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NFL star speaks from the heart in Scouting America promotional video

January 9, 2025 3

As a six-year veteran of the NFL, David Montgomery has recorded a lot of commercials, voiceovers and other promotional materials. This one, however, hit different.

A photo of Eagle Scout rock climber Michael Vaill

Eagle Scout rock climber continues to reach for new heights

December 31, 2024 0

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Michael Vaill (Eagle Class of 2010) recently had one of the best weeks in the history of recorded rock climbing.

Scouts BSA troop celebrates 1,000th Eagle Scout, all under the same Scoutmaster

December 23, 2024 9

Mike Lanning became the Scoutmaster of Troop 223 in Pacific Palisades, California, in 1953, when he was 21 years old. More than 70 years later, Troop 223 is still going strong, and so is Lanning.

He’s volunteered for decades on Eagle Scout boards of review; here are his two favorite memories

December 18, 2024 2

Steve Scarano is a 76-year-old Eagle Scout currently living in Vista, California, who serves on Eagle Scout boards or review.

Kenneth Cooper Distinguished Eagle Scout

Founder of modern aerobics reflects on his career and time in Scouting

December 16, 2024 1

Kenneth Cooper, Eagle Scout, is the man who first coined the term aerobics and changed the way the world thought about the concept of exercise.

With application season upon us, we caught up with one of the original NESA scholarship recipients

December 12, 2024 0

To mark the 40th anniversary of NESA scholarships, my friends in the official alumni association for Eagle Scouts helped me track down one of the original recipients from 1984.

A port of Gabe Hassan, an Eagle Scout who died of leukemia

A tribute to Gabe Hassan, who fought a terminal illness to earn the rank of Eagle

December 4, 2024 2

When he was 1 year old, Gabe Hassan was diagnosed with Shwachman–Diamond syndrome, a rare genetic disorder in which a person’s cells cannot produce enough protein for their body to grow and develop as it should.a

This is the most commonly requested story from the Scouting magazine archives

November 20, 2024 3

A good story has the power to move you. A great story has the power to continue to make you feel things decades after it was published.

A photo of two recent high school graduates

NESA scholarship application season is almost here

November 11, 2024 0

The NESA scholarship application window opens in just a couple of weeks. Here’s everything you need to know before then.

Add one more name to the list of Nobel Prize-winning Eagle Scouts

October 16, 2024 0

Gary Ruvkun, a molecular biologist, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and Eagle Scout, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for the discovery of microRNA, the molecules that control our genes.