Scouting Around

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Noah Cahoon, a 14-year-old Eagle Scout from American Fork, Utah, was recently a guest on the ABC show Shark Tank, where ambitious entrepreneurs pitch ideas to some hungry — and sometimes unpleasant — businessmen. And he did just fine.

Gavin Burseth, a 16-year-old Boy Scout from Illinois, recently brought in 38 goats to remove invasive species from the Blackwell Forest Preserve Family Campground.

In between finishing out the school year last spring and starting another one this fall, the Eagle Scouts of Troop 165 in Fredericksburg, Va., had a busy summer. As in, cycling-3,800-miles-across-the-country busy.

Jackson Hobbs was vacationing in Alaska to celebrate earning his Eagle Scout when he won a $10,000 fishing competition.

For his Eagle Scout project, Nebraska Scout Doug Pepper gave back to the hospital that saved his life two years earlier.

Camp Eagle, a Mid-America Council Boy Scout camp located near Cedar Bluffs., Neb., got a new statue earlier this summer to mark its entrance.

A neat service project from the Circle Ten Council designed to encourage recycling has resulted in a neat time-lapse video.

The good folks over at Adweek are asking readers to vote for their favorite magazine. For us, the choice is obvious.

The Boy Scouts of America is in the process of making its merit badge pamphlets available for purchase on Amazon's Kindle platform.

Maybe the best part of the upcoming 23rd World Scout Jamboree is just getting the opportunity to meet and hang out with Scouts from around the world.

A couple of Maryland Boy Scouts used their Eagle projects to restore a local hiking trail.

For Michigan Boy Scout Geno Chandler, installing a sundial made for the perfect modern-day Eagle project.

A Boy Scout from Fort Worth, Texas, filmed his trip to Philmont, and the resulting video is terrific.

A Massachusetts Boy Scout took up the task of sprucing up a hospital courtyard.

When Jody Beringer completed his Eagle Scout project in 1990, he probably never thought that, 23 years later, his own daughter would be one of the beneficiaries.

A Michigan Scout recently installed 333 trees and one flagpole at a nearby airport.

For the last eight years, a Boy Scout in Granite Quarry, North Carolina, has led the town hall meetings in the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance.

An Ohio Boy Scout installed a new sidewalk to make playground equipment more accessible to kids in wheelchairs.

A high school competitive swimmer credits Scouting for his success.

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A Pennsylvania Eagle Scout candidate has tackled a pair of projects at a nearby hiking and biking trail.

We love most of what we've seen at the Outoor Retailer show, but we especially love the companies with good stories behind them.

The BSA hosted a pinewood derby event at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, Utah, last night, and the results were impressive.

There are lots of products of interest to Scouts at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Scouts of Troop 101 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, recently earned their 50-miler awards by hiking one of the most famous trails in the country: The Appalachian Trail.

A South Dakota Eagle Scout has sold $25,000 worth of popcorn over the last 12 years. That's some serious salesmanship.

Tim Klotz's Eagle Scout project was a memorial dedicated to a local resident who fought in Vietnam and competed in the Olympics.

Garrett Becker, from Waukesha, Wisconsin, overcame cerebral palsy, epilepsy and blindness to earn the rank of Eagle Scout.

The Eagle Scouts Cycling Across America have made it past the halfway point. What an amazing summer vacation these guys have had.

A Georgia Boy Scout troop has adopted a Cub Scout pack in Guatemala, helping them with their pinewood derby, blue-and-gold banquet, and other functions.

Alex Hansen, an Eagle Scout from the Buffalo, New York, area, recently coordinated a project that hauled 180 pounds of trash from a local creek.

A Boy Scout has made his community safer by overseeing the installation of 16 street signs to better mark the roads for volunteer firefighters.

When a campground at a nearby state park was destroyed by fire, Troop 730 from Newbury Park, California, stepped up to help.