Events
September 8, 2023
6:30 pm @ St. Victor
September Pack Meeting/Parent Orientation
We will have an opportunity to orient parents to our program and our plans for this program year. If you are a new family to our pack, you won't want to miss this meeting! Hope to see you there!
The potluck assignments are as follows:
TBD
September 23, 2023
TBD
Community Clean Up Day
TBD
October 7-8, 2023
3pm-10pm (Sat), 11am-3pm (Sun) @ St. Victor
St. Victor Parish Festival
Help us kick off each day's events with a flag ceremony and stay to help operate the soda and water booth! Sign up here to volunteer!
October 20, 2023
6:30 pm @ St. Victor
October Pack Meeting
TBD
October 28, 2023
Drop off door hangers
Scouting For Food
Do you know about Scouting for Food? It’s been a project of the BSA for decades. Held in November each year in our council, Scouts drop off door hangers no later than the 1st Saturday of November and return the 2nd Saturday of November, taking the bags of food to local food banks.
View den zone assignments here.
November 3, 2023
6:30 pm @ St. Victor Parish Hall
November Pack Meeting
TBD
November 4, 2023
Food pickup
Scouting For Food
Do you know about Scouting for Food? It’s been a project of the BSA for decades. Held in November each year in our council, Scouts drop off door hangers no later than the 1st Saturday of November and return the 2nd Saturday of November, taking the bags of food to local food banks.
View den zone assignments here.
December 8, 2023
6:30 pm @ St. Victor Parish Hall
December Pack Meeting
TBD
January 5, 2024
6:30 pm @ St. Victor Parish Hall
Pinewood Derby Workshop
Use this time to work on your Pinewood Derby car! Please bring tools and snacks you would like to share!
January 20, 2024
TBD @ St. Victor Parish Hall
Pinewood Derby
8am setup, 9am car inspection, 10am - 11am: race + clean-up + award presentation.
Potluck assignments:
TBD
Register cars by TBD: Car Registration
February 5, 2024
TBD @ St. Victor Church
Scout Sunday
All scouts and scout families are welcome, you do not have to be a parishioner to attend! Attendance at this mass can be an opportunity to fulfill some Duty to God rank requirements. All scouts and scout leaders will have the opportunity to walk in the procession, but if your scout would like to participate in the mass as a gift bearer, reader or usher please submit volunteer names to Lara Kim.
February 9, 2024
TBD @ St. Victor Parish Hall
Blue and Gold Banquet
You are invited to attend Pack 165's annual birthday party celebrating the birth of Scouting in America! This year's theme is TBD. Scouts should be in uniform for this meeting but family and guests are welcome to attend dressed in comic book hero related attire.
Sign up for potluck here.
March 8, 2024
6:30 pm @ St. Victor Parish Hall
March Pack Meeting
Please don't forget to bring potluck items as assigned below:
TBD
March 10, 2024
3 pm @ St. Joseph Cathedral Basilica
Prayer Service and Recognition Ceremony
The 2023 Prayer Service and Recognition Ceremony will be held Sunday, March 10 at 3:00 p.m. at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph with Bishop Oscar Cantú presiding.
March 18-19, 2024
TBD
Pack Special Event
TBD
April 12, 2024
6:30 pm @ St. Victor Parish Hall
April Pack Meeting
We will be conducting a uniform inspection at this meeting! Please help your scout ensure that all awarded badges are sewn onto their uniform in the proper place.
Cub Scout Uniform Inspection Sheet
Webelos Uniform Inspection Sheet
Please don't forget to bring potluck items as assigned below:
TBD
April 27, 2024
@ St. Victor Field
Bridging Ceremony
All Cub Scouts will be honored in a ceremony to be held at TBD on the St. Victor Field.
The Cub Scout program year culminates in the time-honored Bridging Ceremony. In this memorable event, Pack 165 will recognize the accomplishments of each scout over the course of the program year by presenting rank badges the scouts have earned through their completion of rank requirements, and confer their promotion to the next higher rank through the scouts' symbolic act of crossing a bridge.
Please sign up for potluck here!
May 10, 2024
6:30 pm @ St. Victor Parish Hall
May Pack Meeting
Please don't forget to bring potluck items as assigned below:
TBD
May 11, 2024
10am-4pm
@ History Park San Jose
1650 Senter Rd, San Jose, CA 95112
Scout-O-Rama
Over 120 interactive, hands-on “booths” filled with fun and play hosted by local units and community partners and local food trucks on standby. We expect over 4,000 active participants from young children to the young at heart.
A few ways you will have fun being a Scout for a day:
Make & Blast off a water rocket * Walk a Monkey Bridge * Play life size Chess, Box Hockey & Jenga * Make Crafts Galore * Shoot a Bow & Arrow * Throw a Tomahawk * Shoot a BB Gun * Race a Pinewood Derby Car * Check out some camp-fire cooking *
May 25, 2024
10am @ Oak Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park
Memorial Day Flag Placement
The staff of Oak Hill Memorial Park invites Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts to help place U.S. Flags at the graves of military veterans for Memorial Day. This is an opportunity for the Scouts to understand the importance of Memorial Day and to pay respect to the military veterans who so bravely helped to protect our country.
Following the flag placement activity, the Oak Hill staff will host a BBQ for all those who volunteered.
Download details here.
June 8, 2024
TBD
Bike Rodeo
Kick off summer with a bike rodeo! Cub scouts will learn bike safety, bike through different obstacle courses, and have fun with their dens! There will be helmet checks and if your scout doesn't have a helmet, come to this event to get one for FREE! Siblings are invited as well! Bring a friend who is interested in joining our pack! This will be a great event for them to come meet us, hang out, and get a free helmet!
This event will cover adventures for Wolves, Bears, and Webelos. Webelos can join in the fun and also work on earning the Sportsman and Readyman Activity Badges.
June 2024
Camp Chesebrough
Webelos Resident Camp
Cub Scouts who are ready for the chance to try real Cub Scout camping can participate in our Cub Scout Resident Camps. Campers will spend 3 night participating in fun stations like BB, archery, hikes, knot typing, crafts, games and more. Click here for more information. Resident camp is only for scouts completing third and fourth grade this year.
Fulfills CS Outdoor Activity Award requirement to "attend a Cub Scout day camp or Cub Scout/Webelos resident camp.
Summer 2024
8am-4pm @ Lake Cunningham Park
Cub Camp Lake Cunningham
Lake Cunningham Cub Camp (TBD) continues to be one of the most popular cub camps at SVMBC. Our focus is on fun, scout skills, Cub Scout elective adventures, and shooting sports.
We commit to delivering opportunities for each rank to earn at least 2 elective adventures and we help Cub Scouts earn shooting sports patches and pins for all three sports (BB, archery, and slingshots) for each rank.
Friday we spend at Raging Waters for a day of fun in the sun and water slides.
Fulfills CS Outdoor Activity Award requirement to "attend a Cub Scout day camp or Cub Scout/Webelos resident camp."
Summer 2024
6pm @ San Jose Municipal Stadium
San Jose Giants Scout Night Camp Out
Camp out on the outfield grass, watch a movie on the video board, participate in a pregame scout parade around the warning track and enjoy a light breakfast in the morning. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts welcome. Call 408.380.4518 for more information. If you would like to be included in the Pack 165 group ticket purchase to ensure you sit with the pack, please sign up here! Download the flyer here!
Fulfills CS Outdoor Activity Award requirements to "participate in an outdoor sporting event" and "attend a pack overnighter."