Update July 17, 2013: The grants have returned for click here for details. Consider it giving back to those who give back. Lowe’s, the home-improvement giant with more than 1,700 stores, has teamed up with the
You can’t blame this one on inflation. More than 60 years ago, the average age of a boy earning Eagle was 14.6. Today it’s 17.1. As we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Eagle Scout
Can’t be in Texas for tomorrow’s big Eagle Scout party? I’ve got the next best thing: Watch the Eagle Scout Heritage Celebration streaming live to your computer. At 11 a.m. (Central) on Saturday, Aug. 11,
By the time Eric Shanteau first put on a Cub Scout uniform, he had already been swimming for five years. As he got older, Shanteau, who learned to swim at age 3, found a way
There’s only one award from my childhood that I still list on my résumé. It isn’t “Honorable Mention, fourth-grade Science Fair,” and it’s definitely not “Participant, junior-senior talent show.” It’s the Eagle Scout award, that
Merrill Moses equates the silver medal he won at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to earning the rank of Life in Boy Scouts. Both are great achievements, but each is still a step away from
UPDATE (8:10 a.m., Aug. 1): Grant and Ross raced for Team USA this morning. See the results (spoiler!) or watch the video (start at 2:57:18). You’d expect twins to have a lot in common. But you’d
What is an “Eagle Scout”? The question seems deceptively simple. I mean, we know an Eagle Scout when we meet one. But coming up with an eloquent way to define Scouting’s highest honor is harder
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