Aaron Derr, Author at Aaron On Scouting

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Register now for the next Linked Troop Wood Badge course

October 9, 2024 1

Registration is now open for the next Linked Troop Wood Badge course, set for Jan. 20-24, 2025, at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia. Wood Badge is an advanced leadership training course open to Scouting

The October 2024 issue of Scout Life magazine is chock-full of family-friendly goodness

October 7, 2024 0

It’s been more than 113 years since our organization’s flagship youth publication — formerly known as Boys’ Life, now called Scout Life — made its debut. One thing that hasn’t changed: The magazine is still one of the best sources of fun, engaging, entertaining content for kids out there.

Philmont’s 2026 reservation window is open now!

October 2, 2024 0

Building character, learning to work as a team and becoming a leader: Everything that’s awesome about Scouting is encapsulated at Philmont Scout Ranch.

Here are the Eagle Scouts in the NFL in 2024

September 30, 2024 6

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to create your own Scouting recruiting flyers in just 5 minutes

September 10, 2024 0

The Scouting America Brand Center’s #AdventureOn! DIY templates are intended to simplify the process of creating custom recruiting assets for Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA.

Suicide is a growing public health crisis; here’s how Scouting is trying to help

September 9, 2024 2

Suicide — and suicide attempts — are serious public health challenges. When reading over the CDC’s list of strategies for preventing suicide, I couldn’t help but notice how Scouting can help with many of them.