Scouting in the News

http://www.youtube.com/v/iOMt8KGnP80&fs=1 The yearlong celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America hasn't even reached its halfway point, but hundreds of major news outlets from across the country have taken notice. The video

This summer's national jamboree isn't the only time thousands of Scouts and Scouters will gather to celebrate the BSA's 100th Anniversary. Headline-making council activities are already under way. Check out a few recent news stories

How's this for high adventure? This September, the Mid-America Council is hosting an urban rappelling money-earning event. For $1,000 per person, people from the community and surrounding area can rappel down the side of a

That ringing sound you heard this morning wasn't in your head. It was on Wall Street, where the Opening Bell was sounded by representatives from the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of

Stephen Bechtel Jr. gave the BSA $50 million to help build Scouting's fourth high-adventure base. So it should come as no surprise that Bechtel believes in the power of the BSA. "I just felt this

Some people have all the luck. Last weekend, in addition to racing pinewood derby cars against NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, a group of Atlanta Cub Scouts met Steve Holcomb, driver of the gold medal-winning U.S.