This week the BSA National Jamboree in Virginia will celebrate
Scouts 100th anniversary. Boys ages 12-18 will spend 10 days
doing everything from archery to robotics to testing their own
DNA. More than 26,000 scouts and 250,000 visitors are expected.
Boy Scouts have hosted the annual meeting since 1937. The Scouts
begin their new century with a campaign to draw in Latino’s. The
Scouts have their work cut out for them as they recruit the
Hispanic youth. “[Hispanics] don’t know what we’re about,” says
Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca. They are unfamiliar with
Scouting, he says, because many “didn’t have grandfathers,
fathers, or uncles grow up in Scouting.” To that end, handbooks,
advertisements and bumper stickers are now all available in
Spanish with a new slogan “Valores para toda la vida”. Some
immigrants incorrectly think that scouting is expensive or that
it is associated with US law enforcement . Latino family values
are exactly what the scouts offer. With the aid of good role
models, they camp, they hi