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Faith and Beliefs
Faith and Beliefs It is clear that the World Scout Jamboree brings together a group with a diversity hardly rivaled by any other gathering. As such, questions of “diversity” or “appreciating diversity” are no mere aspirations but concrete and essential elements of the...
Contingent Training Now Open!
Contingent Training Now Open! The USA Contingent Management Team is pleased to share its official training for contingent members. The training is available on our Training Page and on YouTube as separate videos and in a playlist.All USA Contingent members (youth...
Announcing Café USA
Announcing Café USA The 24th World Scout Jamboree will be one of the most innovative Jamborees ever in more ways than one. It will be the first World Scouting Event held at the Summit Bechtel Scout Reserve. It is the second WSJ held within the USA and the first to be...
Déjà Vu, Life at the 1967 US World Scout Jamboree
Déjà Vu, Life at the 1967 US World Scout Jamboree This year is not the first time that the World Jamboree has come to the USA, but it is the second time. Kate Mulcahy, US Contingent Promotions Coordinator takes us back to Idaho in 1967 to experience the 12th World...
Lessons from the Jamboree
Lessons from the Jamboree The World Jamboree sticks with you your whole life. Ask anyone who’s been before, whether they went to the 2007 World Jamboree in the UK or the 1967 Jamboree in Idaho, they’ll tell you that their experience still affects their life. To look...
The Jamboree Experience
The Jamboree Experience The World Scout Jamboree is nearly impossible to describe. It is easiest to say that it is an event like no other. It is more descriptive to say that it is like a National Jamboree, with more countries represented, and with a focus on...
What I am Thankful for this Father’s Day
What I Am Thankful for this Father's Day A daughter's reflection on Scouting, going to the WSJ, and her DadShannon Mulligan has, like many of us, had a lot of scouting adventures. Again, like many scouts, she's had the chance to share those adventures with her family....
Walking Around the Jamboree – A Program Outline
Walking Around the Jamboree - A Program Outline This article was originally published in the June 2018 edition of WoJam Unlocked. Read the whole newsletter here. Where does one begin to explain the massive program at the next World Scout Jamboree? If a circus...
Calling All Young Adults: Introducing the Puma Patrol
A CALLING ALL YOUNG ADULTS: Introducing the Puma Patrol, an IST opportunity not to be missed! CALLING ALL YOUNG ADULTS: Introducing the Puma Patrol, an IST opportunity not to be missed! Serving on the Puma Patrol will place young adult ISTs in the driver’s seat of...
Young Women at the World Scout Jamboree
Young Women at the World Scout Jamboree Hannah Wheaton, US Contingent Promotions Coördinator, has plenty of experience Scouting as a girl. Today she shares with us some of her thoughts on girls in Scouting and at the World Jamboree. So, what does it mean to you when...
The Rover Brigade: The Place to Be as a Young Adult IST
The Rover Brigade: The Place to Be for Young Adult IST You do not age out of the World Jamboree. If you are 17 going on 18 (or 20 going on 21) and think your scouting days are finished, get a load of this: Not only are you encouraged to come to the Jamboree, but the...
Longer Table
Longer Table The World Scout Jamboree is huge. 50,000 scouts, 5 camps, and 160+ countries huge. Yet the magic of the Jamboree isn't just in its grandeur. It's also in its small, unexpected, human moments. Mark Beese, Scoutmaster of Troop 70302 at the 23rd World Scout...