Troop 181 baby YEAAHH!! FALL 1990. I called my parents to beg them to come get me.😂

Great job Selby!

Will scoutbook update to the new requirements soon? I got the new handbook but the current scoutbook doesn't agree with it.

Great idea. Question, how much plastic was used to make this project and what if it gets loose from the piers! Will it end up on the bottom of the ocean. Who is responsible for them? Just wondering!!!

Good to see the BSA is catching up with the AOL program changes. They should have done it years ago. I started doing the Boy Scout methods with my boys when they started Webelos in 4th grade and had great success. We graduated 12 into Boy Scouts and one crossed the bridge to the road of life (did not continue in scouts). We did patrol method - patrol leaders (new one elected each month so they all got a taste of it), patrol flag and yell, patrol patch on their uniforms, patrols in formation at start and end of meetings, patrols camped as patrols, patrols planned and cooked their meals for the campouts, (we camped about every two months). At every meeting they recited scout oath and law, had a chaplain aide, we did denners, etc. I pushed them beyond the Webelos/AOL requirements and they loved it and they grew - they were big boys! They performed. They could tie knots and lash, build fires and run a dutch oven. We stuck out at the cub scout gatherings and folks noticed how mature they were. Absolutely no bellyaching about it from the boys or the parents. I had several reliable parents that helped facilitate their work and it worked well.

We also do activities put on by the library like Lego club, stem activities that are indoors when it’s very hot here in the south

Have they fixed the bugs in the Hazardous Weather Training? We had numerous people try to take it and it locked up at about 98% and wouldn't complete it.

It's all about money. Not progress.

It would be great if that short list of recommended training modules for existing leaders to take could be made into a Learning Plan

Is there a roadmap to follow for those Cub Scouts (Arrow of Light) and Scouts? Is confusing when Cub Scouts have ranks and everything really structured. Is there a place where a Lone Scout can find the roadmap to follow to be an Eagle Scout? Thanks

How can I join boys scout of America

Thank you for mentioning commissioners! We work so hard in the background and don't always get noticed by rank and file scouters in the programs.

This is exciting. I hope there is support for Pack meetings too.

It’s one of my favorite camps I’ve been to

impressive! do a good turn daily

The comments below are very familiar to when UK Scouting changed to include girls back in the 1990's. It is now very normal to have mixed troops. I was a scout leader back then and had my reservations but looking back now I do wonder what all the fuss was about, it's just normal. It is also normal that people don't like change but change sometimes has to happen. Scouting is a force for good and in time it will be looked back on as welcome and a progressive move. By the way, the girls movement (The Guides) are still today just as successful.

These are great resources for planning den meetings. I was curious to know if you had a similar resource for planning pack meetings that take advantage of the similar aspects of individual rank adventures. Thanks

Could y'all please just wait til my kid gets his eagle before completely sinking the ship? We asked to be a part of the Boy Scouts based on the legacy they created, we didn't ask to be a part of your mission to turn it into something else

22:57 wow, you totally did not understand the question being asked here. Instead you heard the word engaging and went off on a totally different tangent. The question was how to keep AOL scouts connected to the rest of the pack, not how to entertain the AOL scouts.

From one eagle to another eagle congrats. I got my eagle in 1987. Welcome to the 4 percent club

Thank you for your wonderful comments!

This is the leading edge of Scouting, right here. Bravo!

This a opportunity lost, should have broadcast Roger Krone's discussion instead. History of the organization is important and a story that should be told, like BP's sister was key to starting a youth program for girls, the cooperation with Campfire Girls (started be BSA's founders wives) since 1910s, women leaders have been around since 1930's, Coed Explorers and Coed camp staff being a thing for over 50 years, and Scouting/USA was the branding in the late 1970s, etc, etc. Whoever is running the PR on this rollout, isn't doing a outstanding job. Again, opportunity lost.

This is a opportunity lost, should have broadcast Roger Krone's discussion instead. History of the organization is important and a story that should be told, like BP's sister was key to starting a youth program for girls, the cooperation with Campfire Girls (started be BSA's founders wives) since 1910s, women leaders have been around since 1930's, Coed Explorers and Coed camp staff being a thing for over 50 years, and Scouting/USA was the branding in the late 1970s, etc, etc. Whoever is running the PR on this rollout, isn't doing a outstanding job. Again, opportunity lost.

