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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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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.
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