All across the country, Scout units are hosting Join Nights, School Nights for Scouting and other recruiting events.
In Coral Springs, Florida, Pack 246 is already promoting their Join Scouting Night.
“The Scouting program is designed to offer something for the entire family,” according to this article from Coral Springs Talk. “It focuses on developing essential life skills, building character and fostering lifelong friendships. It’s an invitation to be part of a community where young minds are shaped through exciting activities and meaningful experiences that will stay with them for life.”
Pack 65 in Corpus Christi, Texas, has already hosted its recruiting night.
“Just like when you’re raising your kids, you don’t raise them for one year,” one adult leader told Kris 6 News. “Even in college, you’re still raising your kids. We want to set them up for life, and I think Scouting is a great way to do that.”
Missouri’s Pony Express Council has set up a web page that lists all of the joining events in their area. More than 20 events are currently listed.
“Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA provide fun programming,” district director Erik McGuire told News-Press Now. “Activities are focused on character, citizenship, personal fitness and leadership.”
In Syracuse, Indiana, Scouts BSA Troop 728 is hosting an event they call a Back-to-Scouts Roundup.
And in Zanesville, Ohio, the Muskingham Valley Council is hosting a recruiting event at a local farm.
“Scouting has been around for over 100 years, and it is still instilling the oath and the law, the values,” Zecchariah Bauer, the council’s vice president of marketing, told Fox 5 WHIZ News. “The other thing that it does is it teaches leadership skills, it allows youth to try new things, things they wouldn’t normally do.”
Cub Scouts visit boating museum
Pack 3 in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, recently visited the New Jersey Museum of Boating, where they learned about the rich history of boating in that region and even built their own model boats.
“They put the model together — it was a 9-inch Barnegat Bay rowboat model, made of wood,” a representative from the museum told Star News Group. “The kids assembled it, glued it together and then they took them home, where they’re painting them now.”
The Scouts will return to the museum in a couple of weeks and have an award contest for categories like most brightly painted and the cleanest painted model.
Three friends go from Cub Scout to Eagle Scout together
Three boys from Winter Haven, Florida, who became friends as Cub Scouts, have now each earned the rank of Eagle.
Each of their Eagle Scout service projects benefitted their local community.
One built a gaga ball pit for a local school. Another led a project to help waterfowl conservation. And the third focused his efforts on improving a local restored wetlands site.
Learn more in this story from the Winter Haven Sun.
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