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A girl in a Lion den in an early adopter Cub Scout pack shows off her Pinewood Derby car. On the heels of a successful pilot that introduced new families to Scouting and raised retention rates, Lions, the BSA’s Cub Scout program for kindergarten-age youth, will become an official part of Cub Scouting this year.
First Aid? First place. Exactly 69,563 Scouts earned the Eagle-required First Aid merit badge in 2017. That’s good enough for a gold medal, and it marks three consecutive years of First Aid dominance. The silver medal went to Swimming (62,057 earned), and Citizenship in the World (55,917) took bronze.
Larry Bacow, a Distinguished Eagle Scout who is “one of the most experienced and respected leaders in American higher education,” will be the next president of Harvard University. Harvard announced the selection on Sunday , calling Bacow someone who has “the curiosity and keen intelligence of a scholar and teacher, the vision and steady hand of…
Longtime Boys’ Life readers watching the Winter Olympics on Saturday night heard a familiar name: Red Gerard. The world was captivated as the 17-year-old snowboarder soared, twisted and flipped his way to Team USA’s first gold medal of the Games.
Throughout your time as a Scouter, you’ve helped young people shine. You’ve watched them plan trips — and then driven them safely to their destination. You’ve mentored from the sidelines as they take on top leadership roles. You’ve smiled with pride as they enjoyed one life-changing adventure after another.
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and the youngest son of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and Queen Elizabeth II, presents awards at a ceremony in Tennessee. Earning the Eagle Scout Award or Venturing Summit Award opens doors. The awards are a proven launchpad in the United States, sending a young man or young woman on…
Today, Venturers everywhere have the green light to party. That’s because today is the Venturing program’s 20th birthday! The BSA’s executive board created the older-youth program on Feb. 9, 1998. In the 20 years since, Venturing has enabled more than 1 million young men and young women to choose their own adrenaline-packed adventures.
Eagle Scout Chris Fogt (right) with fellow bobsledder Justin Olsen. It doesn’t get much more all-American than this. Chris Fogt, 34, is an Eagle Scout. He’s a three-time Olympian in bobsled. And he’s a major in the U.S. Army who spent a year deployed in Iraq.
The Boy Scouts of America turns 109 years young on Feb. 8, 2019. What do you get the youth movement that has everything? A list of 109 Scouts who became famous. The list includes presidents and Pulitzer Prize recipients, astronauts and athletes, celebrities and CEOs.
Justin Krewson is one of the world’s best at sliding 80 miles an hour down an icy track. So good, in fact, that he’ll represent Team USA in the luge doubles event at the 2018 Winter Olympics this month. Before he was into sliding, Krewson was into Scouting.
Taylor Morris’ progress toward the Eagle Scout rank was lagging when his parents made him a deal. Finish Eagle, they said, and you’ll get your driver’s license. That did the trick. Morris earned Eagle in 2009, as a member of Venturing Crew 2834 of South Jordan, Utah.
Updated with final results. Three members of the Team USA delegation competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics are Eagle Scouts, the National Eagle Scout Association has confirmed. The list includes two members of the luge team — one in singles and one in doubles — and one bobsledder.
For 108 years, “the Scouts have never failed to live up to the motto: Be Prepared. So are they prepared for the challenge of a changing America?” And so began the Feb. 4, 2018, episode of CBS Sunday Morning . The 90-minute newsmagazine, which averages between 5 million and 6 million viewers a week, made the…
It’s Groundhog Day, and there’s just one question on everyone’s mind: Will Scouting magazine release a list of the top five merit badges to celebrate this essential holiday? The answer: Yes. Mammal Study Ah, the groundhog. Marmota monax. America’s cuddliest rodent.
One of the most popular sections of Boys’ Life magazine is Scouts in Action , a cartoon-style retelling of a true story of life-saving heroism. What you might not know is that it’s sometimes difficult to convince a heroic Scout to let the BL editors tell his story in the magazine.
You’ve probably heard of the World Friendship Fund. You might even have donated a few bucks to the cause at summer camp, roundtable, a training session like Wood Badge or a Scout’s Own worship service. But what is the World Friendship Fund?
