SCOUTING IS A CODE OF LIVING
For more than 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Today, these values are just as relevant in helping youth grow to their full potential as they were in 1910. Scouting helps youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills, and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives.
The Boy Scouts of America provide youth with programs and activities that allow them to try new things, provide service to others, build self-confidence, and reinforce ethical standards.
While various activities and youth groups teach basic skills and promote teamwork, Scouting goes beyond that and encourages youth to achieve a deeper appreciation for service to others in their community.
Scouting provides youth with a sense that they are important as individuals. It is communicated to them that those in the Scouting family care about what happens to them, regardless of whether a game is won or lost.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Scouting promotes activities that lead to personal responsibility and high self-esteem. As a result, when hard decisions have to be made, peer pressure can be resisted and the right choices can be made.
SCOUTING IS:
EDUCATION FOR LIFE: Scouting complements the school and the family, filling needs not met by either. Scouting develops self-knowledge, the need to explore, to discover, to want to know. Scouts discover the world beyond the classroom, tapping the skills of others to learn, and passing that knowledge on to others.
OPEN TO ALL: Scouting is open to all, regardless of race or creed, in accordance with the purpose, principles & method conceived by its founder Robert Baden-Powell.
FUN, WITH A PURPOSE: Through recreation, Scouting achieves its purpose to help young people develop physically, intellectually, socially, and spiritually.
VOLUNTARY: Scouts and leaders must choose to join Scouting.
NON-POLITICAL, NON-GOVERNMENTAL: Scouting does not and must not represent any political party or organization. Nonetheless, Scouts are encouraged to make a constructive contribution to their community, society, and country.
SCOUT OATH
On my honor I will do my best; To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
SCOUT LAW
A Scout is: Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent.
MOTTO
Be prepared.
SCOUT SLOGAN
Do a good turn daily.