In more than 20 years of writing about the BSA, I’ve heard participants claim the “pinnacle” of their youth experience as anything from earning the rank of Eagle to taking a trip to a high-adventure
Why does actor Ashton Kutcher keep walking around the streets of Los Angeles in a BSA uniform, for all the paparazzi to see? Sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one: He’s a registered leader in the BSA.
The BSA is currently recruiting volunteers to serve on the Jamboree’s emergency management team, responsible for providing security and emergency medical services, and otherwise doing what they can to make sure the event runs smoothly.
I have watched as some families sit on the edges of their seats, fixated intently on every race in which their child participates, while others talk with each other and have a good time, even as they are mostly uninterested in the results of the races themselves.