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Ticket items, critters, beads and the Gilwell song. Wood Badge left a mark on almost every Scouter who took it, and course participants and staff wrote about it often.
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Registration is now live for a pair of 2018 national Wood Badge Pilot Courses that precede a 2019 update to the BSA’s premier leadership training program for adults. The update, known as the Wood Badge Centennial Update, will be released in 2019 for use in 2020 and beyond.
It’s time for Owls to unite as a parliament, Antelopes to join the herd and Bears to form a sloth. (Yes, I looked it up, and that’s what a group of bears is called. I couldn’t believe it either.) It’s time to remember, reconnect and rekindle.
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.
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.
Eat healthier, get more exercise and read more. We hear about the same old resolutions New Year after New Year. So I asked Scouting magazine readers for their BSA-focused resolutions for the new year. Here are 10 of my favorites.
