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The National Capital Area Council (NCAC) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America within the Northeast Region that serves the Washington metropolitan area, including Washington, D.C., portions of Maryland and Virginia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. [1] The council offers extensive training, and administrative support to units. [6]
The Eagle Scout must demonstrate Scout Spirit, an ideal attitude based upon the Scout Oath and Law, service, and leadership. This includes an extensive service project that the Scout plans, organizes, leads, and manages. Eagle Scouts are presented with a medal and a badge that visibly recognizes the accomplishments of the Scout.
This course is an in-depth training program covering a variety of leadership ideas and skills. It is designed to simulate a month in the life of a Scouts BSA troop. It uses fun and hands-on learning sessions to teach leadership skills. The Scouts learn about service-based leadership as they undertake a patrol quest for the meaning of leadership ...
As of March 1, 2013. The US Virgin Islands Council was merged into the National Capital Area Council. [1] [2]The local Scouts are active in the community. [3] [4] [5]The US Virgin Islands Open/Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament helps to fund the Marine Vocational Program (MVP) for the Boy Scouts of America.
In March 2020, further research showed that the Eagle Scout court of honor for Hamilton Bradley of the Rome Council, was held on December 19, 1919, in Rome, New York. This makes Bradley the earliest known black Eagle Scout. [366] Dr. Frank "Tick" Coleman, who earned his Eagle in 1926 is one of the first four known African-American Eagle Scouts ...
Very often, the Eagle Project is what highlights the full impact of the Scouting program to the community at-large. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 2012, the National Eagle Scout Association researched the number of volunteer hours spent on Eagle Projects and it came a total of more than 100 million hours of service.
National Youth Leadership Training, often called NYLT, is the current youth leadership development training offered by the Boy Scouts of America. The program is conducted at the council level over six days for Scouts, Venturers, and Sea Scouts. The program has been open to all genders since 2010.
Heritage Girl Scout Council and Tidewater Girl Scout Council merged to become the Girl Scout Council of the Colonial Coast. Camp Outback is a designated site on the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail, with an 8.5 acre nature area, and is located behind A Place for Girls, the council's headquarters and program center in Chesapeake, Virginia.