Troop 57

What Boy Scouts Do

For 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Today, these values are just as relevant in helping youth grow to their full potential as they were in 1910. Scouting helps youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills, and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives.

The Boy Scouts of America provides youth with programs and activities that allow them to

    * Try new things.
    * Provide service to others.
    * Build self-confidence.
    * Reinforce ethical standards.

While various activities and youth groups teach basic skills and promote teamwork, Scouting goes beyond that and encourages youth to achieve a deeper appreciation for service to others in their community.

Scouting provides youth with a sense that they are important as individuals. It is communicated to them that those in the Scouting family care about what happens to them, regardless of whether a game is won or lost.

Youth Protection

Please read over with your parents the Youth Protection guidelines in the front section of your Boy Scout Handbook. The important point to know is that no adult leader will ever ask you to go with him/her alone. Conferences are always in view of others. On camp-outs, you may not share a tent with an adult. The Scoutmasters and Junior Leaders will not tolerate any harassment, shoving, hitting, or disrespectful treatment of any other person. You are expected to help maintain a safe haven by monitoring your own behavior.

The Uniform

Finally, the Uniform gives Scouts an identity. The Boy Scout Uniform has long served as an expression of a Scout’s friendliness to all other Scouts regardless of who they are or where they’re from. The uniform represents Scouting’s spirit of equality and democracy, and identifies a boy as a brother to every other Scout. Wearing the uniform promotes comradeship, loyalty to one’s Patrol and Troop, and public recognition of membership in the Boy Scouts of America. 57 always wears Class A uniforms when traveling to and from outings.

The Class A or “Field” uniform: The complete uniform includes a BSA tan shirt, with patches, neckerchief & slide, olive BSA pants or shorts, with BSA web belt,

The Class B or “Activity” uniform: consists of the Troop T-shirt. It may be worn with pants or shorts. This is the uniform most frequently worn on outings, to protect the more expensive class A.