Update Feb. 5, 2018 : Congratulations to Donnie Jones, Eagle Scout and Super Bowl champion! It’s only fitting that Donnie Jones would make it to his first Super Bowl as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles. After all, the veteran punter is an Eagle Scout.
Tiger Scout Zachary Hearon looked over his grandfather’s Scouting memorabilia displayed at his pack’s blue and gold banquet. He was fascinated with the Eagle Scout award. His grandfather, Russell Hayes, earned his Eagle in 1965 while a member of Explorer Post 44 in Millville, New Jersey.
On a tree-lined farm in Tennessee, you’ll find one of the coolest places in the country to be a Boy Scout. Troop 137 meets in an old barn in Franklin, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville. Its horse stalls have been converted into patrol meeting rooms.
Few troops can count astronauts among their alumni. Only one can say it was the troop where a future U.S. president became an Eagle Scout. Troop 215 of Grand Rapids, Mich., can claim both. The troop, which turns 100 on Feb.
On July 31, 1948, William “Green Bar Bill” Hillcourt served as Scoutmaster at the first official Wood Badge course in the United States. Seventy years later, Wood Badge has grown into an essential training experience for adult volunteers. You’ll find proud Wood Badge alumni — myself included — in every council in the country.
Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced this morning, and if you’re a movie buff, that will probably put you in the mood to pop some popcorn and watch a film. But you’re also a Scouter, so now could also be a good time to dive into some cinematic activities with your Scouts before…
The flames burned so hot that they melted aluminum canoes into silver puddles of metal, rendered camping gear unrecognizable and warped Dutch ovens. The Tubbs Fire, which burned for more than three weeks in October 2017 in Northern California, destroyed 5,643 structures and killed 22 people.
While no Scouter questions the value of Youth Protection training and policies — we all agree on the need to keep young people safe — some Scouters have asked for clarification about implementation. Many of those questions are about policies requiring two-deep leadership and prohibiting one-on-one contact.
A Boy Scout from Washington, D.C., and a Venturer from Cincinnati were selected to join a leg of National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek’s 21,000-mile walk around the world . Christopher Sherman and Miciah Thacker penned thoughtful essays reflecting on their experiences at Philmont and the 2017 National Jamboree, respectively.
Sales of Band-Aids were flagging until Johnson & Johnson made an ingenious marketing move. In the 1920s, the company began distributing, for free, an unlimited supply of Band-Aids to Boy Scout troops across the country, according to this lesson from TED-Ed .
Three boys in the Lennon family earned the Eagle rank. So did the three boys in the Smith family, who live behind the Lennons. Two families with six Eagle Scouts living within a block of each other in Bridgeville, Pa.
Sea Base Capt. Steve Cansler, who ran the Bahamas-based sailing adventures at the BSA’s Florida Sea Base, died Dec. 24, 2017. He was 65. During Capt. Steve’s time in the Bahamas, countless Scouts and Venturers arrived with high expectations but little sailing experience.
Cheerful service to others is at the heart of the Order of the Arrow, Scouting’s national honor society. In that spirit, Arrowmen are invited to spend their spring break helping BSA camps in Florida and Puerto Rico rebuild after last year’s devastating hurricane season.
Top row, from left: National chief Anthony Peluso and national vice chief Michael Kipp. Bottom row, from left: Northeast Region chief Justin St. Louis, Southern Region chief Zach Callicutt, Central Region chief Will Coots and Western Region chief Jordan Jefferis.
Sometimes, we come across news that humbles us, filling our thoughts with gratitude and introspection. Such was the case with the passing of Kazimierz Piechowski last month. When he was a young man, he embodied the “A Scout is Brave” point of the Scout Law while facing imminent death.
Yes, you can be a successful student, top-tier athlete and Eagle Scout. The latest in a lengthy list of examples: Jackson Harris, a junior tight end for the University of Georgia. Georgia will face Alabama tonight in the college football championship.
Weather that’s so cold it makes your eyelashes freeze makes for an unforgettable Scouting experience. It also makes for a memorable magazine cover. The February 2017 cover of Boys’ Life , featuring an image by W. Garth Dowling, has been selected as a finalist in the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Best Cover Contest.
