Troop 21 Welcomes Your Family to Boy Scouts!You’re joining one of the greatest youth activites in America! Boy Scouts is a great organization which helps you learn both about the outdoors and yourself. Through Boy Scouts you'll be able to go on campouts, canoe trips, cross-country skiing, and even sailing all the while learning more about what to do in emergency situations, how to survive in the wilderness, cook your own food, repel off of a climbing wall, and much more.Many people think scouting is about camping, tying knots and marching in parades. Actually, scouting is really about developing leadership skills, building character and self-discipline, encouraging prudent risk-taking, balancing teamwork with independence, and promoting citizenship and community service…while having fun. Scouting is fun! Who doesn't like camping out underneath the stars or canoeing across a lake? There are so many possibilities in Boy Scouts. Whatever you can think of doing, Boy Scouts has it covered. There are well over 100 merit badges which you can earn by doing nearly anything (Learning about Computers, Going Skiing, Playing Sports, working out, etc.) For almost whatever you enjoy there's a merit badge for it. Earning Merit Badges is only one part of Scouting. A scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent. That is the Scout Law. Each scout embodies the scout law, it is what we strive to live by so that we may be good citizens and help our communities, our County, Our State, Our Nation, and Our World. To be a good Scout you must try to live by the Scout Law as well as the Scout Oath: On my honor I will do my best To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. The Scout Oath, being our promise to do our best not only for everyone else, but for ourselves, we do that by making smart choices (eating healthy, helping others, knowing what's wrong and right). Scouts are leaders, both in Scouts and outside of Scouts. We scouts in Troop 21 plan our meetings and we run them. The adults are there to keep focus and provide a safe environment as well as to give us a guiding hand. But it is still the scouts that shape and determine the focus of the Campouts and the Meetings. Scouting creates leaders and that shows after you get out of Scouts. Some of the more recognized scouts are John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford, Neil Armstrong, Bill Clinton, Walter Cronkite, and the list goes on and on. |
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Download more information about Boy Scouts and Troop 21The file above has been compressed for file space. You can uncompress it via programs such as WinZip or WinRarIf you would like to contact the Current Scoutmaster, Mr. Brian Thompson, you can reach him at kthomson@thomsontopiaries.com | |
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