Have you ever slept 300 feet underground? Stood atop a 14,000-foot peak? Created a robot? The BSA is betting those questions and other enticing messages will help bring prospective members to your Venturing crew. It’s
Want to get your unit’s recruiting up to speed? Consider hauling your “Join Scouting” message everywhere your pack, troop, team, or crew travels. Start by taking a page from Canton, Ohio, Troop 4’s playbook, which
Here’s a new job for Mike Rowe, he of Dirty Jobs fame: Keynote speaker at a gathering of BSA professionals and volunteers. Rowe traded his usual duds — well, he kept the jeans — for a nicely
Don’t tell your non-Scouting friends, but Scouts aren’t the only ones who have fun at pack, troop, team, or crew events. Yes, the program is for Scouts, but as you and I know, adults get
Earlier this month, I mentioned that Pip wowed the crowd at the BSA’s National Annual Meeting with his rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Now you can see what all the fuss was about. Pip Arnold, the
Hard work pays. And in the case of these four Eagle Scouts, I mean that quite literally. The recipients of the four most-prestigious scholarships from the National Eagle Scout Association have one thing in common,
I love what the Boy Scouts of America’s Marketing team has done with its new recruiting materials. (If you haven’t seen them, drop everything and take a look.) But my BSA pride doesn’t preclude me
Amateur radio: Fun but not free. That makes the recent sponsorship agreement between the Boy Scouts of America and Icom America, a world leader in the amateur radio market, such big news. The deal makes
Well if the BSA IndyCar had to lose on Saturday night, at least it was like this. James Jakes and the Boy Scouts of America No. 19 car finished 10th at the Firestone 550 in
To be honest, this week’s Photo Friday topic — Great Moments at Summer Camp — is a little redundant. After all, it’s hard to find any moment at summer camp that isn’t great. I speak