Boy Scouts of America

Scouting in Schools

Scouting, Schools, and Educators

The Boy Scouts of America has a long history of aligning with schools and educators through its character-based programs that help prepare today’s youth to be tomorrow’s leaders. Through hands-on activities and learning experiences, Scouting helps guide young people on the trail to a lifelong appreciation for self-improvement, community involvement, and the outdoors. Sharing the same goals makes Scouting, schools, and educators the ideal team.

Scouting Gets Scientific

Scouting’s advancement programs allow Scouts to explore science in many ways. Scouting takes young people outdoors and gives them hands-on time with science. Chemistry, astronomy, map and compass, ecology, environmental science, geology, aviation, and insect study are only a few topics of exploration.

Scouting Goes Viral With Technology

Scouting activities expose youth to technology galore. From archery, computers, forestry, and robotics to architecture, composite materials, and photography, Scouts have a clear advantage with exposure to stimulating experiences. Our programs give them opportunities to interact with adult mentors and subject experts like zookeepers and rocket scientists, to participate in hands-on activities like building robots and model rockets, and to take day trips to places like quarries and observatories.

Scouting Builds Excitement Through Engineering

Scouting has always used the outdoors as its learning environment. Construction of bridges, towers, and simple camp gadgets have helped thousands of youth begin to understand engineering. Drafting, electronics, engineering, and welding are all part of what Scouting can do to help young people grow, develop lifelong interests, and pursue meaningful careers.

Scouting and Mathematics = Fun

Math skills—algebra, geometry, statistics, and basic mathematics—are a part of nearly everything we do. Scouting brings math to life with activities like geocaching, chess, canoeing, and aviation. By participating in fun, stimulating activities, young people learn how math applies to everyday living and the world around them.

Scouting and Literacy Go Hand in Hand

Scouting understands that reading gives young people the opportunity to strengthen their literacy and comprehension skills. From the Cub Scout handbooks to the Scouts BSA Handbook, Venturing manuals, and Scout Life magazine, our youth publications are created and produced specifically with youth members in mind. They are contemporary, engaging, and reflective.

Scouting Develops Character

Scouting helps young people grow and develop leadership skills. For example, Cub Scouts learn how to follow instructions and directions with projects they do with their den and pack. Scouts BSA members learn how to apply Scouting’s Leading EDGE—Explain, Demonstrate, Guide, Enable—as they mentor younger Scouts and teach them new skills. They also take on leadership roles within their patrol and troop. Venturers have similar opportunities in their crews and through their Venturing officers’ association, and debate ethical standards through ethics forums.

Scouting Grows Model Citizens

Citizenship has always been a major part of Scouting. The tenets of the Scout Oath and the Scout Law have guided Scouts to enrich themselves, to think of others, and to make the world a better place. In so doing, young people learn more about their community, nation, and the world.

Scouting Promotes Fitness

Being “physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight” leads to a well-balanced individual, which is why Scouting emphasizes overall fitness. Through Scouting’s outdoor activities, mentoring with adults, and learning how to be a good leader, young people learn how to be better prepared for growing up, taking on challenges, and being responsible—all while having loads of fun.

Bray Barnes

Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies

Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments

David Alexander

Managing Member Calje

David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.

Glenn Adams

President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.

Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.