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  • [ November 18, 2025 ] Registration is open for one of Scouting’s most unique events for older youth App Feed - For Parents
  • [ November 17, 2025 ] Register now to join the USA contingent at the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Poland App Feed - For Parents
  • [ November 14, 2025 ] Scouting America pays tribute to veterans, plus other news this week Scouting in the News
  • [ November 12, 2025 ] buildOn Treks allow Scouts to develop character and serve others brick by brick App Feed - For Parents
  • [ November 11, 2025 ] Eagle Scout project memorializes 14,000 soldiers who fought in the Battle of Okinawa App Feed

Training

App Feed - Health and Safety

This troop gets all its adult leaders trained in first aid, and it paid off

May 30, 2022 1

“It’s good to have a lot of people out there who can help if they have to,” says Jay Fox, Scoutmaster and Red Cross-certified instructor. “Scouts should always Be Prepared, because, you know, stuff like this happens.”

App Feed - For Parents

Acoustic Music Camp is just the latest fun offering at Philmont Training Center

May 4, 2022 0

The only thing better than sitting around a campfire with a group of Scouts is sitting around a campfire with a group of Scouts with a guitar.

App Feed - For Leaders

Divine Nine Wood Badge course aimed at training more Black Scouting leaders

March 18, 2022 2

A new Wood Badge course planned for this summer near Austin, Texas, will expand Scouting’s reach by training Black Scouting leaders.

Scouting Tips

Catch tonight’s webinar for tips on how to get more Scouts in your troop!

September 30, 2021 0

The marketing and membership webinar series is bringing you a much-requested topic with some of the most knowledgeable and energetic guest speakers in Scouting. Tonight (Sept. 30) at 8 p.m. Eastern, gain strategies for growing

App Feed

Now all Scouting volunteers can catch the Fall Membership Kickoff event July 27 (no registration required!)

July 23, 2021 1

True to the ever-dedicated spirit of Scouting volunteers, the overwhelming interest in July 27’s Momentum ’21 Fall Membership Kickoff event broke the internet! Well … kind of. This virtual conference is packed with so much

Training

Scouts can earn college credit for attending national leadership course

May 27, 2021 3

For the first time, those who attend the academy not only will learn how to teach NYLT courses in their home councils, but they can also get college credit for it.

Training

National Youth Leadership Training updated to better serve youth leaders

May 11, 2021 5

The council-offered youth leadership course was last updated in 2005.

App Feed - Outdoors

Interested in aquatics? Log online for the National Aquatics Conference

September 3, 2020 0

Now, instead of a four-day workshop, this conference will be a virtual series of seven Zoom sessions set over four weeks in September and October, available for free to any interested Scouter.

Sea Base

Fly south for the winter for a Florida Sea Base’s volunteer development conference

November 7, 2019 0

Pick from six weeklong conferences, each held in January 2020 at the BSA’s Florida home. Registration starts soon.

Summit Bechtel Reserve

‘Linked troop’ Wood Badge course at SBR will blaze a new trail for training

June 5, 2019 26

An inventive new Wood Badge course will give participants a chance to experience the “linked troop” model used by many Scouts BSA troops. 

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    November 11, 2025 1

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Aaron Derr is the senior editor of Aaron on Scouting and Scout Life magazine, and also a former Cubmaster and Scouts BSA volunteer.


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Michael Freeman, an Eagle Scout, is an associate editor of Scout Life and Scouting magazines.


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Sheniece Chappell is an associate editor of Scout Life and Scouting magazines.


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Bryan Wendell, an Eagle Scout, is the founder of Bryan on Scouting (now Aaron on Scouting).

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