Posts Tagged ‘Brian On Scouting’

We think of Wood Badge as a way to deepen our impact within our immediate circles: at home, in Scouting, at work. But Kevin Etter, whose Wood Badge critter is a Bear, has unlocked a way to bring Wood Badge principles beyond Scouting and, indeed, beyond American borders. Etter works for UPS as something called a humanitarian logistician.…

A Boy Scout won Season 2 of MasterChef Junior back in December 2014. If you ask me, it’s time for seconds. MasterChef Junior, the Fox competition that awards $100,000 to a preteen cook, is hosting open casting calls for Season 6 in New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Houston, and Jacksonville, Fla. The young cook must be at least 8 years old by…

A software developer by day and an assistant Cubmaster by night (and weekends), Randy Farmer has one of the coolest hobbies imaginable. Farmer (top row, left) is a member of Chaos Corps, a robot-building team from Atlanta that will appear in tonight’s Season 2 premiere of BattleBots on ABC. In BattleBots (8 p.m./7 p.m. Central tonight), robots equipped with jets…

To grow Scouting, consider looking in communities where Scouting hasn’t yet flourished. That’s a skill Brian Collins has perfected. By tapping into underserved markets, this assistant Scoutmaster and district commissioner in the Central Florida Council has started new Scouting units in unexpected places. New packs, troops, teams, posts, ships and crews enrich communities that need Scouting most — including areas with diverse races, religions and…

I’ll give you three good reasons to be excited about the future of Scouting. Their names are Nicholas, Anthony and Justin Neves. In January, this set of triplets from Troop 46 of Montgomery Township, N.J., received the Eagle Scout Award. They lived Scouting’s adventure together, so there was never a question of whether they’d earn Scouting’s highest…

“Helping other people at all times” includes those times you don’t anticipate. So when two Eagle Scouts and an assistant Scout executive came across the scene of a single-car rollover accident on Thursday, June 16, in Georgia, there was never a question of what they would do. They leapt into action to help the injured driver until emergency workers arrived. It…

In 1916, the 6-year-old Boy Scouts of America faced increasing competition from other organizations — groups that wished to capitalize on the growing interest in all things Scouting generated by the BSA. These imitators, Scouting magazine reported at the time, could “destroy the meaning of the Scout uniform and emblems” and rob boys of “the knowledge and the dexterity for which…

Waiting on that Scout to email or call you back? You could be waiting a long time. These days, three-fourths of teens have smartphones, and their favorite way to communicate is by texting, according to the latest research. If you’re a Scout leader, that isn’t news to you. But how does the Youth Protection rule prohibiting one-on-one contact apply to texting? That was the question…

Note: This is the 16th in an occasional series where I share Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos. See the complete collection here. To fully understand the impact Eagle Scout projects have on communities, you need to see to believe. That’s why I asked to see Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos — the same photos prospective Eagles are asked to include with their post-project report. This…

Bob Heft loved flags, and he loved politics. So when his U.S. History teacher handed out a homework assignment in 1958, Heft had the perfect idea. He would design something nobody had seen: a 50-star version of the American flag. Heft, a high school junior and Boy Scout in Troop 113 of Lancaster, Ohio, had been reading the news and knew…