Troop 5 -Blackhawk Area Council, IL

10/20/2026

We had a great night putting our pocket knife skills to work! 🎃 Thank you Pack 5 AOL scouts for joining us.

10/20/2026

Congratulations Hazel on earning your Life Rank! ⚜️

10/17/2026

Today was our last horse check for our Philmont Cavelcade trek!

10/10/2026

Doing a trail ride with an unassisted mounting & dismount check today. Our Philmont Cavalcade trek is only 9 months away! 🐎

10/06/2026

Using our lashings to build a usable stretcher.

09/22/2026

Tonight, Troop 5 had their fall Court of Honor. Scouts earned many merit badges, fun patches, and rank advancements. Audrey and Adeline were our MCs.

We were also able to celebrate Ava's Eagle rank. 🦅 Congratultions scouts on all of your accomplishments!

09/11/2026

Turtle TEK, a FIRST Robotics team in Beloit, WI is hosting their FREE Robotics Program for Scouts on October 15th at Beloit Public Library.

*Design a robot

*Build a robot

*Program a robot

*Drive a complex robot

*Learn about FIRST Robotics programs

Robotics Merit Badge- NO Prerequisites

5:30 to 7:00 with check-in at 5:20 for 6th grade and up.

We have a limit of 40 people per time slot. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask! RSVPs are required! Please let us know if you are attending by filling out the link below, once per time slot you are attending:

RSVP is required and space is limited This FREE event is being held on October 15th at The Beloit Public Library. We have two sessions, for two different age ranges: 2nd-5th grade 5:00pm-6:00pm 6th and above 5:30pm-7:00pm If you have scouts in both age ranges, please fill out this form twice, once f...

09/06/2026

This weekend, Lily completed her 2nd project for the Distinguished Conservation Award (formerly the Hornaday). She and her team built a native pollinator garden at Canyon Camp!

The finishing touch will be identification signs for the plants. Congratulations Lily!

*Less than 1% of scouts earn this award! Making this award rarer than earning the Eagle rank (2-4%)

08/31/2026

This weekend, our troop was able to get together and help Alyssa with her Eagle project. Alyssa is helping her church start a youth group and Sunday School class space. She and her team will be painting rooms, meeting space, drawing murals, and bringing in furniture. We can't wait to see how the space turns out.

08/21/2026

Come on out to the Winnebago County Fair. We'll be selling ice cream in Moss Hall all this week through Sunday.