Topics

Pack meetings, den adventures, pinewood derbies and blue and gold banquets.

Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers and the Network.

Courts of honor, boards of review and service projects that took months of planning.

From Basketry to Robotics, merit badges are where Scouts meet the wider world.

Tens of thousands of Scouts camping together for ten days.

Philmont treks, Northern Tier canoe routes, Sea Base sailing and The Summit.

Campouts, cooking, backpacking and Leave No Trace.

One hundred days of doing something for Scouting, and writing about each one.

In 2010 the Boy Scouts of America turned 100, and volunteers celebrated all year.

Scouting's national honor society of cheerful service.

Lashings, spars and the knots that hold everything together.

What it takes to lead a troop week after week.

Council shoulder strips, event patches, jacket patches and the trading blankets that showed them off.

Rank requirements, Scoutmaster conferences and boards of review.

Show-and-sell tables, take-order sheets and the Scouts who sold the most.

Small groups of Scouts, led by Scouts.

The adults who keep a unit running: chairs, treasurers, advancement coordinators and chartered organization representatives.

Unit commissioners, roundtables and district service.

Ticket items, critters, beads and the Gilwell song.

Baden-Powell, vintage handbooks, old patches and the stories of long-ago camps.

NYLT, IOLS, position-specific courses and the trainers who ran them.

Scouts from more than 150 countries camping together every four years.

Phones came along on campouts.

Every Scout's first book.

GPS units, hidden caches and travel bugs.