same grade. The Dens stay together as the Cubs grow older, progressing through each year of the ranks within Cub Scouts.
About Pack 255
Cubs attend approximately two meetings and go on one outing per month.
The Pack meets once per month at 6:30pm at the Chevy Chase United Methodist Church at 7001 Connecticut Avenue. Each Den also meets once per month and goes on outings together as a small group.
Pack 255 is part of the Boy Scouts of America, National Capital Area Council, Potomac District. Our Chartering Organization is Chevy Chase United Methodist Church.
What We Do
Have Fun Outdoors
Cub Scouts camp, hike and enjoy the outdoors. Pack 255 Scouts have:
Skied and snowboarded
Camped
Learned to whittle
Hunted for fossils
Hiked in hills, woods, and nature reserves
Service
Cub Scouts serve their communities. Pack 255 Scouts have:
Engaged in Scouting for Food, a national annual food drive benefiting local food banks
Taken part in weed clearance, trash cleanups, and other conservation projects
Fun Projects
Cub Scouts build things. Pack 255 Scouts have:
Made and raced sailboats and cars
Competed to make catapults
Built and launched rockets at NASA Goddard
Pack 255 is part of The 255 Family of Scouting groups
BSA Scout Troop 255 (youths in grades 6-12) focuses on having fun through outdoor adventure while fostering character development, leadership skills, and citizenship. In addition to weekly meetings, there are monthly campouts, summer camp, high adventure treks, and community service projects.
Ship 255 is dedicated to providing youths of ages 14-21 with life skills, leadership skills, and water based fun. For over 100 years Sea Scouting has promoted better citizenship and improved members’ boating skills through instruction and practice in water safety, boating skills, outdoor, social, service experiences, and knowledge of our maritime heritage.