It’s odd that she seems to say they discouraged parents from attending even more than they discouraged the scoutmaster. The checks and balances part of the board would seem to be more difficult around a scoutmaster attending.

So… just to be clear. Boys and girls can join what used to be Boy Scouts, but Girl Scouts is exclusively for girls?

If the Bobcat Adventure is the first required and one of the requirements is "choose a Patrol name and elect a patrol leader", how will this work if you have new AOL scouts coming after the Den has already completed this adventure? I know she had mentioned that most of the time it's scouts that have been in the program awhile, but we do get new AOL scout through the school year. I think this needs to be modified from elect a patrol leader or learn how a patrol leader is selected. If election has not taken place then elect a patrol leader.

My daughter is the first Eagle from the first girl Troop in our town. She also started out as a Girl Scout. Went to Venturing, but when Scouts opened up for girls and a troop was established, she jumped right on it. I am very glad girls were admitted. It's been great for her.

she's amazing!

Wow just wow! She needs to be the face of scouting! What a message

I was involved with scouting as a kid and earned eagle. I won't associate with scouting now, and neither will my children.

Are these slides available somewhere?

I’m sorry she had a bad Girl Scout leader. And it’s wonderful she had such an amazing BSA leader. I know local Girl Scout groups that have hiked Fourteeners while my daughter’s BSA troop is afraid to backpack. I am disappointed to see her make light of the Girl Scout program that allows both the crafty stuff she mentioned but does include lots of outdoor challenges if the troop chooses to do that. The BSA (Scouting America) will say we aren’t in competition but then put speakers like this on the stage at National Meetings and KZfaq.

MIZZOU! As a UMC BSEE 1980 and 1974 Eagle Scout from Columbia MO Troop 3, awesome speech, and messaging! Scout on! Scouting America is for all youth. Let's welcome everyone and grow scouting.

Make the individual rank adventure pages into Progressive Web Apps so they can be installed and run like applications, please.

This will be the end of scouts, it a shame

This is very sad. Wokeness destroys everything. Scouts should be ashamed.

Oh my heart! I'm Boot on the Ground with you, Love! I will be showing clips of this @ my Venture Crew Interest Meeting tonight!! And to think, I've thought of "getting out of scouts" several times over the past 7 years. There is no scout tradition in my family. My 22 year old, Vigil Honor Eagle Scout now Camp Ranger son is the first. You are an inspiration for me to keep going. Thank you.

Sorry to say... but what is with the shaking (!!?!) - PLEASE use a tripod or something....

Now that we (Scouting America) no longer have a US Congress charter, are we allow to perform full US flags retirement ceremonies? I understand that BSA is allowed to conduct flag retirement ceremonies per US Congress charter, Scouting America is not.

This should be required viewing for all Scouts and Scouters, supporters of Girls Troops and the naysayers.

As an older eagle scout who has traveled and seen scouting around the globe, I am glad to see the American scouting program moving forward to catch up with the rest of the Western world's scouting programs. Hoping to see this continue into the future and see the program evolve as it acknowledges the actual science that boys and girls work and grow better together more than apart.

Amazing!

Such an inspirational scout!

Wasn't part of the reason the Boy Scouts of America were stood up was to counter other "scouting" groups in nations like the USSR? To build a strong, self-sufficient, skilled cadre of young American boys of physical, mental & moral character? Hey WOKE AmeriKa: Boys need "space" also. They need to be around good men in order to become good men. Girls need space. They need to be around good women in order to become good young women. Why is it that love for America & believing in God is bad in WOKE USA?

No wonder there struggling for funding and file for bankruptcy. Go woke go broke

Scouting USA was a better sounding name...... Scouting/USA was a "communicative name" chosen by the Boy Scouts of America in 1976 in an effort to rebrand itself.[1][2] The Scouting/USA symbol was unveiled at its biennial National Council meeting.[3] The organization retained the name Boy Scouts of America as its legal name, but planned to use the new name on literature, billboards, insignia, business cards and stationery and for most other promotional material.[1] They quietly abandoned this effort by 1980 and the printing of the ninth edition of the Boy Scout Handbook.[4]

Did this move to what scouting was to now begin under Mr Barack Obama? Further did it evolve to embracing WOKE in 2023/2024?

A sad day indeed. The WOKE agenda is ruining everything. Come Lord come !!!!!!

Interesting all the comments came from parents of girls and none from parents of young boys.