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Month: February 2017

Scouting Tips

Boy Scout retention: Four things you can do so they’ll stick around

February 7, 2017 38

Boost retention by helping Boy Scouts get the most out of this life-changing organization with a program that keeps them coming back week after week.

Scouting 101

All about ILST: the Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops

February 7, 2017 29

Upon completion of the Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops (ILST), the Scout is qualified to wear the “Trained” emblem on his uniform.

Merit Badges

3 questions to ask yourself before becoming a merit badge counselor

February 6, 2017 46

Planning to teach them Traffic Safety? School them in Scholarship? Before you serve as a merit badge counselor, ask yourself these three questions.

Eagle Scout

Does the number of Eagle Scouts in a team’s home city predict the winner of the Super Bowl?

February 4, 2017 13

Is there a correlation between the number of Eagle Scouts in a team’s home city and that team’s odds of winning the Super Bowl?

Scouting Tips

The stars of Pinewood Derby comedy ‘Down and Derby’: Where are they now?

February 3, 2017 6

Let’s see what the stars of the 2005 Pinewood Derby comedy “Down and Derby” are up to now — more than a decade after the film’s debut.

Fundraising

Read this list of do’s and don’ts before your next unit fundraiser

February 2, 2017 36

Some units like to supplement council money-earning projects with their own fundraisers. Just follow this list of fundraising do’s and don’ts.

Famous People

What Jimmy Stewart said about the Scout Oath

February 2, 2017 30

“I happen to believe that the man who was a Scout is a better man for it,” Jimmy Stewart told a crowd in 1980 in Los Angeles.

Cub Scouting

From Idaho to Indiana, this is how Pinewood Derby car kits get made

February 1, 2017 5

These wood blocks begin their journey as ponderosa pine logs at a sustainable lumber mill in Idaho. Then those blocks are transported to South Bend, Ind.

Scouting Tips

Scout Planning Worksheet is a new tool to help Scouts perfect planning skills

February 1, 2017 41

The BSA has released the Scout Planning Worksheet, a new tool that Scouts can use to plan patrol or troop activities.

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Aaron Derr is the senior editor of Aaron on Scouting and Scout Life magazine, and also a former Cubmaster and Scouts BSA volunteer.


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