Electricity - Merit Badge Clinic

Our next merit badge clinic will be Electricity and will be held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 from 8:00am to Noon at the LDS Stake Center in Show Low, AZ.

Citizenship in the World - Merit Badge Clinic

Thank you to Ken Wilcock for teaching the Citizenship in the World Merit Badge Clinic! Thank you to all the adult leaders and parents for bringing your boys! Thank you to all the boys who attended for your participation. We had 30 boys attend and 27 completed the merit badge today.

Citizenship in the World Merit Badge Clinic

Tomorrow is our Citizenship in the World Merit Badge Clinic at the LDS Stake Center in Show Low, AZ Saturday, February 13, 2010 from 8:00am to Noon. Please wear your Scout Uniform and bring your Scout Handbook. Register today!

Citizenship in the World - Merit Badge Clinic

Only 2 days till our Citizenship in the World Merit Badge Clinic at the LDS Stake Center in Show Low, AZ Saturday, February 13, 2010 from 8:00am to Noon. Please wear your Scout Uniform and bring your Scout Handbook. Register today!

Boy Scouts of America Celebrates 100 Years

Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Boy Scouts of America

The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over four million youth members in its age-related divisions. Since its founding in 1910 as part of the international Scout Movement, more than 110 million Americans have been members of the Boy Scouts of America.

The history of scouting in the US began in 1909 when Chicago publisher W. D. Boyce was visiting London, where he encountered the Unknown Scout and learned of the Scouting movement founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell. Soon after his return to the US, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910. Edgar M. Robinson and Lee F. Hanmer became interested in the nascent BSA movement and convinced Boyce to turn the program over to the YMCA for development in April 1910. Robinson enlisted Seton, Beard, Charles Eastman and other prominent leaders in the early youth movements. In January 1911, Robinson turned the movement over to James E. West who became the first Chief Scout Executive and Scouting began to expand in the United States.

With the organization of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints organized the MIA Scouts a year later and became one of the first sponsoring organizations of scouting in 1913.