What would America be like if every young boy was enrolled in Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts started in America in 1910, after Lord Baden Powell traveled to England. He was trying to find a business building, and being a foreigner, a young boy could tell that he was clearly lost. The boy asked him where he was going, and after Lord Powell told him, the boy didn’t know either. Powell and the boy were wondering around London trying to find the building, and as soon as they came upon it, Baden Powell was very grateful and offered the boy a handful of money. The boy refused and told him that he was a boy scout, and he did the deed to help out a fellow man, not to earn money. Powell was so impressed about the boy’s actions, that upon returning to
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This single boy changed America for the greater good. In 1912, two years after Boy Scouts came to America, the first Eagle Scout Rank was obtained by Arthur Eldred (usscouts). The requirements back then were nowhere as complex as they are today, but the skills they learned over 100 years ago, are still being taught around the country today. If more boys were involved in Boy Scouts, then the whole country would benefit because the reputation of scouts would change, more boys would be prepared for their adult life, and our country would ideally change the way we act towards our country and each other. I started in the boy scouts when I was five years old. For the first five or six years while I was a cub scout, I was loving live. I knew how to change a car tire, I went on many trips with my den, and I spent a lot of time with my dad, who was our den leader (a den is a group of six to ten cub scouts). …show more content…
First Aid, Personal Management, Cooking, etc.) and 10 merit badges that the scout chooses (i.e. rifle shooting, camping, chess). There are over 100 merit badges that the scout can choose from, with a large variety of concepts. The 10 non-required merit badges are in benefit of the scout so they may do what seems interesting to them, and possibly their first interaction with what they may want to do for the rest of their life. Not only do the scouts learn how to help someone with a broken leg and the best way to transport them to safety (First Aid merit badge) but also, they learn skills that they will use in the rest of their life. For example, if a scout takes the aviation merit badge, they will learn all about airplanes, airflow and even go into and take a tour of a cockpit. This could have been a merit badge that Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, took when he was in the boy scouts, and may have even triggered his interest in becoming an astronaut (usscouts). H. Ross Perot, self-made billionaire and presidential candidate, took the personal management merit badge when involved in the scouts, starting his money saving at a very young age (usscouts). Just over two million boys have reached Eagle in 100 years (15,000 a year, roughly). Currently, around four of every 100 boys that joins Scouts make Eagle--that 's less than one percent of the male
This single boy changed America for the greater good. In 1912, two years after Boy Scouts came to America, the first Eagle Scout Rank was obtained by Arthur Eldred (usscouts). The requirements back then were nowhere as complex as they are today, but the skills they learned over 100 years ago, are still being taught around the country today. If more boys were involved in Boy Scouts, then the whole country would benefit because the reputation of scouts would change, more boys would be prepared for their adult life, and our country would ideally change the way we act towards our country and each other. I started in the boy scouts when I was five years old. For the first five or six years while I was a cub scout, I was loving live. I knew how to change a car tire, I went on many trips with my den, and I spent a lot of time with my dad, who was our den leader (a den is a group of six to ten cub scouts). …show more content…
First Aid, Personal Management, Cooking, etc.) and 10 merit badges that the scout chooses (i.e. rifle shooting, camping, chess). There are over 100 merit badges that the scout can choose from, with a large variety of concepts. The 10 non-required merit badges are in benefit of the scout so they may do what seems interesting to them, and possibly their first interaction with what they may want to do for the rest of their life. Not only do the scouts learn how to help someone with a broken leg and the best way to transport them to safety (First Aid merit badge) but also, they learn skills that they will use in the rest of their life. For example, if a scout takes the aviation merit badge, they will learn all about airplanes, airflow and even go into and take a tour of a cockpit. This could have been a merit badge that Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, took when he was in the boy scouts, and may have even triggered his interest in becoming an astronaut (usscouts). H. Ross Perot, self-made billionaire and presidential candidate, took the personal management merit badge when involved in the scouts, starting his money saving at a very young age (usscouts). Just over two million boys have reached Eagle in 100 years (15,000 a year, roughly). Currently, around four of every 100 boys that joins Scouts make Eagle--that 's less than one percent of the male