Posts Tagged ‘Brian On Scouting’

Editor’s note: This guest blog post was written by Suzanne Tiernan, communications director for the Sea Base Alumni and Friends Association.  First, there was Hurricane Harvey. The news was full of damage reports and people helping each other. Then came Hurricane Irma. We followed its track and watched it grow as it headed towards the U.S.…

For his Eagle Scout service project, Adam Moore built a hotel. Brick by brick — and without a drop of glue — Adam’s one-twentieth-scale Lego model of the historic Strater Hotel in Durango, Colo., took shape. In 2015, Adam and the group of Scouts under his leadership donated the completed model to the landmark hotel.…

Does your Cub Scout create culinary concoctions that wow his friends and family? Did your Boy Scout master the merit badge in Cooking? Is your young Venturer a regular Rachael Ray? If any of those is a “yes,” Top Chef Jr. wants to know about it. Top Chef Jr. is seeking young chefs ages 9 to 14 for…

You’re packing for a winter camping trip. Tent, check. Warm clothes, check. Food, check. Bear bag… Do you really need a bear bag? It’s winter, after all. Aren’t the bears hibernating? Well, first of all, bears don’t hibernate like other mammals. Their body temperature drops by about 12 degrees during their wintertime slumbers, as opposed…

In Tom’s troop, the adult leaders wear nametags. The Scouts do not. But with the troop now more than 100 Scouts strong, it’s getting tougher to know which Scout is Aiden and which is Jayden. That led Tom’s troop to consider nametags for youth members. “We feel it would help not only the adult leaders…

Reading about our country’s missions to space? That’s a small step toward understanding the people power involved. Experiencing those missions yourself, seeing the actual rockets towering above you and chatting with people passionate about space exploration? That’s a giant leap toward inspiring a young person for life. Hands-on STEM experiences are what Space Camp is all…

After the BSA Board of Directors’ historic decision to welcome girls into Scouting, many in the Scouting community had just one question: When can my daughter sign up? Other Scouters had more specific questions about the reasons for the move, implementation and rollout plan. On Oct. 30, I asked Scouters to submit their questions for BSA…

An icon of the American West, the longtime president of Coca-Cola and a man who died in the sinking of the Lusitania. Names and these and other fascinating Americans grace BSA camps across the country. The names of Scout camps offer an interesting entry point into the history of Scouting, a particular community or the nation…

Nearly 38 million fire extinguishers manufactured by Kidde and sold between 1973 and 2017 are part of a nationwide recall. Scout leaders should check their unit meeting sites, troop trailers, trunks and garages today to see whether their fire extinguishers are included. There have been nearly 400 reports of affected models failing to activate in…

There was a moment when Dr. David Hunt worried he was losing his audience’s attention as he discussed his job studying bones at the Smithsonian Natural History museum. He had shown the Scouts and Venturers a femur fractured by a 50-caliber bullet in the Civil War. He explained how clothing leaches its colors into bone, allowing researchers to…