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Month: September 2024

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Here are the Eagle Scouts in the NFL in 2024

September 30, 2024 7

These are men who grew up in an era in which youth sports is almost a full-time job, and at the same time they were all able to advance to the highest rank in Scouting.

App Feed - Scouts BSA

Eagle Scout project garners praise from NFL star, plus other news in Scouting this week

September 27, 2024 0

Eagle Scout project garners praise from NFL star, plus other news in Scouting this week including a Scout host blood and food drive for service project and a Scout builds gaga pit for elementary school.

App Feed

This pack adopts family’s service project to help underserved students

September 26, 2024 0

Working with a grocery store and local television station, Pack 443 in Spanish Springs, Nev., gathered enough school supplies to fill 150 backpacks.

App Feed - For Parents

The chair of Scouting America’s Youth Protection Committee is one of the world’s experts on child abuse prevention

September 25, 2024 0

All told, Michael Bourke has studied more than 1,000 sex offenders over the last three decades, using his Ph.D. in psychology to try to understand them and, in turn, to help the rest of us keep our kids safe from them.

App Feed - For Leaders

Here’s one of the easiest things you can do to help people join Scouting

September 23, 2024 0

It’s 2024, so when you sign up for something or ask a question online, you probably expect to get a response pretty quickly. That’s also true for the thousands of people on BeAScout.org looking to join Scouting or get more information on a Scouting unit.

App Feed - Scouts BSA

Eagle Scout projects are for the dogs, plus more positive news in Scouting this week

September 20, 2024 0

This week in Scouting features a cool recruiting video, Eagle Scouts use their service projects to help dogs and a Scout restores forgotten cemetery.

App Feed

These two Eagle Scouts are helping protect NFL and college football players

September 19, 2024 0

Protecting players has been of greater emphasis among football programs and leagues in recent years, and two Eagle Scouts are helping support that push with Guardian Caps.

A photo of John, Cate and Beau Buchan
App Feed - Eagle Scouts

Three Eagle Scout siblings are striving to make robotics accessible to everyone

September 17, 2024 0

Let’s Bot! Is a socially inclusive initiative that aims to prove that robotics are accessible to all and that technology is just as much for girls as it is for boys.

App Feed - Eagle Scouts

This NASA astronaut just became the oldest Eagle Scout to go to space

September 16, 2024 2

Don Pettit, a 69-year-old Eagle Scout from Silverton, Oregon, is serving as a flight engineer and member of Expedition 72 on the International Space Station. It is Pettit’s fourth journey into space and will add to the 370 days he had already accumulated in orbit.

App Feed - Scouts BSA

New Jersey Scouts honor 9/11 victims, plus other news from this week

September 13, 2024 0

This week in Scouting we look at New Jersey Scouts honor 9/11 victims, a Scout recycles bottle caps in a unique way, a Scout completes family-inspired project one year after start date and an Eagle Scout is honored by local officials.

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