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There once was an age restriction of sorts, one had to be First Class to work on merit badges and only your next rank could be worked on.

Thanks for stepping up and congratulations on being selected.

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Hope you will return to inform us of your new scouting journey.

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More courteous and kind please. Thanks.

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Bullying is not tolerated. https://www.scouting.org/training/youth-protection/bullying/ Insure scouts are safe (remove from contact with those adults), gather your affected families, documented the instances and concerns and then contact 1. head of your troop's Charter Organization 2. Scout Executive directly at your Council https://www.scouting.org/discover/local-council-locator/ 3. call Scouts First 24hr Helpline 844-726-8871 Stay tuned, more advice coming from other members....

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Imagine a smart, focused, on program, real world experienced business leader leading a youth organization... from wiki Shortly after graduating from New Mexico State University, Acevedo began working for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a rocket scientist, developing programs for the Voyager 2 and analyzing data from the probe. She eventually left NASA to attend graduate school. During her time at Stanford, she worked at IBM as an engineer to help pay for her tuition. After graduating, she joined Apple as a technology executive for the Asia-Pacific region.[6] She has also worked in an executive capacity for Dell and Autodesk. Under her tenure, the Girl Scouts introduced a series of badges in robotics, coding, engineering, and cybersecurity.[ ...Acevedo says the BSA will never compete with the opportunities the Girl Scouts offer and... What I know about Girl Scouts is we have a hundred years of girl expertise. We know how to teach girls important life skills. We know how to create women leaders. When we look at our life results of our alumni, you know, three-fourths of our female senators were Girl Scouts. All three female secretaries of state, Girl Scouts. When I go to Silicon Valley, almost every female tech leader who was born in the US, she was a Girl Scout. Almost every female astronaut that's gone into space is a Girl Scout. So we know what works. Especially right now in the time of American competitiveness, we know that girls are an untapped resource and especially in technology, we need to reach more girls with those skills so that they find that technology is an interesting area, but not just interesting. That they have the skills to make an impact in the technical space. And we find that in particular in terms of defense of America. We have this huge skills gap and it's absolutely paramount that we get more women who have the technical background to excel so that they can help keep America safe in terms of our electrical grid, our voting systems, our financial systems, cybersecurity. It's absolutely crucial and we know that we can do that by getting girls interested in it through Girl Scouts. ... You know, what's so great about Girl Scouts is, I like to say, we're a hundred-plus-year-old organization and we've got one hand rooted firmly in tradition, right? But the other hand is reaching out to the future as well. We teach girls leadership and life skills. And yes, we have a huge emphasis on the outdoors. But we recognize that every girl now has a mobile device in her hands and we want her not just to be a user of that device, but we want her to be the inventor, the creator, the designer, the entrepreneur, the lawyer, the marketer, around that. And so what we've started to do is really give girls those important skills. So as the world is being redesigned around data, they've got the skillset to really be part of creating our future. More text and audio at source link: http://www.businessinsider.com/girl-scouts-ceo-sylvia-acevedo-not-worried-about-co-ed-boy-scouts-2018-6

