Troop 551 is committed to making Scouting a fun, safe, and inclusive environment that everyone can enjoy with friends and family. We venture out into the wilderness on our monthly camping trips, hold instructional meetings every Tuesday, and participate in transformative community service projects. Scouts are encouraged to model positive behavior outlined in the Scout Oath and Scout Law, learn how to teach others in a meaningful way, and develop beneficial leadership skills. Troop 551 is youth-led (with adult supervision, of course) and teaches important skills that will help both within Scouting and out in the real world.
About Scouting
Scouts BSA is one of the United State's largest youth programs, with more than two million youth participants and about one million adult participants. The idea for Scouts BSA (originally the Boy Scouts of America) came about when a Chicago publisher, W. D. Boyce, wound up lost while visiting London. A local Scout helped Boyce find his way. Boyce offered to tip the boy, but the boy refused. He stated the he was simply doing his good turn of the day. When Boyce came back to America, he gathered other men who were interested in the idea of creating the Boy Scouts of America. Boyce and a few others, including Robert Baden-Powell, quickly began assembling a group of boys. Baden-Powell took the group of 22 boys to Brownsea Island for the first recorded BSA trip. By the end of 1910, over 100,000 boys had signed up for the program. At its peak, the Boy Scouts of America had over four million enrolled youth. Since then, more than 110 million Americans have participated in Scouting at some point in their life.