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Scouts, leaders honored with awards at the World Scout Jamboree

August 8, 2019 15

Scouts worked on awards at the World Scout Jamboree — from Eagle Scout board of reviews to a jamboree-specific challenge.

Scouts honor 75th anniversary of D-Day at Normandy Camporee 2019

May 20, 2019 8

This chance to witness a place so vital to world history brought thousands of Scouts to France for the Transatlantic Council’s Normandy Camporee 2019.

How to join the BSA contingent at Scouting events in Brazil or Poland in 2020

April 10, 2019 4

In 2020, the BSA will send a contingent of Scouts and adult leaders to international Scouting events in Brazil and Poland.

How a trip to Kandersteg in Switzerland changed this Eagle Scout’s life

January 28, 2019 12

Over winter break, Dakota Scott spent a week at Kandersteg in Switzerland. He met 29 young people from 15 different national Scout organizations.

Have a very particular set of skills? The World Scout Jamboree needs you on staff

December 14, 2018 9

The 2019 World Scout Jamboree still needs a few Scouters with special skills to help make this once-in-a-generation event truly world class.

These countries are coming to the 2019 World Scout Jamboree

November 28, 2018 8

Four out of every five people at the 2019 World Scout Jamboree will be from a country that isn’t the United States.

Scout’s Eagle project earns World Scouting award, trip to United Nations

October 12, 2018 2

Mikaeel Martinez Jaka, a Life Scout from Virginia, received the World Organization of the Scout Movement’s prestigious Messengers of Peace Heroes Award.

In a world too often seen through a screen, ‘Scouting reminds us there’s another way’

August 30, 2018 4

As the pace of our world quickens, families have fewer opportunities for face-to-face interactions and outdoors experiences. That’s why Didi Gorman is thankful for Scouting.

This Scout wanted to help his home away from home — in South Africa

August 28, 2018 2

When word reached a Tennessee Life Scout about a school in need of help, he decided to do his Eagle Scout project in a village more than 8,000 miles away from his hometown.

From knots to explosives awareness, Scouters in NATO guide Afghan Scouts

August 15, 2018 8

Scouters who are stationed in Afghanistan as part of NATO’s support mission devote their time teaching skills in the Middle Eastern country’s revived Scouting program.