Registration is now open for the next Linked Troop Wood Badge course, set for Jan. 20-24, 2025, at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia. Wood Badge is an advanced leadership training course open to Scouting volunteers, participants and commissioned professionals ages 18 and older. Leaders from Cub Scouting, Scouts BSA, Venturing, Sea Scouts and Explorers …
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There’s no better way to learn leadership skills than Wood Badge, and there’s no more innovative Wood Badge experience than the Linked Troop Wood Badge course, scheduled for Jan. 15-29, 2024, at the Summit Bechtel Reserve. Wood Badge, the advanced leadership course open only to Scouting volunteers and professionals, is great no matter where you …
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In more than 20 years of writing about the BSA, I’ve heard participants claim the “pinnacle” of their youth experience as anything from earning the rank of Eagle to taking a trip to a high-adventure base or even spending a week at summer camp with their friends. But when it comes to the adult Scouting …
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For years, the Great Rivers Council’s winter camporee didn’t have great attendance. As part of his Wood Badge ticket, Aaro Froese, a district executive in the council, wanted to change that. Wood Badge is an advanced adult leadership training course. Many Scouters call it one of the best courses they’ve ever taken. As part of the course, you come …
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UPDATE: This course, originally scheduled for January 2022, was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. This story has been updated to reflect the new course dates of Oct. 24-28, 2022. At first, it sounds like a reality TV pitch: What happens when you bring together 64 strangers from across the country and challenge them to …
A new Wood Badge course planned for this summer near Austin, Texas, will expand Scouting’s reach by partnering with historically Black fraternities and sororities to engage and train more Black Scouting leaders, equip volunteers with ideas and inspiration, and strengthen Scouting within local communities. Bobby Ray Williams, an Eagle Scout and executive board member in …
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A century ago, in a forest not far from London, a group of Scouting volunteers made history. Over a span of nearly two weeks, they experienced a course, devised by Scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell, that offered “practical instruction as to how a camp should be run.” Quite a bit has changed since the world’s first …
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An inventive new Wood Badge course, scheduled for January 2020 at the Summit Bechtel Reserve, will give participants a chance to experience the “linked troop” model used by many Scouts BSA troops. Everything about the course breaks the Wood Badge mold in exciting ways. There’s the fresh format, the location at the BSA’s newest high-adventure …
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Update, Nov. 20, 2019: The book is back in stock at a new publisher. You can order it here. A new book published by the Boy Scouts of America tracks the fascinating history of Wood Badge, from its founding by Lord Baden-Powell in 1919 to its current role as the BSA’s essential training program for …
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Even as Wood Badge prepares to turn 100 next year, it’s still charting new territory. Last month, a group of Scouters from across the country held the first Wood Badge course in the history of the Summit Bechtel Reserve. While the syllabus for this essential leadership training for Scout leaders was unchanged, this was a Wood …