A couple of weeks ago, we shared a story about Daniel Konzelman , a 24-year-old Eagle Scout who helped rescue passengers after a deadly Amtrak train derailment in DuPont, Wash. We caught up with Konzelman and discovered that the Dec. 18 tragedy wasn’t the first emergency he or his four brothers — all of whom are Eagle…
The calendar says 2018, which means it’s time to start thinking about Scout Sunday, Scout Sabbath and Scout Jumuah. Scheduled in close proximity to the BSA’s birthday on Feb. 8, these three days celebrate the connection between Scouting and our faith-based chartered partners.
Before Eagle Scout Jeremy Fogg tries to Beat Bobby Flay on the popular Food Network series, let’s look back on a similarly tough cooking competition. I’m referring, of course, to the Dutch Oven Cobbler Cookoff at summer camp. At the time, Fogg was an adult leader in Troop 787 of Winter Springs, Fla.
If you want to see which institutes of higher learning place a high value on the Eagle Scout Award, simply follow the money. That trail might take you to Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia. Eagle Scouts who attend Hampden-Sydney, the 10th oldest college in the U.S., receive an automatic scholarship worth $5,000 per year for four…
As we count down the final days, hours and minutes of 2017, I wanted to share a little countdown of my own. Today we’ll look at the 10 Bryan on Scouting stories with the most clicks in 2017. You might call them “the posts with the most.”
A Scout hike likely conjures up images of journeying by a pristine lake, hiking staff in hand, surrounded by tall trees with a view of snowcapped mountains in the distance. Or for one Ohio Scout, it could mean touring the streets of downtown Manhattan.
The Inspiration Awards are looking to honor a young person age 16 to 21 whose leadership skills and passion for the outdoors inspire us all. Reading that description, it shouldn’t surprise you that a Boy Scouts of America member has won the Youth category each of the three years of the award’s existence.
Fishing has been a part of Scouting since the very beginning. In fact, Scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell once said, “every Scout ought to be able to fish in order to get food for himself.” That longstanding angling tradition — coupled with the sport’s continued popularity today — makes this contest opportunity one I simply had to pass…
The BSA announced it will release Scoutbook Lite, a new tool for quickly inputting advancement data, in the second quarter of 2018. This free solution will replace the current Internet Advancement platform, which will be retired. Scoutbook Lite will feature a slick new user interface.
Daniel Konzelman, a 24-year-old Eagle Scout, was driving to work with his girlfriend when he noticed an Amtrak train zipping past him. He was cruising along at 60 or 65 mph, so he knew the train was going faster than that.
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree, how Scouty are thy branches. Charles Boone, an Eagle Scout from Dormont, Pa., showed off the Scouting-themed Christmas tree he’s rocking around this year. Instead of traditional ornaments, Charles embellished his tree with patches earned during his years in Scouting.
Josh Hughes admits he wasn’t the perfect Boy Scout. He participated in the program for only a couple of months, but his short time in Scouting made a lasting impact. The owner of Emerald Tattoo and Piercing ensures his three California shops give back through charity drives and donations to the community.
From left: Seven, Nick, Ollie and Leo Cantos. (Photo via National Capital Area Council, BSA) Blind triplets Leo, Nick and Steven Cantos didn’t take any shortcuts on their way to becoming Eagle Scouts. They completed the same rigorous requirements as everyone else who has earned Scouting’s highest honor.
Think of a youth or adult in Sea Scouting who has gone above and beyond to support the program. Someone who is the first to volunteer to run special events or take on new responsibilities. Someone who exemplifies the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
In one way, Troop 2690 is unique. Incorporating young men from three different Cleveland-area mosques, it’s the first all-Muslim Boy Scout troop in northeast Ohio. In another way, Troop 2690 is like every other Boy Scout troop in the country.
They’re carried on Philmont’s trails and clipped to canoe thwarts at Northern Tier. You’ll find them on every Florida Sea Base trek and Summit Bechtel Reserve adventure, too. But you might be surprised to learn that Nalgene water bottles were created as lab equipment — not camping gear.
Witnessing the mystical, colorful northern lights tops many people’s bucket lists, usually because it’s assumed the only place to see the natural phenomena is near the Arctic Circle. Another assumption is that the time to see them is just during the winter months.