From Longview (TX) News-Journal: Last fall, the CEO of San Francisco-based Dignity Health received an email out of the blue. It was from a 16-year-old Girl Scout named Shelby O’Neil. With all due respect, she wrote, the company’s “Human Kindness” commercial had a glaring flaw: it depicted the casual use of a disposable plastic straw to blow out a birthday candle. “Did you know that straws are one of the top ocean polluters?” she wrote. “Scientists are predicting by the year 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish if we don’t start making drastic changes with our plastic pollution. I’m urging you to stop using this specific commercial.” Shelby, now 17, lives in San Juan Bautista, California, a small town 14 miles from the beach. Learning about the dangers of plastic pollution in the ocean spurred her to focus her Girl Scout Gold Award project, the organization’s highest honor, on trying to do something about it. Items such as plastic straws, stirrers and cup lids are too small to be recycled and are made to break down more quickly than other plastics, she said. “That may sound good, but unfortunately they get broken down into small micro plastic that can be consumed by animals like fish, and then we end up eating the fish,” she said. Shelby started a nonprofit, Jr Ocean Guardians, to help educate lower-grade level children about plastic and recycling, and has hosted beach clean-ups with schoolchildren. Then she decided to take her campaign to the grown-ups. Not all the letters she wrote got traction. A California-based burger chain told her it had no intention of ceasing to use plastic. But to her surprise, the CEO of Dignity got back to her personally. So did the president and CEO of Farmer Brothers coffee and the sustainability manager at Alaska Airlines. After being in touch with Shelby, all three companies decided to reduce or eliminate the use of the items she objected to. ... Jacqueline Drumheller, sustainability manager for Alaska Airlines, said Shelby’s request echoed waste-reduction goals the company was already working toward. “Between an upswing of people we work with and a groundswell of interest, there were a lot of influencers, and Shelby was certainly one of them,” Drumheller said, adding that the company’s CEO has a soft spot for the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America. “She wrote a really compelling and persuasive letter. . .She was really articulate in her writing and she laid out all the facts. . .And she was persistent. A lot of people are passionate but they don’t follow up with it and try again and try to meet with you.” As of next month Alaska Airlines, which used 22 million plastic stir straws and citrus picks each year, now plans to use stir straws made from white birch and citrus picks made of bamboo. And Farmer Brothers wrote to Shelby saying it would replace plastic stirrers with wooden ones. Wow, one scout's impact! More results of her work at source link: https://www.news-journal.com/a-girl-scout-wrote-to-companies-with-a-heartfelt-request/article_abfbcec2-769d-11e8-934e-5ba0d951c8c8.html

I had not heard of this scholarship award before. From the NESA link, Three regional recipients will receive $500, to be available for their future educational purposes or to attend a national or international Scouting event or facility. (Local council will also receive a $500 award.)One national recipients will receive $2,500 to be available for their future educational purposes or to attend a national or international Scouting event or facility. (Local council will also receive a $2,500 award.) If the potential award is considered too small, then do not apply. Thanks to Glenn and Melinda Adams for their kindness. Glenn Adam is a Distinguished Eagle Scout and past president of NESA.

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Scout Nathan Fain created a $40,000, handicapped-accessible musical playground at the Lafayette Christian School (GA) called the LCS Joyful Noise. His project was rated the best among more than 50,000 service projects completed the previous year by an Eagle candidate and won the 2018 Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. The playground’s name came from a conversation Nathan had while working on the project with his father, Jay Fain, an electrical engineer with Milliken & Company, who mentioned the Bible verse Psalm 98:4: “Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!” The national Eagle Scout project award includes a $2,500 scholarship. Nathan wants to attend Georgia Tech and become a mechanical engineer. More details and video at source link: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/education/article213525074.html

The reality show Green Way Outdoors has a partnership with the Scouts of America, so show hosts Jeffrey Hutchingson and Kyle Green went hunting for alligator Monday and Tuesday at Clements Scout Ranch (Athens, TX) lake where scouts swim. On Monday afternoon, they hauled in a 10-foot gator — the largest ever seen at Clements Scout Ranch. Hiking merit badge anyone? http://www.athensreview.com/news/show-hosts-hunt-for-gators-at-clements-scout-ranch/article_b22635e0-74d5-11e8-b830-0bfb5f2dc927.html

Maybe. It is those family members who passed while I was Scouting whom I wish I spent more time.

This thought has been on my mind lately. I wonder if scouting is like work, in the end one wishes more time was spent with family?

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Castle doctrine invoked.

Update: An adult leader with the Tussahaw Cub Scouts Day Camp, called Henry County police after she heard multiple gunshots near Cornerstone Bible Church on Nail Drive, according to the incident report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, No one was hurts, but the Cub Scouts were “very frightened.” and about half went home. Joan Marie Scott, 53, of McDonough, was allegedly the one shooting behind her property, the report said. She told police she recently received her pistol license and was practice shooting, the report said. The officer spotted 9mm and shotgun shell casings on the ground at her property. The officer measured and said the shell casings were allegedly within 200 yards of another residence, which is in violation of a Henry County ordinance for discharging a firearm, and she was written two citations. Source: https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/cops-woman-shooting-her-yard-frightens-cub-scouts-camping-out-nearby/TvWRVkOe1neVUvSwFkQP5M/

Happy Fathers Day...

Update: the Henry Herald heard from Council “We are glad all of our youth members, staff and volunteers are safe, and we appreciate the Henry County Police Department for their assistance with this matter,” said Kelvin Williams, Scout executive/CEO, of the Flint River Council, Boy Scouts of America.