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Month: March 2020

Show and Tell

Scouting Show & Tell: Scouting remotely

March 17, 2020 8

With the concerns of COVID-19 spreading, units are cancelling campouts and in-person meetings, but that doesn’t mean Scouting stops.

Advancement

How to conduct a board of review through videoconferencing

March 16, 2020 17

Even before the coronavirus prompted concern about face-to-face meetings, Scouts have been able to conduct boards of review by video.

Roger Tate wearing tarp
Camping

What’s your 11th Essential? Seasoned Scout leader has a suggestion to share

March 13, 2020 16

If you only have room in your backpack for 10 items, make it the Ten Essentials. But let’s say you have a little extra space. What’s your 11th Essential?

Aven Alexander shows the Scout sign
Sea Scouting

Aven Alexander to lead Sea Scouts as 2020–2021 National Sea Scout Boatswain

March 12, 2020 1

Aven Alexander, a high school junior from Texas who has earned the Quartermaster Award, will serve as the 2020-2021 National Sea Scout Boatswain.

Troops hold flags on Mount Kilimanjaro
Scouts BSA

Two Scouts BSA troops — one for boys, one for girls — summit Mount Kilimanjaro

March 11, 2020 1

A pair of Scouts BSA troops from Connecticut — boys Troop 175 and girls Troop 1175 — successfully summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.

Group photo of dolphinfish program at Sea Base
Sea Base

At Florida Sea Base, Scouts are helping ocean wildlife, one dolphinfish at a time

March 10, 2020 0

Scouts at the Florida Sea Base are being recognized by a national nonprofit for their best-in-class efforts to tag dolphinfish, also known as mahi-mahi.

App Feed - Famous Scouts

This scene in the CBS series confirms that MacGyver is a Scouting volunteer, like you

March 9, 2020 29

A recent episode of the CBS action series MacGyver confirms what we’ve long hoped: the problem-solving, day-saving hero is a Scouting volunteer.

Report to the Nation

Read what our nation’s leaders said about Scouting

March 6, 2020 2

As soon as she returned to the hotel, Star Scout Isabella Tunney grabbed a pen and paper. Her fellow Report to the Nation delegates huddled around her, recounting what happened in the Oval Office. Since

Alumni

On the 100th year since the 19th Amendment, let’s look how Scouts stood with suffragists

March 5, 2020 2

Report to the Nation delegates toured the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument in Washington, D.C.

Report to the Nation

We cannot tell a lie — George Washington’s rules similar to the Scout Law

March 4, 2020 2

Taking a look at George Washington’s childhood rules, some sound a lot like Scouting tenets.

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