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Courts of honor, boards of review and service projects that took months of planning. Scouters wrote about the journey to Eagle from every angle, from the first rank advancement to the speech at the ceremony.
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Eagles' Call, the magazine for all Eagle Scouts - and future Eagles! - half-price with code EGCMA14 http://t.co/rqPy2mKwvg : via Twitter http://ift.tt/1714avm
Justin, a youth and lifetime member of the National Eagle Scout Association, asks whether he can wear the silver-bordered NESA Life Member square knot.
Eagle Scout Scott Berger is associate director of the "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley," where he helps put out a 30-minute news program every weekday.
RT @boyscouts: July 3 deadline to be included in "Eagle Scout Yearbook, Class of 2013" is approaching: http://t.co/XhHPaUJzm3 : via Twitter http://ift.tt/1714avm
The Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook (No. 512-927) is regularly refreshed to make it easier to use and understand.
16-year-old Eagle Scout Climbs Two Giant Mountains Back To Back http://t.co/lKuxjZhiDl : via Twitter http://ift.tt/1714avm
Eagle Scout Matt Moniz keeps raising the stakes. On May 25, the 16-year-old became the youngest person to summit the 27,766-foot Makalu, the world's fifth-tallest mountain. A week earlier he summited the 26,905-foot Cho Oyu, Earth's sixth-highest mountain. Of course there's one mountain taller than these and any other: Everest, elevation 29,029 feet.
Eagle Scouts Begin Massive Bike Trek Across The Country This Weekend http://t.co/mDK75nRJ0k : via Twitter http://ift.tt/1714avm
Eagle Scouts Begin Massive Bike Trek Across The Country This Weekend Earlier this year, we told you about the group of Eagle Scouts from Troop 165 in Fredericksburg, Va., who will be biking across the country this summer. Well, after years of training and planning, the time is finally here: The group begins their epic…
On Sunday, May 4th, there was a court of honor held for Melrose Boy Scout Troop 68′s newest Eagle Scout. Alex is the 22nd Scout to attain this honor since I began serving as an adult leader of troop in 1980.As far as I know, there was only one Eagle Scout in Melrose before 1980…
You're going to want to meet Cody, Donald and Ryan. These three Eagle Scouts won three of the National Eagle Scout Association ‘s most prestigious scholarships in 2014 and have been spotlighted in a series of videos first shown at the BSA's National Annual Meeting in May.
Eagle Scout's act of kindness keeps on giving. http://t.co/6nxVaCk1Zb : via Twitter http://ift.tt/1714avm
Click image to view e-Letter The June 1 edition of the Finance Impact Department's e-Letter has been published and is now available online. This edition provides information for recording camp inventories; reiterates the requirements for Friends of Scouting recognition, to be presented at the 2014 Top Hands Conference; gives information regarding local councils' audited financial…
Across our country, hundreds of ceremonies are held each year to honor those young men who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout. It's a significant achievement and a bold statement of their commitment to the values of Scouting. It also signals our next generation of nation's leaders.
Robert M. Gates, the former defense secretary, will prioritize transparency, marketing, retention and recruitment, and continued program innovation during his two-year term as the 35th president of the Boy Scouts of America. In his first speech to Scouters and Scouts since the 2010 jamboree, the Distinguished Eagle Scout and past president of the National Eagle…
The Boy Scouts of America today elected Robert M. Gates, Eagle Scout, former defense secretary and former CIA director as its national president. He officially begins his two-year term as the BSA's 35th president today. The BSA's volunteer and professional delegates attending this week's National Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tenn., voted to confirm Gates as…
Avid readers of this blog have been hearing about changes to Cooking merit badge since October 2012 . But new Scouters or new blog readers might not know about the exciting, important changes to this now-Eagle-required merit badge. The basic facts are these: Cooking merit badge became required to earn the Eagle Scout Award on Jan.
