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Inspired by a story the Scouts read in Boys’ Life magazine, a troop from Florida is heading to Montana this month for a once-in-a-lifetime ski trip. Over four days, they’ll tour Yellowstone National Park on a snowcat, work on the Snow Sports merit badge, learn about avalanche rescue from members of the ski patrol and spend…

Ripley Rendezvous 2019 will be held the Camp Ripley Army National Guard Training Facility, Camp Ripley, Little Falls, MN. This spring time event is truly a unique opportunity to utilize the training facility’s ranges and buildings in presenting three distinct levels of involvement. Extreme Program: Limit of 1,000 youth and adults;  Youth:Age 14+ or Venturer Adventurer Program: Limit  of…

$1,000 SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Eagle Scout Scholarships—Each year up to twenty four $1,000 Scholarships and one $2,000 scholarship are awarded to graduating high school seniors in Northern Star Council. Endowed Scholarships include Camp Staff, Technical School, Southeast Asian Scout and more. Applications are available online starting October 15, 2018 and close January 15, 2019. 2019 EAGLE…

Matt Parsons, an Eagle Scout and Sea Scout from Delaware, has been elected by his peers to serve as National Chief of the Order of the Arrow. Parsons, along with National Vice Chief Eric Harrison of Illinois and four region chiefs, will serve and represent nearly 200,000 members of the OA, the Boy Scouts of…

It just takes a moment to make your pack, troop or crew a little bit safer. With its Safety Moments, covering a range of topics from acute mountain sickness to zip lines, the Boy Scouts of America’s Health and Safety team hopes to make Scouting an even safer place, one page at a time. “These…

Fellow Scouters, 2019 is off to a great start. Scoutbook, the Boy Scouts of America’s online tool for managing and tracking Scouting advancement, is now completely, totally, 100 percent free. The change became official today — Jan. 1, 2019. Longtime users know how Scoutbook makes it easy (and fun!) for Scouts, parents and leaders to track…

Thank you to all of the great unit leaders, Scouts, parents, and other friends and families who made this a fantastic recruitment year! While we were just shy of our total growth numbers (within 60 of our goal), we made a substantial increase in the number of new Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts recruited this…

A Scout’s promise “to help other people at all times” doesn’t take spring break off. That’s why hundreds of Scouts, Venturers and adult volunteers will gather at Philmont Scout Ranch in March and early April for Philbreak 2019, a chance to help the legendary Scouting destination recover from the Ute Park Fire. Ever since the…

We are pleased to announce that the district has migrated to a new calendar system. The new system includes an ICAL feature that allows access to the district calendar from other applications. You can copy and paste our address into any calendar product that supports the ICAL format. When events are added, deleted, or changed…