Pathway to Adventure Council, Scouting America delivers the nation’s leading youth program for character development and values-based leadership training, serving more than 13,600 youth from kindergarten through high school across Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana, spanning 1,600 square miles. Over 5,100 adult volunteers deliver Scouting’s impactful programs to help young people be “Prepared. For Life.®” Last year, local Scouts and adult volunteers provided 114,023 hours of community service valued at $3,514,000.
Our programs include Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, Venturing, Exploring, Sea Scouts, Restoring the Village, STEM in Scouting, and Soccer in Scouting.
Scout Oath
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
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Scout Executive & CEO
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Eagle Scouts
To instill in young people lifetime values and develop in them leadership skills and ethical character as expressed in the Scout Oath and Law.
