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The coolest thing to hit the streets of central Ohio isn’t a flashy sports car or tricked-out truck. It’s Troop 510’s new trailer. Michael Brooks created the airbrushed design. Brooks is one of the adult volunteers with the New Concord, Ohio, troop and its associated Venturing Crew 510.
You can make Cub Scout day camp or twilight camp a fun and memorable learning experience for everyone involved. All you need to do is Be Prepared. First, some definitions: Cub Scout day camp : An organized outdoor experience for a group of Cub Scouts, typically run by districts and/or councils.
Steve Ballmer, owner of the NBA’s LA Clippers, was a special guest at the Greater Los Angeles Area Council’s Business Leaders’ Breakfast last month. During his remarks, which you can watch in full below, Ballmer offered several nuggets of wisdom about leadership.
Because he devoted so much of his life to Scouting, Bill Hemenway was many different things to countless Scouts and Scouters. To some he was a troopmate or Order of the Arrow brother. To others, he was a Cubmaster or Scoutmaster.
The Fox reality show Kicking & Screaming pairs hardcore survivalists with people who have far less experience in the outdoors. Now that Eagle Scout Terry Fossum has made it deep into the show, I’ll recap every episode until he’s eliminated. New episodes air at 9/8 CT Thursdays on Fox.
For one weekend last month, it was the safest place on the planet — or at least the most exciting. At the county fairgrounds in Anne Arundel County, Md., Scouts and leaders met representatives from more than 40 different county, state and federal law enforcement and public-safety agencies.
When it comes to camp cuisine, there’s no better food critic than a Boy Scout. Who better to judge the merit of food prepared outdoors than the inventors of the Cooking merit badge? The fine folks at the Fox show MasterChef Junior sure think so.
Crack the code left behind in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Experiment on an egg to discover the effects of pollution on our oceans. Gauge astronaut readiness with simple (and fun) endurance and agility tests. Those are just three of the hands-on meeting activity ideas available to Scout leaders at the all-new Nat Geo Kids Explorers Club.
Scouting Heritage merit badge requirement 4B asks Scouts to write or visit the National Scouting Museum in Texas. As the museum prepares to relocate to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, the procedure for completing this requirement has changed. Effective April 1, 2017, Scouts seeking information for this requirement should send correspondence to Philmont at…
The internet has fallen in love with April, a pregnant 15-year-old giraffe living at the Animal Adventure Park near Binghamton, N.Y. A giraffe pregnancy lasts 15 months, and April has been pregnant for 15 months. So it’s time. Time for everyone to spend hours staring at the live video feed of April’s pen, waiting for…
Once you and your Scouts have planned a year of Scouting fun, it’s time for the less-fun part. It’s time to figure out how to pay for it all. Creating a budget for your pack, troop, team, post, ship or crew is an essential part of every well-managed, well-financed unit.
Scout volunteers, we can’t thank you enough for your devotion to the Scouting movement. But that doesn’t mean we won’t try. In honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month, which is April, we want you to send in photos, videos and stories about a volunteer who made a difference in your life or the life of a…
Fifty years, to the day, after an Eagle Scout was the first human to set foot on the moon, the Boy Scouts of America will create a permanent high-adventure base there. Tranquility High Adventure Base — the fifth jewel in BSA’s high-adventure crown — will open July 20, 2019.
Be prepared to spend less time filling out forms and more time having fun. The Boy Scouts of America has eliminated its Tour and Activity Plan, shifting the focus away from paperwork and toward creating a safe space for Scouts to enjoy the program as designed.
The Fox reality show Kicking & Screaming pairs hardcore survivalists with people who have, let’s say, far less experience in the outdoors. Now that Eagle Scout and Washington Scout leader Terry Fossum is in the Top 6, I’ll recap every episode until he’s eliminated or the finale airs — whichever comes first.
It’s midnight, you’re in pajamas and you’re sitting on the couch scrolling Facebook on your tablet. Sounds like the perfect time to get trained. With the launch of Scouting U’s eLearning content for Boy Scout leaders, Scouters now can get trained on their own schedule — anywhere, any time.
Wash, sanitize, rinse. With the three-step dishwashing system, you can finish camp dishes in no time. That means you’re back to having fun faster. Here’s how to wash dishes at a campsite, courtesy of the BSA Fieldbook (pages 91-92) and the 13th edition of the Boy Scout Handbook (page 308).
