Posts Tagged ‘Brian On Scouting’

The Boy Scouts of America announced that it will move the National Scouting Museum to Philmont Scout Ranch in northeastern New Mexico from its current home in Irving, Texas. The relocation will take place over the next 18 months, with the museum scheduled to open at Philmont in 2018. Thanks to the support of some generous donors,…

From the start, the Eagle Scout court of honor for Brian O’Rourke III in Cambridge, Mass., was destined to be special. Brian’s grandfather, Glen McLaughlin, traveled all the way from California to be there. There was a slideshow that had many in tears. And the new Eagle gave a speech saying he started Scouting “as a self-conscious and…

The Boy Scouts of America has selected two young people to serve as the 2016-2017 NRA/BSA Brownell Youth Ambassadors. In this role, the pair will represent all Boy Scouts and Venturers at a variety of shooting sports industry events. They’ll work in support of the BSA and the National Rifle Association to promote responsible shooting sports activities within Scouting.…

There’s a guy spending a decade walking around the world. Just let that sink in for a sec. Photo by Mark Schulte His route traces the pathways of the first humans and spans 21,000 miles. In a refreshing departure from the norm, he isn’t looking to break some sort of speed record. In fact, the Out of Eden…

Some of the best Scouting happens in National Park Service sites — including national parks, national monuments, national battlefields and more. So it’s only, well, natural for Scouting and the National Park Service to become close friends. That makes it nice but unsurprising to learn that the Boy Scouts of America and the National Park Service…

The instant you join Scouting, your family grows. Your circle of support widens. When John Halterman died unexpectedly in October 2015, the Cub Scouts and parents of San Diego Pack 624 showed the truth of that statement. It was March 2015 at the Halterman house when John brought a dusty old box to his 7-year-old son, Nathan. The box…

The Boy Scouts of America’s National Key 3 has a special holiday message for you and the members of your Scouting family. The video message opens with a montage of Scouts and Venturers saying, in their own words, what they learned in Scouting in 2016. Then the National Key 3 takes the screen. National Commissioner Charles W. Dahlquist II,…

Whether you know the World Conservation Award as the “panda patch” or as the award that encourages Scouts and Venturers to think globally and act locally to improve and conserve our environment, there’s something you need to know. The BSA National Conservation and Environment Task Force has announced new requirements for the Cub Scout, Boy Scout and Venturing/Sea Scout…

No pressure, but if your troop meetings aren’t exciting and extraordinary, you risk losing Scouts to other activities. In other words, one bad meeting could be a young man’s last. So how do you add “wow” to your weekly troop meetings? You start by listening to the December 2016 ScoutCast, the latest episode of the…

Some benefits of Scouting show up right away. Others take months, years or even decades to be appreciated fully. Into that latter category goes a new study from Great Britain that suggests adults who were in Scouting as young people have better mental health. The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,…