Think the Eagle Scout Award is rare? Check out the Sea Scouting Quartermaster Award. First earned around 1930, the Quartermaster Award is Sea Scouting’s highest honor. Just how rare is it? Keeping in mind that
Where do our values come from? For Ken Krogue, the Eagle Scout and Forbes.com contributor, the idea of values first showed up in Scouts, were further developed at the U.S. Naval Academy, and even made
You can’t promote world peace by sitting on your couch. No, you’ve got to follow the lead of units like Venturing Crew 122 of North Carolina’s Tuscarora Council. The Venturers and advisors of Crew 122, along with some
Behold the power of “Yes.” When Crystal Bueno and her husband first saw the go-kart their Tiger Cub sons were given at a council derby Saturday in Brooklyn, their first reaction was “No.” “No way,” Crystal
You give graduates a gift when they reach the high point of their educational career. But what about when a young man reaches the pinnacle of Scouting? In other words: To gift or not to gift, that is
Perhaps your pack or troop meets Monday nights. Or maybe your family doesn’t have the National Geographic Channel. Whatever your excuse for missing Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout? — the six-episode reality series that matched
Who doesn’t love a good sequel? After last summer’s successful premiere of the BSA’s Visual Storytelling Workshops in Atlanta and at Philmont, the return engagement is almost upon us. Two more workshops are scheduled for 2013,
If a Scout camps several nights with his troop before getting a signed blue card from his Scoutmaster, do those nights count toward his earning Camping merit badge? That’s what a Scouter, who I’ll call