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9:00AM-4:30PM: Combining Your Eagle and DCSA Projects

Alumni Adventure Complex inside the NESA Exhibit.

Scouts, Venturers, and Sea Scouts, are you interested in conservation? Did you know that the Distinguished Conservation Service Award (DCSA) is the highest conservation award in Scouting and is one of the rarest recognitions? Did you also know that one of your DCSA projects could also be used to fulfill the Eagle Scout Project requirement? …

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9:30AM-10:30AM: Facilitating Meaningful Experiences: (Open to all)

Tillerson 108

This session offers a deeper dive into topics including building effective teams, navigating complicated interpersonal dynamics, experience delivery, and more. Open to all, participants will enjoy learning through experience and discussion. Open to all. Thursday 7/20, 9:30a, Tillerson 108.

10:00AM: Free Money: A Boy Scouts of America Guide to Effectively Completing Scholarship Applications

Alumni Adventure Complex inside the NESA Exhibit.

During this session, attendees will get an overview of the National Eagle Scout Association and its annual scholarship program. The session will also provide tips and best practices for applying for these scholarships as well as for writing scholarship essays as well. Lastly, the session will provide an opportunity for those attending to practice applying …

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11:00AM-2:00PM: Project Management

OYP Subcamp (D3) Training Tent Delta Pass, Glen Jean, WV, United States

Learn how to identify, plan, and execute projects in an efficient manner through discussion, activities, and group reflection. Ages 14-20.

1:30PM: Communication: the Key to Scout Advancement and Beyond

Alumni Adventure Complex

Communication is more than talking. It is a process of conveying information in a logical and rational manner to others, as well as processing what has been conveyed to us. Communication is critical to scout advancement as scouts move through the ranks of scouting and merit badge achievement. Scout advancement becomes easier when scouts have …

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2:00PM: NYLT and NYLT-LA

Tillerson Building- Scout Chat Room Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, United States

3:00PM: Scouting Values Go to School

Alumni Adventure Complex inside the NESA Exhibit.

Dr Gee will focus his remarks on the importance of higher education and how the values learned in scouting can promote success in college and beyond.

3:00PM-4:00PM: Forging Resilience to Fulfill Your Purpose

Alumni Adventure Complex

Dr. E. Gordon Gee is one of America’s most prominent higher education leaders. In 2014, Gee returned to West Virginia University, where his career as a university president began. He has also led the University of Colorado, Brown University, Vanderbilt University and The Ohio State University.