In the nautical world, a boatswain (pronounced “bosun”) is the officer in charge of the ship, equipment and crew. In the Sea Scouts world, the National Boatswain is the youth leader in the charge of the whole Sea Scouting program.
We’re mere months away from the summer, aka the Greatest Scouting Season. And while it’s too early to pack your bags and load the trailer, the time is right for one essential step in summer Scouting preparation. It’s time to get your physical.
Estrella-Wells (middle) shared plenty of laughs with her fellow Buffaloes. After her first day of Wood Badge, Renee Estrella-Wells was tired and more than a little overwhelmed. “It felt like not just one fire hose of information drowning you, but three,” she said.
Tobias Ellwood, the politician gaining praise for his heroism after a fatal stabbing outside the U.K. Parliament in London, is an Eagle Scout. Ellwood, born in New York City to British parents, was a member of the Boy Scouts of America’s Transatlantic Council, which serves American Scouts living overseas.
Emergencies happen when and where you least expect them. Like on March 22 in the high school cafeteria of Central High School in La Crosse, Wis. Freshman Ian Brown was enjoying lunch when his classmate began to choke. Other students thought Will Olson was being funny, but Ian spotted a change in the color of…
The description of Canyon Barry the basketball player looks exactly like the description of Canyon Barry the Eagle Scout. “He’s a quiet contributor, good teammate, happy for others’ success and he has a good heart,” said Brian Burnett, Canyon’s former Scoutmaster.
Evan Roe was a Life Scout when Madam Secretary tapped him to join the family. Producers of the CBS drama wanted to cast Evan as Jason McCord, son of the title character played by Téa Leoni. Slight problem, though. The show films in New York, so accepting the job would require Evan to leave San…
Scouts and Scouters, meet your repeat champion: the First Aid merit badge. After losing its top spot to the Cooking merit badge in 2014, First Aid retook the crown in 2015 and defended its title in 2016. That means more Scouts earned the First Aid merit badge in 2016 than any other badge.
It happened a few minutes after 7 p.m. on March 14. Inside Room 126 of the Peachtree City (Ga.) United Methodist Church, Preston A. passed his board of review and became an Eagle Scout. The moment wasn’t just monumental for Preston and his family.
The Scouts of Troop 251 — now full-grown adults with Scouts of their own — wanted to host a reunion of their 1981 Sea Base crew. They read the Bryan on Scouting post about the Philmont crew from Tennessee that re-created a photo taken 34 years earlier, and they wanted to do the same.
Guest post by Sgt. David N. Beckstrom, 5 th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Reprinted with permission JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – The smell of sawdust wafts through the air. Power tools whine. It’s mid-February, and inside the Scout Hut on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the boys and parents of Pack 462 are preparing for the annual Pinewood…
As a Scout, my favorite merit badges were earned as a byproduct of Scouting fun. We’d go camping or visit the Texas Capitol or cook a gourmet dinner and — boom! — merit badge done. But sometimes you have to be more deliberate about merit badge instruction.
Eagles and Tigers and Bearcats? Oh my! A look at the nicknames of all 68 teams in the 2017 NCAA Tournament reveals some great ideas for patrol names. Here, the 10 best patrol nicknames taken from this year’s March Madness field.
When top-seeded Villanova takes the court in the 2017 NCAA Tournament, they’ll have more than Nova Nation behind them. They’ll have Scouting Nation, too. That’s because Josh Hart, the leader (and leading scorer) for Villanova, is an Eagle Scout. Even if you don’t bleed navy and white, there’s plenty of reason to cheer for the…
Royal Robbins, the climbing legend, clothing company founder, former Scout and lifelong friend of Scouting, died March 14 after a long illness. He was 82. Robbins, in a 2009 speech to a group of Scout volunteers and professionals, said Scouting saved his life and introduced him to rock climbing.
The BSA’s 2017 Boy Scout Requirements book, detailing major and minor changes to Boy Scout ranks and merit badges, is now available. Inside you’ll find: Modifications to the Second Class and First Class ranks The new Exploration merit badge Major changes to four merit badges Minor changes to 32 merit badges The changes are the…
FOX’s new show, “ Kicking & Screaming ,” airing tonight at 8/9 Central, pairs survival experts with Average Joe-types to see how they fare when facing wild animals, hunger and extreme weather in the jungles of Fiji. Except competitor Terry Fossum — a businessman, author and public speaker — isn’t your typical Average Joe.
