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Month: April 2013

Philmont Scout Ranch

Visual Storytelling Workshops back in action this summer

April 30, 2013 0

Who doesn’t love a good sequel? After last summer’s successful premiere of the BSA’s Visual Storytelling Workshops in Atlanta and at Philmont, the return engagement is almost upon us. Two more workshops are scheduled for 2013,

Ask the Expert

Ask the Expert: Can merit badge progress begin before a Scout gets his blue card?

April 30, 2013 128

If a Scout camps several nights with his troop before getting a signed blue card from his Scoutmaster, do those nights count toward his earning Camping merit badge? That’s what a Scouter, who I’ll call

National Jamboree

Buy a Samsung device on AT&T, get a free jamboree-edition solar charging kit

April 30, 2013 9

Updated | July 10, 2013 There’s just one problem with all that Tweeting, Facebooking, and Instagramming Scouts and Scouters will do at this summer’s national jamboree. All those Web-connected devices can only go as far

National Jamboree

Download version 1.0 of the Jamboree app on Android and Apple

April 24, 2013 60

Updated, April 30: Apple iOS version now available They say this summer’s National Jamboree will be the most-connected ever. Well, this is a great start. Version 1.0 of the Jamboree Summit App is available on Apple

Where Am I?

March-April ‘Where Am I?’ contest location—and winner!—revealed

April 23, 2013 0

It’s a peculiar vision to see snow-capped mountains and dusty, hot sand all in the same line of sight. But these two geographic elements intertwine at the secret destination in the March-April “Where Am I?”

BSA Racing

No-quit attitude pays off in BSA Racing’s best finish ever

April 22, 2013 4

Doing Your Best, even in adverse circumstances, is part of Scouting’s core. So we shouldn’t be too surprised that Justin Wilson, driver of the No. 19 Boy Scouts of America IndyCar, finished third in Sunday’s Toyota Grand Prix

Merit Badges

The most- and least-popular merit badges of 2012, and what that info tells us

April 22, 2013 141

Which merit badges had Scouts rushing to counselors and Moms and Dads rushing to the sewing machine last year? Here’s your answer. In January 2012, I presented a list of 2011’s most- and least-popular merit

Scouting in the News

An update on the Scouts and Scouters in West, Texas

April 19, 2013 3

A bit of good news from West, Texas, today. Longhorn Council Scout Executive John Coyle says he’s learned the members of Pack 494 and Troop 494 in West are all safe and accounted for after

Cub Scouting

BSA membership policy resolution released, will be voted on in May

April 19, 2013 1,457

The Boy Scouts of America’s Executive Committee today released its membership policy resolution, which proposes removing the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone and maintaining the current membership policy for

Scouting in the News

Longhorn Council stands ready to help the people of West, Texas

April 18, 2013 5

Update, 3:48 p.m. April 19: Read the latest here. I was sickened to read about last night’s deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, just 90 minutes south of the BSA’s

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