Multisport, an athletic competition that features a combination of two or more sports, is now a Scouting America merit badge. Scouts BSA members, along with Sea Scouts and Venturers who have earned the rank of First Class in a troop, may begin work on the merit badge beginning in March 2025, when the pamphlet becomes […]

On February 9, Cub Scouts from Pack 651 of Summit Station, Pennsylvania, delivered Valentine’s Day gifts to senior residents at two local nursing and rehab centers. The Cub Scouts made gifts and signed cards during their weekly meetings. The activity helped them earn time for their citizenship and community service-related requirements. Cubmaster Kevin Huneke shared

The Scouts BSA program is designed to be led by youth and guided by adults. You’d have a hard time finding a better illustration of that philosophy than at this week’s Scouting America National Executive Board meeting when a handful of members from the Scouts BSA National Youth Council spoke eloquently and powerfully to a

This frigid winter is the perfect time to go ice skating, but at Camp Yawgoog, summertime is also great. This past summer, the Narragansett Council camp welcomed Scouts to an off-site program that allowed them to get on the ice. The council partnered with the University of Rhode Island, a 25-minute drive from the camp, and

If you dig under the couch cushions or root through your car, you could find your Scout’s next hobby, a rewarding and fascinating endeavor that can teach them history, economics and the enjoyment of collecting. Numismatics is a hobby that focuses on currency, whether it’s coins, medals, tokens or paper money. Hundreds of years ago,

Armani Rodriguez wasn’t sure he wanted to continue in Scouting. He had been in the program since he was a Cub Scout. His father was a Scoutmaster. He had seen his older brother Nathaniel earn the Eagle Scout rank. Scouting was engrained in his family. Still, as a teenager, he was instead focused on another