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Strategy is a fun filled challenge weekend for Scouts, Explorers, Guides and Rangers (10-18) 30 bases over spread over 3000 acres, have you got a winning Strategy?
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Surviving in the Wild with Megan Hine: learning about knife safety. Scouts prepares more than 460,000 girls and boys across the UK with #SkillsForLife.
Witness history in the making as we cover the groundbreaking transformation of the Boy Scouts to Scouting America in our latest news update. Explore the moti...
- William Boyce Meets The Unknown Scout
- First Eagle Medal Awarded
- First National Jamboree
- Philturn Rocky Mountain Scout Camp Opens
- Exploring Begins
- The First Pinewood Derby
- An Eagle on The Moon
- Scouting For Food Goes National
- Scouting’s 100th Anniversary
- The Summit Bechtel Reserve Opens
As legend has it, American businessman William Boyce was walking the streets of London when he lost his way. A boy stepped up and guided him to his destination. Boyce offered him a tip, but the boy explained he was a Scout and that Scouts do not accept payment for doing Good Turns. Intrigued, Boyce went to the local Scouting office to learn more. H...
The 1911 Handbook for Boysexplained, “Any first-class Scout qualifying for twenty-one merit badges will be entitled to wear the highest Scout merit badge. This is an eagle’s head in silver, and represents the all-round perfect Scout.” A year later, Arthur Rose Eldred of Troop 1 in Rockville Center, N.Y., became the first official Eagle Scout. The m...
More than 27,000 Scouts answered the call of President Franklin Roosevelt to join him in July 1937 in Washington, D.C., for the National Scout Jamboree. (The Jamboree was originally scheduled for 1935 to celebrate Scouting’s first 25 years, but the event was postponed because of a polio epidemic.) A vast encampment of tents surrounded the Washingto...
Waite Phillips was never a Scout. Even so, when the oilman decided in 1938 to donate nearly 36,000 acres of his northern New Mexico ranch to the organization he believed was best suited to use the land to provide growth experiences for young people, he chose the Boy Scouts of America. His generous gifts included the Villa Philmonte, the Phillips fa...
The early decades of the BSA saw the introduction of programs designed to keep older Scouts interested and involved. Sea Scouting, Senior Scouts, Rovers, Air Scouts and Explorers each had a specific focus beyond what many troops could provide. In 1949, the BSA consolidated most of these into a new program called Exploring. (Sea Scouting continued t...
Imagine the excitement of Cub Scouts racing the first-ever Pinewood Derby cars. Organized by Donald Murphy, Cubmaster of Pack 280C in Manhattan Beach, Calif., the derby idea emerged from Murphy’s passion for carving model cars and interest in pairing each Cub Scout with an adult to build, decorate and race a car of their own. Using Murphy’s origina...
“The Eagle has landed!” Those were Neil Armstrong’s words as the first manned spacecraft touched down on the moon. He was referring to the name of the Apollo 11 lunar lander, but he could just as well have meant himself. Cmdr. Armstrong, who was about to become the first man to walk on the moon, was an Eagle Scout. Of the 312 pilots and scientists ...
Do a Good Turn Daily. This Scouting motto encourages every Scout to be of service to others. Harnessing the power of millions of Scouts has made national Good Turns terrific forces for achieving great things. Scouting for Food is shining proof of what is possible when young people work together. Scouts distribute collection bags to homes throughout...
With the theme Celebrating the Adventure, Continuing the Journey, the BSA’s centennial celebration featured a National Jamboree, a first-class stamp issued by the United States Postal Service and a huge parade in the nation’s capital. Newly designed uniforms and centennial versions of embroidered patches gave Scouting an updated look. Vintage merit...
The BSA’s newest national property represents an investment in the present and an exciting vision of good things to come. The 10,000 rugged acres of West Virginia are loaded with opportunities for climbing and rappelling, skateboarding, riding BMX bikes, screaming down zip lines and much more. With a spectrum of leadership courses, serving as host ...
The Evolution of Scouting 1947: World Organization of the Scout Movement was granted General Consultative Status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNESCO). 1960-1980: Many countries gained their independence, resulting in National Scout Organizations joining or rejoining as members of World Organization of the Scout Movement.
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Boy Scouts, organization, originally for boys from 11 to 14 or 15 years of age, that aimed to develop in them good citizenship, chivalrous behavior, and skill in outdoor activities. The Boy Scout movement was founded in Great Britain in 1908 by Lieutenant General Robert S.S. (later Lord) Baden-Powell.
