The program
What Scouts do
Scouting is learning by doing. Scouts build real skills outdoors, take on real responsibility, and help their community along the way.
Outdoor adventure
The outdoors is Scouting's classroom. Scouts learn to camp, hike, cook, navigate, and take care of themselves and each other, starting with the basics and building toward bigger challenges as they grow.
Scouts also learn to respect the places they explore. The Outdoor Code asks every Scout to be clean in their outdoor manners, careful with fire, considerate in the outdoors, and conservation minded.
Scout-led leadership
A Scout troop is run by its Scouts. Scouts are organized into patrols, small groups that work, learn, and camp together. Each patrol has its own youth leader, and youth leaders across the troop plan the troop's program together.
Adult leaders are coaches and mentors. They keep activities safe and help Scouts succeed, but they let Scouts make the decisions and learn from them. Over time, Scouts who started as the newest members become the ones teaching and leading.
Service
The Scout Slogan is “Do a Good Turn Daily!” Service is part of Scouting at every level, from small everyday kindnesses to projects that improve the community.
Through service, Scouts learn to notice what others need, work as a team to help, and see the difference they can make.
Advancement and the path to Eagle
As Scouts learn and demonstrate new skills, they earn ranks and merit badges. Each Scout advances at their own pace, and the goal is real learning, not a race.
- Scout
- Tenderfoot
- Second Class
- First Class
- Star
- Life
- Eagle Scout
The Eagle Scout journey
Eagle Scout is the highest rank in Scouting. Reaching it takes years of commitment, earning required and elective merit badges, serving in leadership positions, and planning and leading a service project that benefits the community.
Not every Scout becomes an Eagle Scout, and that is fine. Every step along the way builds skills and character that last a lifetime.
See it for yourself
The best way to understand Scouting is to see it in action. Get in touch with the Scoutmaster and we'll help you plan a visit to a Troop 32 meeting.