Our Scouting Programs benefit boys and girls from 5 years to 20 years of age.  Below are descriptions and links to the various ways we positively influence kids in our community.

Tiger Cubs

Tiger Cubs is a program for first grade boys and their adult partners that stresses shared leadership, learning about the community and family understanding. Each boy-adult team meets for family activities and twice a month all the teams meet for Tiger Cub den activities.

 

Cub Scouts

Cub Scouting is a family- and home-centered program for boys in the second through fifth grades. Fourth and fifth graders are called Webelos Scouts and participate in more advanced activities that begin to prepare them to become Boy Scouts. Cub Scouting's emphasis is on quality program at the local level where boys and families are involved in weekly den meetings and monthly pack meetings.

    Cub Scouting has the following purposes:

  • Positively influence a boy's character development and spiritual growth.

  • Develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship.

  • Encourage good sportsmanship and pride in growing strong in mind and body.

  • Improve understanding within the family.

  • Strengthen a boy's ability to get along with others.

  • Foster a sense of personal achievement by developing new interests and skills.

  • Provide fun and exciting new things to do.

  • Show a boy how to be helpful and do his best.

  • Prepare him to be a Boy Scout.

Check out our National Cub Scout website for more information and fun

www.joincubscouting.org

 

Boy Scouts

Boy Scouting is a program for boys aged 11 through 17 designed to achieve the aims of Scouting through an extensive outdoor program and peer group leadership with the counsel of an adult Scoutmaster.

Everything Scouts do is designed to be fun and to teach the values of Scouting. Specifically, the BSA endeavors to develop American citizens who:

  • are physically, mentally, and emotionally fit;
  • have a high degree of self-reliance as evidenced in such qualities as initiative, courage, and resourcefulness;
  • have personal values based on religious concepts;
  • have the desire and skills to help others;
  • understand the principles of the American social, economic, and governmental systems;
  • are knowledgeable about and take pride in their American heritage and understand our nation's role in the world;
  • have a keen respect for the basic rights of all people;
  • are prepared to participate in and give leadership to American society.

Take a closer look at:www.thescoutzone.org

Varsity Scouts

 

Varsity Scouting is an active, exciting program for young men aged 14 through 17 built around five program fields of emphasis: advancement, high adventure, personal development, service and special programs and events.

Venturing

This program for young men and women age 14 through 20 is designed to provide positive experiences through exciting and meaningful activities that help youth pursue their own special vocational or recreational interests. It provides opportunities for them to mature and become responsible, caring adults. Venturing crews specialize in a variety of interests, everything from equestrian training to rock climbing, law to engineering, political science to theater.  What a Venturing crew does is limited only by the imagination and involvement of the adult and youth members.

More info at: www.scouting.org/venturing

 

Learning For Life & Exploring

Learning For Life provides a theme-based active learning experience to assist teachers and enhance the core curriculum in local schools for young people in grades K through 12. 

Exploring is based on a unique and dynamic relationship between youth (ages 14-20) and the organizations in their communities. Local community organizations initiate a specific Explorer post by matching their people and program resources to the interests of young people in the community. The result is a program of activities that helps youth pursue their special interests, grow, and develop.

Learn more at: www.learning-for-life.org

 

Special Needs

This division of the council is designed to provide specialized Scouting programs for children with physical and mental challenges.  The division services both in-school and traditional Scouting programs and provides support for inclusion of Special Needs youngsters in traditional Scouting units throughout the council.

Check out: www.gtcbsa.org/division9

Pathfinder

Pathfinder is charged with serving young people at risk with Scouting’s values-based programs. It features a district executive and a staff of six “Neighborhood Counselors” who provide program and resources to children and their families at each Pathfinder unit site. What began as a concept and an idea built from the ground up has become a viable alternative to the gangs, violence and lessons of the streets for thousands of kids since the program’s inception.

For more info: www.gtcbsa.org/pathfinder

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