Many people believe the Boy Scouts of America, BSA program is blemished due to recent events. However, I think the Boy Scout program is a great thing. This program gave me various life-long experiences and presented different aspects of the world. More importantly, this program shaped my personal experiences by allowing me to understand the benefits of leadership, teamwork, and improve communication.
The BSA is designed to foster leaders, service, teamwork and communication to build stronger communities. I defined these terms in a manner that describes the actions and essence of words. A leader, is someone who can drive other people toward a common goal. Service is defined as a helpful act that contributes to the welfare of others. Teamwork
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Luckily, scouting is designed to overcome this obstacle gradually. As you mature in scouting the expectation is that the older scouts will lead the troop through planning camping trips, meals, and excursions for monthly camping. To help the scouts be a more effective BSA offers a youth leadership course, National Youth Leadership Training, NYLT. Of course, my dad sent me to this very same program. “… The new NYLT integrates the best of modern leadership theory with the traditional strengths of the Scouting experience. Through activities, presentations, challenges, discussions, and audio-visual support, NYLT participants will be engaged in a unified approach to leadership that will give them the skill and confidence to lead well.”() Looking back, I was glad that he did because it prepared me and many others to accomplish the pinnacle of Boy Scouts which is earning your Eagle rank. Scouting challenges all the boys to take a leadership position within a …show more content…
A prime example was when I lead a group of thirty-seven people to complete my Eagle Scout project. For this project, I directed the group to form a seventeen by twenty-three foot pebbled area and three extra-large outdoor dog kennels. To accomplish this task the Boy Scout program taught me how to think critically, to organize blue prints, investigate city ordinances, calculate the yards of materials needed, and evaluate the depth of the anchors to avoid hitting underground gas lines and plumbing by talking to City Public Service. Yes, of course the program also reinforces safety. So again, all scouts must learn to look for signs of heat stroke, dehydration and figure out where the local hospitals are in case of an emergency. In hindsight, I value the importance of safety because I had to really watch the youth to make sure none of them cut off a finger or a limb while working with power tools. In short, the program teaches scouts to value leadership to accomplish
Eagle Scout Custom A cultural custom in the area where I live is for a young man to earn the Eagle Scout Award. There are many reasons why this is a cultural custom. While the young man earns this award, he learns to be a leader, learns to give service, and learns various skills he will use for the rest of his life. A young man is strongly encouraged to earn the Eagle Scout Award and many resources are made available to assist him.
All across America, young men join together in a special organization called the Boy Scouts of America. Scouts from 1st grade to seniors in high school work toward a common goal: growing up into a functional, mature citizen and leader of the United States. I joined this great organization in 2006 as a Wolf Cub Scout and rose through the ranks to get into Boy Scouts in 2010. I didn’t know what to expect from such a widely popular, military-like group. Will I get pushed to my limit? How much can Scouts impact me? Is Cub Scouts like what others say?
I also learned a lot about people, including myself. I learned how to speak in front of large groups, how to campaign for office, and how to effectively lead. Before I attended Boys State, my perspective of 'leading' was barking orders, but now I understand that it is much more than that. Now, my perspective of leadership is that the leader is servant to the followers, representing their beliefs and desires in a constructive manner. I attribute Boys State with transforming me into someone who people can trust and follow with ease.
My father cites the qualities instilled in him as a Scout as some of the most enduring and beneficial to him throughout his life. From an early age, he learned the value of respect, kindness, courage, and responsibility: traits which combine to
“The city was hidden by that awful cloud . . . boiling up, mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall," said Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the modified B-29 bomber that dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The bombings resulted in the death of thousands, including not only Japanese citizens, forces, and military but also American captive soldiers. In the midst of World War II the United States forced Japan to surrender by dropping bombs in the major cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They released the second atomic bomb shortly after, in Nagasaki, Japan.
If there has been one quality that I have retained all my life it would be my drive. I have always been driven to succeed and move forward. From an early age I knew I wanted to achieve two things: travel the world and become a lawyer. My passion for law came from an experience I had at Boy’s State and my dreams of travel came from growing up in a secluded mountain town.
The Boys and Girls Club of America is a non-profit organization that provides youth with after-school resources. The club's membership fees are only five dollars per a year to insure that every child has a right to join the club. The organization's goals are to make sure every child graduates high school and has life skills to become successful. The five programs (Education & Career; Character & Leadership; Health & Life Skills; The Arts; and Sports, Fitness, and Recreation) aim to give the child a core development to become prosperous.
fitness. Every duty that I performed at The Boys and Girls Club of America I
There were plenty of memories in high school. Just making it to high school was a good memory. Most of them were during my freshman, sophomore, and junior years.
The Boys and Girls Club (BGC) is a national non-profit organization that provides youth with the tools and skills they need to become healthy adults, responsible citizens, and effective leaders. The BGC was founded in 1860 by three women, Elizabeth Hamersley and sisters Mary and Alice Goodwin in Hartford, Connecticut. The BGC was initially named the Boys’ Clubs until 1990 they became the Boys and Girls Club. Their headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia. This organization was originally created to provide boys with a positive alternative to roaming the streets.
You probably don’t know this about me, but I used to be an eagle scout. And in order to be an eagle scout, you have to do things like go camping. And over the summer, my troop would like to travel about six hours north of Milwaukee to a place called Camp Lefeber, where we would camp in the wilderness for several days. About ten to twenty other scout troops from around Wisconsin would meet us there, and there were no cabins at the camp grounds. Instead, we slept in tents. My first year at camp, my friend, Matthew, and I had just the minimum age requirement to go: twelve years old. And, being the good friends that we are, we decided to share a tent for the time we were at camp. It’s not weird. We were in the wilderness. We shared for survival.
I am proud to be an Eagle Scout. Since first grade, when I joined Cub Scouts, I have participated in and enjoyed the Scouting program, and I cannot imagine what my life would have been like without it. Though not all of my friends continued through scouting (in fact I am the only member of my Cub scout den who continued through Scouts), I have continuously made new friends and relationships through the scouting program. Scouting has been a defining part of my life, and my life would be drastically different without the Scouting program.
I sit around a table of familiar faces: my fellow scouters, good people I have known for almost twenty years. But the faces are contorted with anger, and their voices are filled with acrimony because of the issue being debated. Should girls be allowed to participate in all programs of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), allowing them to earn the Eagle Scout Award? I feel conflicted as a woman who has been denied entrance to an all-male organization, but my greatest concern is whether this will be the final blow to the integrity of a great American institution. Research about the origins of this controversy brought me to the story of Sydney Ireland, a girl from New York who has called on the BSA to end their discriminatory ban against girl
Early years play a significant role in the life of any human being. Recently, there has been a lot of discussions about whether kids should spend their early years in school or not. In this essay, the reasons for students spending time in school until the age of eighteen will be discussed.
Leadership is crucial part of today’s army and leaders play a huge role in the accomplishment of the mission. I believe this is true, because leaders are the guys who are in close contact with the younger soldiers. They are the ones who counsel the soldiers and make them better and make a plan for that soldier to improve and become a better soldier. Leaders play a major role in the accomplishment of the mission, because officers and higher leaders cannot be everywhere at once, so they need a person they can trust to lead the charge and tackle the mission the right way