Welcome! Whether you have just crossed over with your child from Cub Scouts or are brand new to Scouting, we appreciate your enthusiasm and encourage your participation in the troop. The three aims of Scouting America are Leadership and character development, citizenship training, and mental and physical fitness. To accomplish these aims, Scouting employs eight methods: ideals, the patrol method, the outdoors, advancement, association with adults, personal growth, leadership development, and uniform.
We encourage you to take the Scouting America training offered online and by the Council to discover what we are trying to accomplish and how you can help. One of the major differences between Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA is leadership development. To teach leadership, you have to let the scouts lead. One of the more vigorous debates in Scouting is over the feasibility of a scout-led troop. Some adult leaders claim a scout-led troop isn't feasible in their troop due to the scouts being too young, lazy, irresponsible, or uninterested.
A scout-led troop is more work for the adult leadership, and therein lies the challenge and our need for your cooperation and help. It is much easier for the adults to take charge of themselves than to teach the necessary leadership skills to the scouts.