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Month: April 2016

Cub Scouting

As a founding member of Water Safety USA, BSA commits to prevent drownings

April 20, 2016 7

The Boy Scouts of America is one of 13 founding members of Water Safety USA, a new roundtable of organizations committed to preventing drownings.

Training

What was your favorite Wood Badge ticket item?

April 19, 2016 90

Wood Badge ticket items cover a range of Scouting efforts. What is your favorite act of service to Scouting? Share it here.

National Jamboree

They heard you: Why the 2017 Jamboree will be even better than the last one

April 18, 2016 36

We asked two volunteers for the 2017 Jamboree to review a few of the problematic areas for 2013 — and share how they’ve been addressed.

Cub Scouting

Pack wins supermarket’s $5,000 Monopoly prize, donates it all

April 15, 2016 14

Pack 263 of Windham, N.H., won a big prize in the local supermarket’s Monopoly game. What they did with the winnings is unbelievably inspiring.

Cub Scouting

Will Lions be part of the pack? (And answers to your other Lion questions)

April 15, 2016 15

Will Lions be part of the Cub Scout pack? By adding another year to the program, is the BSA concerned about “burnout”? And why was the Lions name chosen?

Camping

Scouts demonstrate foil-pack cooking on ‘Fox & Friends’

April 14, 2016 7

Three Boy Scouts and a Cub Scout demonstrated foil-pack cooking techniques from the Boy Scout Handbook in a segment on Fox & Friends this morning.

Cub Scouting

From Akela to the pack, Cub Scouting has roots in ‘The Jungle Book’

April 14, 2016 5

Today’s Cub Scouts till use terms like Akela, pack and den that can be traced to Rudyard Kipling’s original set of stories called “The Jungle Book.”

Cub Scouting

In gang-infested neighborhood in California, Scouting offers a way out

April 13, 2016 3

In Owen’s neighborhood in Los Angeles, violence is so endemic that his street shares its name with a local gang. Thankfully, Owen is a Webelos Scout.

Scouts Then and Now

Scouts Then and Now, Chapter 3: 49 inspiring sets of photos

April 8, 2016 0

In this chapter of Scouts Then and Now, we share 49 sets of photos that show the same young person in two stages of their Scouting lives.

Service

Central Region Scouts collect 40,000 pairs of shoes for people of Honduras

April 8, 2016 0

Last year, councils in the BSA’s Central Region partnered with Soles4Souls, a not-for-profit organization trying to fighting poverty by distributing shoes.

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