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Winning formula: Eagle Scout wins world championship in Microsoft Excel

August 11, 2017 12

An Eagle Scout from Virginia won the Excel trophy at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in Anaheim, Calif.

One inspiring photo from summer camp shows what it means to be a Scout

July 5, 2017 5

Scouts are brave, helpful and kind. All three qualities are stirringly summarized in a single photo that comes to us from summer camp.

Parents of boy with autism were told to ‘try Scouting,’ and this happened

June 12, 2017 98

If you had to pick just one point of the Scout Law to describe Isaiah V., it would be brave. That same word applies to his mom and dad, too.

When a student brought a gun to school, one teen’s quick thinking saved classmates

June 5, 2017 8

A 13-year-old Star Scout received the BSA’s Honor Medal for his quick thinking when a classmate brought a gun to school.

Indiana mom: ‘I could not be the mother I am today’ without Scouting

May 30, 2017 2

Stephanie was raised in a house of women. She married into a Scouting family, and Scouting has helped her become a “better mom to my future Eagle Scouts.”

Cambodian refugee who fled ‘killing fields’ leads refugee unit in America

May 26, 2017 1

Decades after his family fled their native country, Saborn Va leads a group of 30 refugees as a Varsity team coach in the Great Salt Lake Council.

Against all odds, Eagle Scout attends friend’s wedding, troop’s 100th birthday on the same afternoon

May 15, 2017 0

Two once-in-a-lifetime events were scheduled for the same Saturday this month. The likelihood Bryan Zschiesche could attend both? Exceedingly slim.

Inner-city Scout troop forms three Special Olympics basketball teams

April 27, 2017 1

Troop 4 of Worcester, Mass., formed three Special Olympics basketball teams. What started as another big service project has grown into something magical.

Scout wrote powerful poem before cancer took him

April 19, 2017 42

Evan never let cancer hold him back from enjoying Scouting. And in a powerful poem, Evan encouraged us all to let nothing hold us back from enjoying life.