Welcome!
Our troop uses this website for communications, event planning, even to collect most payments for the trips that the boys/troop will go on throughout the year.
If you are joining our troop, then joining this website is the first step. When you sign up, which is covered in more detail here, you will be allowed to choose your option to pay the initial fee for your scout. First time scouts joining the troop are assessed a higher joining fee then the yearly renewal - this is due to new scout costs for tents and other gear, and for a gift that your scout will get from the troop when he earns his Totin' Chip.
There are two types of memberships: Family, and Individual Adult. Most people will get the Family membership, and when that membership is approved by the Troop leaders who administer this site, you will be able to sign in and click the Profile link in the upper left hand corner of the page. There, under the profile options, you will see the option for "Secondary / Family Members" - click this to set up sub-accounts for your spouse, a 2nd email address that you might want to use, and for your Boy Scout.
Create a sub-account for your Boy Scout even if he does not have his own email address. Memberships in the forums and groups will be done using his own ID rather than his parent's or guardian's so that if he does get his own email address later, he can change it in his profile and none of the membership information at the site will have to be updated.
The Individual Adult member type is specifically for adults joining the Troop that do not have a spouse or children, such as when a boy who has turned 18 wishes to stay active in the troop.
When joining Boy Scouts, whether you are a transfer from Cub Scouts or not, a BSA Youth Application needs to be completed as well. If you have not already done so, please download the BSA 28-406 Youth Application form and complete it, and then turn it in to a Troop 793 adult leader. If you do not wish to fill out the form repeatedly, you have two options: 1. If you do not need a copy for yourself, please fill out only the "Local Council Copy" page - the troop will make copies for its own records. 2. Obtain the application in non-PDF (e.g. physical form) from a troop leader, scout shop, National Pike District meeting, or Baltimore Council office and complete it - it is a multi-part form that creates the copies as you complete it (use a ball-point pen and press firmly).
All of this information and a little more is contained within this Troop 793 New Scout Quick Start Guide - right click on that link and save it to your hard drive, as well as the above youth application before continuing off of this page to the new user sign-up.