Trevor, a Life Scout, recently got his Eagle Scout Project Proposal OK'd by his unit leader, unit committee, the project beneficiary and his council or district. With that complete, next up in the process is filling out a Final Plan, which the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook says is a tool for the Scout's use…
If you've never heard of Imagine Dragons, ask a couple of your Scouts to get you up to speed. Or check out the list of winners from last night's Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. The rock band, fronted by Eagle Scout lead singer Dan Reynolds, won five awards last night, including Top Rock Artist…
Talk about great odds. Eagle Scout Connor O'Leary and his dad, Dave, had a one in three shot at winning $1 million in last night's season finale of The Amazing Race . Appropriate to any discussion about odds, the 35,000-mile race around the world ended in Las Vegas.
Has it really been five months since I last posted a video to the Melrose Scouting Productions Podcast? I guess so. Time to get busy with that once again. After all, I do have a few more videos to share with you.
He's already earned Scouting's highest honor, so racing donkeys in Italy, dancing in Malaysia and becoming a barber in Seville, Spain - all with a million bucks on the line - seems like a cake walk for Connor O'Leary. Connor is the younger half of the "David & Connor" father-son team competing for $1 million on the Emmy-winning…
Talk about setting the bar high. Mary Agnes Lewis, 86, was honored by the Baltimore Area Council earlier this month as its first Eagle Scout Mom of the Year. Her accomplishment? Helping all seven of her sons achieve the Eagle Scout Award.
Not content at the 21 merit badges required for Eagle, some Scouts go beyond and earn additional merit badges, making them eligible to receive Eagle Scout palms. An Eagle Scout who earns five merit badges beyond the minimum amount (and meets other requirements ) will receive a Bronze Palm.
Now you don't have to be an Eagle Scout to read about the cool things Eagle Scouts are doing. For the first time ever, Eagles ‘ Call , the quarterly magazine from the National Eagle Scout Association, is available to anyone, not just those who have earned Scouting's highest honor.
Eagle Scout's the highest rank in Scouting, but it's not the end of the road. An Eagle Scout who earns five merit badges beyond the minimum amount (and meets other requirements ) will receive a Bronze Palm. He'll get a Gold Palm for 10 extra merit badges and a Silver Palm for 15.
This blog and the pages of Eagles' Call magazine are filled with stories of Eagle Scouts who have gone on to do great things. And that's just the ones we know about. Another 500,000 Eagle Scouts have dropped off of Scouting's radar since earning Scouting's highest rank at some point in the award's 102-year history.
It sounds like the trailer for a summer blockbuster: In a world saturated by television, smartphones and video games, one group of Scouts dares to step outside and show the world they still value the outdoors, exercise and self-discipline. But this is better than a Hollywood movie.
Steve sent in this question about Eagle palms : In terms of earning Palms. Do MB's earned before getting Eagle count towards Palms? The wording on the BSA site is unclear to me. My oldest will be 15 in July and has to be in his PL position for about 4 months to be able to…
In a few weeks, my two boys will be having their Eagle Court of Honor. As I've been scanning the web looking through lots of ideas for how to run one, I came across this letter from Mike Rowe that I read for the first time.
Here's some news that rocks. Long before he helped Imagine Dragons win a Grammy Award, an American Music Award and a Teen Choice Award, lead singer Dan Reynolds earned the Eagle Scout Award. Yes, the vocalist for the band that MTV in 2013 called "the year's biggest breakout band" got his start in Scouting.
Matt Moniz and his dad, Mike, needed just six weeks and a day to climb to the highest point in every U.S. state. That's faster than anyone in history. I'm talking 50 summits - from Alaska's 20,322-foot Denali to Florida's 345-foot Britton Hill - in just 43 days.
Captain America and Eagle Scouts: Both wear uniforms, and of course they're both patriotic and brave. But recently I learned the shield-toting Avenger has even more in common with young men who earn Scouting's highest award than you might think.
On July 31, 2011, Eagle Scout Connor Stotts singlehandedly saved the lives of three swimmers caught in a dangerous riptide near Oceanside Beach, Calif. This bravery earned Connor the BSA's Honor Medal With Crossed Palms , as well as the Carnegie Medal (which came with a $5,000 reward).
