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Month: December 2021

App Feed - Eagle Scouts

‘I feel truly honored’: Eagle Scout receives grandfather’s 86-year-old Eagle medal

December 17, 2021 3

After Chandler successfully completed his Eagle Scout board of review, his dad approached him holding a small blue box.

App Feed - Outdoors

Our five favorite things about the official Philmont podcast

December 16, 2021 0

Philmont stories are Scouting stories. In an effort to tell those stories in a new and exciting way, Philmont has launched its first official podcast.

App Feed - Merit Badges

Eagle Scout invents card game for kids, using skills from these five merit badges

December 15, 2021 1

While working on the Game Design merit badge, this Eagle Scout invented the “ferociously fun” card game Primal Jaws.

5 Quick Questions

Five Quick Questions with: Dan Wayne, taxidermist and Bigfoot documentarian

December 14, 2021 0

We caught up with Eagle Scout Dan Wayne to ask him five quick questions about his new film.

App Feed - For Leaders

Registration now open for 2023 World Scout Jamboree in South Korea

December 13, 2021 2

Registration is now open to join the BSA contingent at the 2023 World Scout Jamboree, set to kick off on Aug. 1, 2023, in Saemangeum, South Korea.

App Feed - For Parents

A Christmas tree safety quiz

December 11, 2021 1

As you deck the halls this season, check out this safety quiz from the November-December 2018 issue of Scouting magazine.

App Feed - Outdoors

Unsung Heroes: Kayaking Scouters rescue family from drowning on fast-moving river

December 10, 2021 0

The friends had been paddling for about 20 miles when they heard a noise downriver. “Is that someone calling for help?” one of them said.

App Feed - Eagle Scouts

How Scouting put this meteorologist on his career path

December 9, 2021 0

As Andrew Adams worked his way up the ranks of Scouting, there was one experience that just might have had more long-term impact than all the others.

App Feed - For Leaders

Proof that earning Eagle isn’t the only sign of a successful Scouting experience

December 8, 2021 14

“Matt’s text filled me with such pride, knowing that Matt has indeed personally experienced the true goal of Scouting,” his Scoutmaster says. 

App Feed

Life Scout teaches ESL students to build computers for his Eagle Scout project

December 7, 2021 0

Scout combines passion for computers with need to help students who speak English as a second language.

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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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