Boy Scouts Of Americ The Boy Scout Movement

The Boy Scouts of America is a great program for boys from ages Eleven to Eighteen. Because of the thinking of one man, Robert Baden-Powell, the scouting movement started in the United Kingdom. The first camp that was created was call Brownsea Island located in Poole, Dorset. He created the camp to try to bring together twenty boys from different backgrounds and start what is now the Boy Scout Movement. In the United States, the movement came on February 8th, 1910. That date is know known as the birth date of Boy Scouts and is celebrated every year. After the program was incorporated the whole process started to get into what it is now. There are seven founders of the program in America, one of which is former President Theodore Roosevelt

E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Eddison. The OA was founded on the ideals of brotherhood and cheerful service. The scouts who are elected must have the first class rank and have fifteen nights of camping. Many traditions of the OA have come from local Indian tribes like the Lenne Lenape tribe or the Cherokee tribe. The order of the arrow has sense forth grown into a program for adult leaders, male or female, and also still scouts. With three different types of membership: ordeal (trial), brotherhood, and vigil honor, you learn and grow as you move up. The OA has now over 171,000 members and just celebrated the first century of the Order during the summer of

The camp is meant for the scouts to grow their skills while still having fun. A lot of people just think that scouting is outdoors and camping as American is apple pie and baseball. The summer camp experience can really change a scout’s perspective due to the amount of scouts that want to possibly accomplish the same goals as you. Through out summer camp you can participate in many activities like staff vs. camper dodgeball, frog calls, archery, and many more. The merit badge sessions, or classes as some say, can teach the scouts skills that will live with them for the rest of their lives like cooking, orienteering, fishing, camping, swimming, and much more. Although those are skills that they can also learn outside of scouts, the way that the program has it set up, you learn a lot more than you would of if you just teach your child the