BSA Innovation Challenge
Do you have an inventor, a builder, a creator, or a dreamer at home? Check this out!
The BSA has teamed with Edison Nation®, an idea-to-shelf product developer, to create the Boy Scouts of America Innovation Challenge, where today’s kids can develop tomorrow’s products. Whether the invention solves a problem around the house, the yard, or at school; helps you take better care of your pet; or creates a new way to learn or play, the goal of the BSA and Edison Nation is to inspire young minds to submit their creative, new product ideas.
Edison Nation will invest up to $1 million to develop the selected ideas and help bring them to market. Selected inventors will receive a cash advance, royalties for life from the sale of their products, be named the “inventor” on any issued patents, and have an opportunity to appear on the award-winning Everyday Edisons television series. The challenge is open to all boys and girls ages 7 to 21, and does not require that the young person be associated with the BSA to submit ideas or be selected as an “inventor.”
For more information, read the complete BSA news release and head over to Edison Nation's website to submit your idea. Hurry. The program ends May 7th 2012!
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Boys’ Life 2011 Reading Contest – Last Chance!
From Boys' Life website:
Write a one-page report titled “The Best Book I Read This Year” and enter it in the Boys’ Life 2011 “Say Yes to Reading!” contest.
The book can be fiction or nonfiction. But the report has to be in your own words — 500 words tops. Enter in one of these three age categories:
8 years old and younger
9 and 10 years old
11 years old and older
First-place winners in each age category will receive a $100 gift certificate good for any product in the Boy Scouts official retail catalog. Second-place winners will receive a $75 gift certificate, and third-place winners a $50 certificate.
Everyone who enters will get a free patch like the one on this page. (And, yes, the patch is a temporary insignia, so it can be worn on the Boy Scout uniform shirt, on the right pocket. Proudly display it there or anywhere!) In coming years, you’ll have the opportunity to earn different patches.
The contest is open to all Boys’ Life readers. Be sure to include your name, address, age and grade in school on the entry.
Send your report, along with a business-size, self-addressed, stamped envelope, to:
Boys’ Life Reading Contest
S306
P.O. Box 152079
Irving, TX 75015-2079
Entries must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2011 and must include entry information and a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Click here to read the winning essays in the 2010 contest.
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SCOUTStrong PALA Challenge
Today, BSA launches the new SCOUTStrong Program to get youth more active and fit. SCOUTStrong was kicked off by announcing a collaboration with the President’s Challenge, the premier program of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN), resulting in a Scout-specific Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) challenge.
This challenge is open to everyone associated with BSA, including Scouts, parents, volunteers, and alumni. To earn the SCOUTStrong PALA Challenge Award, you are required to meet a daily activity goal of 30 minutes a day for adults and 60 minutes a day for kids under 18 for at least five days a week, for six out of eight weeks. Stick with the program and you’ll earn an award in less than two months!
After successfully completing the challenge, send a request to the Awards Chairs for the joint BSA/PALA SCOUTStrong PALA Challenge award patch. Find out more and sign up for the challenge here.
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The New NOVA Award from BSA
Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics...Known as "STEM", the BSA is developing an exciting new program around these areas with new awards called NOVA and SUPERNOVA. Stay tuned for more information on this new program in the coming months!
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BSA Racing
Did you watch Indy 500 the past weekend? From qualifying at the last minute a week ago, to advancing 11 spots to finishing 19th at the race, there were many intense moments for the BSA Motorsports team. However, nothing compares to the dramatic finish at the last half lap. Check out this video if you haven't yet.
If this is the kind of excitement you enjoy, here's a chance to experience it, on location, real time. Once again, BSA's #19 car will be coming to Northern California for Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma. Scouts and leaders in Class A uniform will be admitted free. Discounted tickets ($20, normally $55) are also available to friends and family. 50% of each ticket sold will be donated to Scouting. More information available here.
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BSA Summer Reading Program
Ask for a punch card at any scout shop, purchase (and read) five books, chosen from titles listed on the official Summer Reading Series Book List, and you'll receive a $5 Scout Shop Gift Card. It's that simple.
The book list includes some pretty cool titles like "Let's Go Hiking," "Nature Detectives," and "The Scouter’s Companion," etc just to name a few. Find out more about this program here.
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Lionel 2011 BSA Ready-to-Run Train Set
For the train collectors ...
Lionel introduces the 2011 BSA Ready-to-Run Train Set. The set will be similar to the 2010 100th Anniversary set except the 100th Anniversary boxcar will be replaced with the BSA Boy Scout Oath boxcar. In addition, the 100th anniversary collector patch will be replaced with a BSA/Lionel collector patch with the new BSA signature tagline, Prepared. For Life.
Also, this summer, Lionel will be adding the BSA Eagle Scout Boxcar, BSA Flatcar with Pinewood Derby Kit, and for the first time, figure pack accessories.
The entire train is approximately 58" long with layout dimensions of 40" x 60". For more information on the model and vendors, please visit Lionel's website.
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