Cooking

Easy Eats: Cold Comfort

Crank out your own sumptuous brands of homemade ice cream, guaranteed to stir up the whole troop’s taste buds.

Leaders

Creative Money-Earning Projects

Packs, troops, and crews are using effective, and often innovative, techniques to fund their annual program activities.

Uncategorized

How to encourage leaders to attend and complete training

Scouter E.K. is frustrated because too many Scout volunteers skip basic leader training. How, she asks, can more adults be encouraged to attend training courses that will make them more effective Scout leaders?

Camping

Knots to Know

Knots and Boy Scouts go together like campfires and cobbler. Here’s how to tie three of the knots required to reach First Class, plus four more that can be very useful.

Cub Scout Leader Training

There's Always Something New To Learn

Adults who complete Scouting’s volunteer training courses have more confidence in their leadership roles and stay in the program longer.

Leaders

Keeping a Scouting Connection

Young men who turn 18 and go away to college or enter the job market can still be involved in Scouting by volunteering in a troop, district, or council.

Advancement & Awards

What It Means to Be an Eagle Scout

A new book explores the impact of men who have earned Scouting’s highest rank from World War II to the present and beyond.

Emergency Preparedness

Staying Alive in Avalanche Country

Scouts in Northern Nevada learn the basics of avalanche safety while skiing some of Tahoe’s steepest slopes.

Advancement & Awards

Advice from an Eagle Scout mom

How can parents best motivate their sons to continue on the Trail to Eagle? A mother of three Eagle Scouts suggests a one-step-at-a-time approach.