Cub Scouts

I'll challenge that.  Until the last two years, I was at summer camp for 17 years straight.    Most chosen - Eagle required ...  first, aid, emergency prep, camping, swimming, etc Next highest - were cool rare opportunities - Small boat sailing, ATV, horsemanship, astronomy, etc Basic badges - Finger carving, climbing, riffle shooting, archery. etc Trades related - Welding, etc Filling slots were done by some badges.  Not unpopular, but usually a good number of scouts.  Mammal studies.  Bird Studies. Forestry.  Chess.   STEM - Were popular, but depending on which one.   People who signed up for stem usually had been thru the other badges or wanted to do a session where they earned three instead of two separate for two.   ...  Rocketry was popular.  Electronics, somewhat.  etc.   One trouble is defining what is STEM versus what is trades or just plain old long-standing badge.   STEM can be popular, but not really any more than others. 

Well this is absolutely false, Scouting in general, and thus the BSA was founded on outdoor skills. 

Amen.

It's good to see we still have humor after what we have endured for so long. Especially after seeing the true colors of the National office.Speaking for myself I guess humor and laughter is what's kept me from going insane.✌️🙏

Too lazy to find the link to one of my earlier posts, so I’ll retype: An Italian exchange student in my crew was trying to get up to speed with translating her scouting experience into ours. Among the terms that perplexed her: “scouter.” Because, she said, “You know, once a scout, always a scout.”