The BSA is currently recruiting volunteers to serve on the Jamboree’s emergency management team, responsible for providing security and emergency medical services, and otherwise doing what they can to make sure the event runs smoothly.
So how do you run a troop that keeps kids of all ages interested? For Troop 4010B out of Clarksville, Indiana, the answer is to focus on what they call their “big trip.”
Do your toes get cold while going outside in the winter? Putting on a hat can help. Do you like baggy clothes? That’ll serve you well if outside in cold weather. What are the three W’s of cold-weather camping?
As a young person living with epilepsy, Gavin Bouchey knows that it’s all fine and well if he, his family members and his fellow Scouts BSA members know who to respond to a seizure. But what about everyone else?
Mitchell Whitley, a native of Greensboro, N.C., a graduate of Samford University, and an Eagle Scout, has set a unique goal: to personally meet every mayor in his home state. There are 551 of them.
To get to Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS), one of the most remote scientific research stations in the world, you must first get to a rural area called Tumbaco, just outside Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
Some of us leave our diets and healthy eating habits at home when we head out on a hike, campout or other outdoor adventure. But needing more calories to fuel your fun doesn’t mean you should eat like a teenager.
I have watched as some families sit on the edges of their seats, fixated intently on every race in which their child participates, while others talk with each other and have a good time, even as they are mostly uninterested in the results of the races themselves.