Four meetings with cabinet secretaries yielded four strong responses to Scouting and the ways in which it prepares young people for life. It’s safe to say that, thanks to the 10 terrific Report to the Nation delegates who represent 2.3 million outstanding youth participants nationwide, the BSA’s approval rating is high.
When the Report to the Nation delegates described their Washington visit to the Secretary of the Senate, she was floored. “That’s not a routine week in Washington by any stretch of the imagination,” said Julie Adams, whose office handles the Senate’s day-to-day operations.
As a Boy Scout, BSA Chief Scout Executive Mike Surbaugh spent time in national parks to complete service projects. He was the owner of a well-worn National Parks Passport book and was proud of all the stamps he collected. The story of a young person who developed a lifelong appreciation of national parks through Scouting…
On Tuesday, one Cub Scout, one Explorer, one Sea Scout, two Venturers and five Boy Scouts visited the White House to present the Boy Scouts of America’s Report to the Nation to President Donald Trump. The report summarizes the BSA’s many accomplishments from the previous year, and presenting it to the president is a tradition…
By the time they made it through metal detectors, past gates that required both an ID card and a security code, up a manned elevator, and through a heavy door that required a second secret code, the Report to the Nation delegates had to be feeling pretty special.
Ron K., an Eagle Scout from North Carolina, opened the lunch by saying grace. “Please let us have fun in Washington,” he said, “but do our business, too.” On Monday, in a special dining room deep inside the Pentagon, the Report to the Nation delegates had lunch with Gen.
The Eagle Scout badge is extremely rare, but the U.S. Army has a badge that’s even rarer. It’s the badge worn by members of the Honor Guard who keep 24-hour watch over the Tomb of Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
Dr. Thomas Starzl, an Eagle Scout who performed the first-ever liver transplant in 1963 and pioneered transplant surgery and anti-rejection drugs, died on March 4 at age 90. Dr. Starzl’s research advanced organ transplantation from a risky and rare procedure to a surgery accessible to patients in need.
With 190 registered members, Troop 755 of Northville, Mich. — just outside of Detroit — is almost eight times the size of an average 25-member troop. In fact, it could be the biggest troop east of the Mississippi. With such an impressive number of boys, what better source for learning how the troop recruits and retains members…
There was a moment when Dr. David Hunt worried he was losing his audience’s attention as he discussed his job studying bones at the Smithsonian Natural History museum. He had shown the Scouts and Venturers a femur fractured by a 50-caliber bullet in the Civil War.
Also at Goddard, the delegates participated in some get-to-know-you games — a surefire way to strengthen a team. At NASA, the future is all about looking deeper into the past. On the first day of the BSA’s Report to the Nation trip, the delegates got a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where astronomers…
I told you all about this year’s tremendous delegates in my 2016 Report to the Nation preview . But seeing, as they say, is believing. So now’s your chance to meet these 10 terrific young people. On Saturday at Goddard Space Flight Center, I chatted with all 10 delegates to learn more about their stories and…
Informing key leaders in our nation’s capital about all the good things Scouts did last year isn’t just a smart idea. It’s congressionally mandated. When Woodrow Wilson signed the Boy Scouts of America’s charter on June 15, 1916, he made it official that “on or before the first day of April of each year the…
Eagle Scouts are getting older, and that’s not a bad thing. In 1949, the average age of Eagle Scouts was 14.6 years. In 2016, that number was 17.35 years old . (That’s 17 years, 127.75 days.) I see two explanations. First, young men are staying in Scouting longer, meaning they’re enjoying the program and not feeling…
Bennett earned Scouting’s highest honor in 2015 as a member of Troop 216 of the Fort Worth-based Longhorn Council. The great power of the Eagle Scout badge comes with great responsibility. Once you first wear it, you never really take it off.
Before Josh Hart wore the navy and white uniform of Villanova, he wore the khaki and green uniform of Scouting. Finding time to be a student, a Scout and an athlete wasn’t easy. Josh even dropped out of Scouting for a couple of years, but he returned to finish what he started — and to fulfill…
