11 Year Old

Here is a list of earned Merit Badges for 2015.  The Top 13 are all required. Rank Merit Badge 2015 % of Total 1 First Aid*          80,716 4.01% 2 Swimming**          71,821 3.57% 3 Cooking*          67,691 3.36% 4 Environmental Science****          63,783 3.17% 5 Citizenship in the World* ...

For the first time ever, it’s now possible for a Scout to earn every Eagle-required merit badge using nothing but the new interactive digital merit badge pamphlets. Or, put simply: The future is officially here. As first reported on Scouting Wire, interactive digital merit badge pamphlets are now available for all Eagle-required merit ...

It’s officially 2016, meaning the new Boy Scout rank requirements I’ve been blogging about for months are now official. Where can you find the requirements, when must your Scouts start using them and what are the big changes? You have questions, and we have answers. Let’s do this.  Where can I find ...

First Class Scout requirements include learning to tie a clove hitch and the timber hitch as well as the shear, square, and diagonal lashings (requirements 3a, 3b, 3c, and 3d of the new requirements). Pioneering turns the knowledge of ropes and lashings into practical application. As an EYO Scout leader, ...

As an eleven-year-old (EYO) Scout leader, your Scouts will reach that point where you will send them to their first and second boards of review (BOR) for advancement. The Scout will have completed his requirements for Tenderfoot Scout or Second Class Scout. You will have conducted your Scoutmaster conference, checked ...

One of my more enjoyable duties is to not only write this monthly blog on the eleven-year-old (EYO) Scouting program, but also to answer questions from time to time. Recently an EYO Scout leader asked if the EYO Scout leader could conduct the Scoutmaster conference as an assistant Scoutmaster and ...

Each year in July & September several Scouters hike (or drive) to the top of a peak and signal between peaks using mirrors. You can also signal peaks from the ground (if you know which peaks will have people). While usually reserved for Varsity Scouts, I think this would be ...

Welcome Aboard! Coming into a new role or new organization can be uncomfortable. Over the course of my career, I have experienced a very poor as well as a first-class new-employee orientation, also known as onboarding.  Larger organizations tend to to this better than start-ups and it sure makes a huge ...

Merit badges cover topics like American Business, Woodwork and everything between. As of this writing, there are 136 different merit badges a Boy Scout can earn. A young man who dreams of becoming an Eagle Scout, the highest honor in Boy Scouting, must earn at least 21 merit badges. But how? Today’s Scouting 101 topic: ...

Note: I purchased the book from ScoutStuff (July 16, 2015) and it is awesome!  I can’t wait for the next one to come out.  It is a replacement to the Scoutmaster Handbook and is meant for all Boy Scout Leader leaders.  It goes hand in hand with the new Program ...