Our work
Supporting the Methods of Scouting
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
Ld Robert Baden-Powell
The Methods of Scouting are both the ingredients and the cooking instructions. Follow the recipe and the outcome is virtually assured.
Ideals of Scouting
The Scout Oath, Law, Motto, and Slogan are the metrics against which every youth’s conduct and priorities are measured while participating in the program. Spending their formative years measuring their own character against these ideals results in a lifetime of looking inward rather than relying on an outsider’s appraisal.
Uniform of Scouting
Symbolizing equality and organization, the Scout uniform is the most recognizable outward feature of the movement. It should never be a barrier to engaging in the program. It serves as a living document on which a Scout’s journey is recorded and a source of well-earned pride.
Patrol Method
Youth learn to identify and manage small group dynamics, facilitate small-scale democracy, and experience camaraderie through the Patrol Method. What begins as a group of 11-year-old boys who might not even know each other’s names becomes galvanized into a brotherhood that’s seen each member at their worst and their best over the course of their teen years.
Leadership Development
America’s youth get flashes of leadership opportunity in a team captaincy or their class presidency, but there is no extracurricular in our country that provides the sheer volume of leadership opportunities quite like Scouting. Innumerable opportunities to “fail safe” and try again the next weekend are why Eagle Scouts are valued recruits when they enter our colleges, our military, and our community at large.
Outdoor Program
Boys gravitate toward adventure and physical challenge, unknowingly entering a “leadership laboratory” that produces faster results when the subjects are hiking through mud, cooking meals for their patrol, sleeping in the cold, and resolving conflicts after an exhausting few days. We will help outfit that laboratory so that every youth, regardless of income, is able to benefit from the outdoor program.
Advancement Program
Advancement in Scouting is about the journey, not the destination. Traits such as goal-setting, personal initiative, and self-guided learning are foundational to the character growth that occurs during one’s journey through Scouting. Our Association supports the pursuit of those traits in Lexington’s youth.
Personal Growth
Personal fitness, a spirit of altruism, and psychological resilience are natural products of participating in Scouting’s outdoor, community service, and youth leadership programs. Our communities benefit from this type of growth in our youth, therefore our Association will support it.
Adult Association
Scouting does not function without committed, quality adult role models and industrious adult volunteers. Every member of our Association was profoundly influenced by such individuals and we will work to support the Troop’s efforts to recruit, train, and retain such individuals.