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How the journey to the Eagle Scout Award helped prepare these two teens for what comes next

How the journey to the Eagle Scout Award helped prepare these two teens for what comes next

Jan 15, 2021 | Bryan on Scouting

It’s been said that the journey to become an Eagle Scout is like climbing a mountain. In many ways, that’s a fair comparison. It’s not easy, and nobody can carry you to the top. When you reach that high point, your perspective improves and suddenly you can see what...
Eagle Scout’s adversity reminds him to keep ‘true north’ in sight

Eagle Scout’s adversity reminds him to keep ‘true north’ in sight

Jan 14, 2021 | Bryan on Scouting

Surviving a battle with cancer is certainly cause for celebration, but it might also lead to reassessing one’s life and finding purpose, especially after two bouts with the deadly disease. That’s the case with Dylan Slattery, who earned the Eagle Scout Award in 2009...
Points in history: Three things to know about why Scouts use the fleur-de-lis

Points in history: Three things to know about why Scouts use the fleur-de-lis

Jan 13, 2021 | Bryan on Scouting

It’s worn by kings and queens, Pelicans and Saints, and Scouts and Scouters. It’s found atop iron fence posts at private homes and famous landmarks, including London’s Buckingham Palace. And, perhaps most important of all, it has its own emoji: . So why do Scouts use...
Ten Pennsylvania Scouts complete Eagle projects during the pandemic

Ten Pennsylvania Scouts complete Eagle projects during the pandemic

Jan 12, 2021 | Bryan on Scouting

Completing an Eagle Scout project is hard — completing one during a pandemic is even harder, but it can be done, as proven by 10 Scouts in Troop 98 of Whitpain Township, Pa. Summer camp was cancelled as was the troop’s two-week backpacking trek at Philmont Scout...
Paul Dye, Eagle Scout and NASA’s longest-serving flight director, shares how Scouting ‘truly shaped who I am’

Paul Dye, Eagle Scout and NASA’s longest-serving flight director, shares how Scouting ‘truly shaped who I am’

Jan 11, 2021 | Bryan on Scouting

If you strolled the hallways of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in the 1990s, you would’ve heard men and women talking about the Mission Control, the Mir space station and the space shuttle Atlantis. You also would’ve heard them talking about Scouting. “It was...
Everything you need to know about Scout Sunday 2021, Scout Sabbath 2021 and Scout Jumuah 2021

Everything you need to know about Scout Sunday 2021, Scout Sabbath 2021 and Scout Jumuah 2021

Jan 8, 2021 | Bryan on Scouting

Each year on Feb. 8, the Boy Scouts of America celebrates its birthday. It’s a date officially known as Scouting Anniversary Day. But this is more than an excuse to eat an extra s’more and commemorate another year of Scouting adventures. It’s also when packs, troops,...
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