Join ScoutS BSA
Scouts BSA is a dynamic, youth-led program for young people that helps build character, leadership, and confidence through adventure. Scouts explore the outdoors through camping, hiking, paddling, and challenging activities while discovering new interests and skills along the way. With opportunities to earn merit badges across a wide range of topics, Scouts grow by learning to set goals, solve problems, and work together as a team.
As they advance, Scouts take on greater responsibility, give back through meaningful service, and work toward Scouting America’s highest rank, Eagle Scout. Through hands-on experiences and real-world challenges, Scouts develop resilience, integrity, and a lifelong commitment to the values of being helpful, friendly, courteous, and kind.
Things to know about Scouts BSA:
- For youth ages 11-17.
- Scouts imagine, plan, and carry out their own service projects, bringing to life the values of being helpful, friendly, courteous, and kind.
- Scouts BSA Troops are boy-only or girl-only.
- Active troops in all South-Eastern Washington and North-Eastern Oregon counties.
- How do we pick a troop? Are they all the same? – Every Scouts BSA Troop follows the same rules for earning awards and wears the same uniform, but that doesn’t mean they are all identical. Some troops have a history of going to certain camps or other traditions. Leaders are people just like you, do their personalities can and will be different from their colleagues. But they all want what’s best for your son or daughter. Most importantly, if you don’t feel like the troop you first joined is really a fit, that doesn’t mean you have to or should quit Scouting.
- Why is becoming an Eagle Scout such a big deal? – Fewer than 2.6 million people have become Eagle Scouts in American history. That’s roughly only four percent of all the people who have ever started in Scouting. Eagle Scouts have excelled in science, government/law, athletics, business, entertainment, and other area.