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  • [ November 28, 2023 ] National Sea Scouts boatswain promotes program App Feed
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Eagle Before & After

Extreme Makeovers, Round 51: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

August 24, 2023 0

To fully understand the impact Eagle Scout projects have on communities, you need to see to believe. That’s why we ask to see Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos.

Before cemetery cleanup on the left; after cemetery cleanup on the right
Eagle Before & After

Extreme Makeovers, Round 50: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

July 18, 2023 1

To fully understand the impact Eagle Scout projects have on communities, you need to see to believe. That’s why we ask to see Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos — the same photos prospective Eagles are asked to include with their post-project report.

Eagle Scout Before and After
App Feed - Eagle Scouts

Extreme Makeovers, Round 48: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

May 9, 2023 1

The latest batch of 9 projects, including a new storage shed for a ball field, a new pavilion for a park and a new mural for a wall in school.

Eagle Scout

Scout creates nonprofit to keep veterans’ names alive

April 19, 2023 1

Connor Nicols created We Will Remember, a nonprofit organization with the mission of keeping the names of fallen veterans alive.

Ask the Expert

Can Scout units participate in political rallies?

November 2, 2022 0

The BSA might be the most patriotic organization in the U.S. But we don’t endorse any party. Here’s the policy on participation in political rallies.

App Feed - Eagle Scouts

Why removing invasive species is a worthy project — from a Scout who’s done it

October 26, 2022 7

“I always wanted my Eagle Project to be a means of supporting my goal of environmental sustainability,” says Siddha, from Troop 761 in Ashburn, Va. “It is our duty to take care of our environment and to leave it better than we found it.”

App Feed - Famous Scouts

“Jaws” turns 45 this weekend. Do you remember the Scout reference?

June 19, 2020 20

There are lots of famous scenes in Jaws, but there’s one scene you might have missed unless you happened to be looking for it.

Cub Scouting

Scouts: Let’s make a MASSIVE video to thank essential workers

May 5, 2020 16

Record a 5-10 second video and we’ll add it to a compilation to make sure these heroes know how much Scouts appreciate them.

Fun

Take your kids on a #TrekAt2 without leaving your house

April 6, 2020 3

Your kids can take on rugged explorations they’ve never imagined!

Scouting in the News

Joe Theismann: Values of the Scout Law ‘don’t leave you’

August 30, 2013 7

As a Dallas Cowboys fan, it hurts me a little to type this, but here goes: Joe Theismann is the man. I mean, how many Super Bowl-winning former quarterbacks can recite the Boy Scout Law

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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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