The purpose of the Boy Scouts of America, incorporated on February 8, 1910, and chartered by Congress in 1916, is to provide an educational program for boys and young adults to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop personal fitness.

	Tiger Cubs is a school-year program for first grade (or 7 year-old) boys and their adult partners that stresses simplicity, shared leadership, learning about the community, and family understanding.  Each boy/adult team meets for family activities, then once or twice a month all the teams meet for Tiger Cub den activities.
	Cub Scouting is a family- and home-centered program for Boys in the second through fifth grades (or 8, 9, and 10 years old).  Cub Scouting's emphasis is on quality program at the local level, where the most boys and families are involved.  Fourth- and fifth-grade (or 10-year-old) boys are called WEBELOS (WE'll BE LOyal Scouts) and participated in more advanced activities that begin to prepare them to become Boy Scouts.
	Boy Scouts is a program for boys 11 through 17, designed to achieve the aims of Scouting through a vigorous outdoor program and peer group leadership with the counsel of an adult Scoutmaster.  (Boys also may become Boy Scouts if they have earned the Arrow Of Light Award or have completed the fifth grade).
	Venturing is a new program of the Boy Scouts of America for young men and women who are 14 ( and have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years of age.

Any youth member who does not have access to taking part in a local Scouting unit may still do the Scouting program through the Lone Scout Program of the BSA.  To do so they must register with a Lone Scout counselor to lead them through the program.