RESOURCE LINKS FOR SCOUTS AND SCOUTERS

Boy Scout and Venturing Resources

• Eagle Rank Advancement Resources
• Planning your Eagle Court of Honor
• Eagle Scholarship Information
• Eagle Service Project Award Information
• How to join NESA (National Eagle Scout Association)
• NEW! Enviromental Science Merit Badge completion materials from Beaver Water District Education Program (Awesome stuff)
• Where to Go Camping Guide - Created by our OA!
• Pioneering Project Resources
• Merit Badge Counselor Application
• Merit Badge Counselor Training Document
• Guide to Planning a Trek

Cub Scout Resources

• Join Cub Scouting National Site

General Resources

• BSA FORMS (link to National website)
• Health and Medical Form
• Tour Permit interactive PDF and Instructional PDF
• BSA Forms from National
• NEW! Working With Scouts with Special Needs and disAblitities
• Leader Service Knot Award information
• National BSA web links  
  WOW!  There are some cool ones! Take a look!
• BSA National Form Index link
• Westark Area Council web site
• "Unofficial" Scouting web site links
• Training On-Line Course Links  (now located on Training page)
• Maps
• Guide to Safe Scouting
• General Press Release Writing Instructions with Email Addresses to Newspapers (NEW 1-09)
• Lost Bridge Hiking Trail Patch information
• Scout Sunday -- Ideas for your church

New Electronic Health and Medical Forms

These new forms replace all old medical forms - class 1, 2 and 3. There is only one "type" now. This information and history parts of this form can be completed on your computer and then taken to a physician for the rest to be completed.

Working with Scouts with Special Needs and disAbilites

Understand how to work with scouts in your unit with special needs or disabilities.

PowerPoint Show

Compiled by Mark Puente 1/6/11
mapuent@wal-mart.com

Leader 
Service Knot Information

You've Earned Them!  Here is how you get them! Be sure to take the links within the document to get to the "pocket" forms on-line!
CLICK HERE

Questions?  
Contact Joyce Butler Joyce.Butler2@va.gov

National Council
BSA Web Site

National Site of Boy Scouts of America - THE source for official information

http://www.scouting.org/

Additional Official BSA sites, including Boy's Life, High Adventure sites, Fieldbook Companion site  More...

Take this link to a list of and links to many more Official BSA sites including Boy's Life, High Adventure sites, Fieldbook Companion site and more

Westark Area Council official site
Take this link to an extensive Forms Index that includes Tour Permits, Health Forms and much more.

http://www.westarkbsa.org - the home page

Unofficial Scouting Web Site Links

Top Links for Scouters 

http://www.usscouts.org/ Start your online Scouting Adventure with the U.S. Scouting Service Project, the Scouting Web Portal!
http://macscouter.com/ a wealth of  information - one of the best sites ever!
http://www.scoutingthenet.com/ A Portal For The Scouting Community
http://www.insanescouter.com/ Resource site that covers  many topics
http://www.pinetreeweb.com/ Great stuff on Baden-Powell, the history of Scouting and more
http://www.three-peaks.net/scout04.htm Index of links to many topics.
http://www.inquiry.net/ Cool outdoor games for boys from the founders of Scouting - good stuff!

PLUS the Mother-of-All Scouting Web Resources document

The "Mega-List"

A HUGE list of Scouting-related web resources in PDF format that you can print and share or open and link from. Note: this document was compiled for Pow-Wow in 2003, links may not all work.

Maps

Maps to Destinations Commonly used for Training and Events

Springdale Scout Service Center

Central United Methodist Church - Rogers  (Roundtable location)

First Christian Church - Rogers

Camp Orr (How to get there)

Camp Orr (Camp map)

Rogers Scout Reservation (RSR)

Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy

Rogers Scout Hutch

Westark Council Office (Hembree Center)

The Pines

First Christian Church - Bentonville

Central United Methodist Church - Fayetteville

Use these informative, local resources to complete the Environmental Science merit badge!

This information was relayed at the March 2011 Roundtable and is awesome stuff for teaching AND completing the Enviro Sci merit badge.

1)  BWD Ed/Environmental Science PowerPoint

2)  The BWD Ed/Environmental Science Merit Badge Worksheet

Guide to planning a high adventure trek

This guide will assist you in planning and implementing your next trek.  It also includes a helpful gear list.

Planning a Trek

Eagle Advancement
Resources

Eagle Rank Advancement Resources

FORMS:

• Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook
  This is an editable PDF form. Save it on to your computer and then complete. .
• Eagle Rank Application
  This is a link to the form in PDF format on the NESA (National Eagle Scout Association) website. This is an EDITABLE PDF form that MUST be completed by using a computer. YOU MUST FIRST SAVE IT TO YOUR COMPUTER, THEN COMPLETE.
• Eagle Scout Reference Form and Letter (Click to download)
  This document contains an explanitory letter regarding submission of Eagle Scout References, along with the actual Eagle Scout Reference Form that is to be given to individuals serving as the scout's reference

PRESS RELEASE NOTE:
Upon completion of your Board of Review and Eagle Court of Honor, please create a press release along with a head and sholders portrait and submit it to your local newspapers. Download the Eagle Press Release Information for writing instructions and email addresses to which to send them HERE

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has offered a specific form that also includes a "snail" mail address. Download that form HERE

PLANNING YOUR COURT OF HONOR:
Notes from Roundtable presentation by Trish Love.

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION:
- NESA Scholarship link
- The National Eagle Scout Merit and Academic Scholarship application information
Veterans of Foreign Wars Scholarship Information -- APPLY!!

EARN RECOGNITION FOR YOUR PROJECT:
EAGLE SCOUT SERVICE PROJECT AWARD

JOIN UP WITH OTHER EAGLES!
JOIN NESA (National Eagle Scout Association)

Lost Bridge 
Hiking Trail

Lost Bridge Trail patch
Hike the Lost Bridge Trail, complete the worksheet and qualify for a patch.

Worksheet
MAP