Click image to view e-Letter The March 15 edition of the Finance Impact Department's e-Letter has been published and is now available online. This issue highlights the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Fundamentals of Fundraising and Fiscal Management I courses offered May 18-20 in Nashville, Tennessee, prior to the National Annual Meeting.
On the bottom of the world right now, Eagle Scout Alex Houston is having an experience that tops all others. I already introduced you to Alex and told you about his time in Ushuaia, Argentina , as he prepared for the journey by boat to Antarctica.
Well, he made it. After enduring the 30-hour, 6,680-mile, three-flight trip from Lawrence, Kan., to Ushuaia, Argentina, Eagle Scout Alex Houston already has plenty of stories to tell. I introduced you to Alex last week. He's the Eagle Scout selected to join an expedition called 2041 that will explore the Antarctic Peninsula to research its…
Alex, you're not in Kansas anymore. Alex Houston, an Eagle Scout from Lawrence, Kan., is leaving today on an international expedition to Antarctica. He was selected from among several Eagle Scout applicants to represent the BSA on this once-in-a-lifetime trip.
Yearbooks are priceless windows into the past, and the Eagle Scout Yearbook, Class of 2013 will be no exception. To make it happen, though, the National Eagle Scout Association needs your help to fill the yearbook's pages with the stories of the 56,841 young men who earned Eagle last year.
They say once you're an Eagle Scout, you're one for life. For Eagle Scout Dennis Pitta, the same may be true about being a Baltimore Raven. The Super Bowl-winning tight end just signed a five-year deal worth $32 million, according to the Baltimore Sun .
As teenagers, they received red, white and blue Eagle Scout medals. This morning, clad in the red, white and blue of Team USA, Steven Holcomb and Chris Fogt got bronze Olympic ones. The Eagle Scouts were two of the four members of the USA-1 "Night Train 2″ team, which also included Curt Tomasevicz and Steve…
A Scout is brave, but what Lawrence D. Sellers did on Jan. 29, 2013, was something beyond bravery. The Chicago Area Council Eagle Scout was shot in the leg while shielding a friend from gunfire during the Harsh Park attack that killed Hadiya Pendleton .
In 2010, Eagle Scout Steven Holcomb won Team USA's first medal in four-man bobsled in 62 years, driving the United States to gold. Yesterday, he ended another 62-year American medal drought, this time in two-man bobsled. He and teammate Steve Langton won bronze in the event at the Sochi Games.
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. At the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receiveth."
Team USA's bobsledders must be born with a superhuman drive to reach their goals. How else can you explain the fact that 50 percent of USA-1, the four-man Olympic bobsled team with strong medal hopes in Sochi, are Eagle Scouts?
On Wednesday I shared 30 creative and mouthwatering Scout-themed cakes I found by searching around online. At the end of the post, I asked you to share your own Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Eagle Scout and Venturing cakes. Apparently my request did not go unnoticed.
Anyone who attended an Eagle Scout court of honor last year knows 2013 was a great year for Eagle Scouts. The same is true when you step back to look at the nationwide picture of young men who became Eagle Scouts in 2013.
Any time is a good time for cake. Blue and gold banquets, courts of honor and Scout birthday parties are obvious times to enjoy a Scouting-themed cake. But I propose celebrating with iced deliciousness on less-obvious occasions such as "First Troop Meeting of the Month" or "Our Cub Scouts Are Hungry" or "Second Troop Meeting…
This is the season for recognition dinners, fundraisers, leadership breakfasts, and other events designed to bring your council closer to your Scouts, your volunteers, and your community. No doubt these events are also among your most important revenue generators for council operations.
The next time a Scout in your troop says the road to Eagle is too hard, tell him the story of Nathaniel Gray. Nathaniel, an 18-year-old from the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood, was born addicted to crack cocaine. He was raised by his aunt and couldn't walk or eat solid food until he was almost…
