Junior Leadership Training

July 22, 1999 - Wading River, NY. How do young teenage boys learn time management techniques, effective public speaking skills, and develop the ability to get their peers to listen to what they say?  Few people outside Scouting know that the Scouts themselves run the program.  The adults may offer guidance, but the boys implement the programming and keep the meetings and activities running smoothly.  Everyone knows that Scouts enjoy the great outdoors and have to master skills like first aid, knot tying, map & compass and firebuilding, but the best kept secret about the Boy Scouts of America is its Leadership Training program.

Star Scouts Ben C. & Andrew K. leave for the Junior Leadership Program

Boys are chosen from each local troop and sent to the scout camp facility in Wading River for a week-long curriculum of seminars and exercises in Leadership Training.  This experience is conducted by the Theodore Roosevelt Council’s Training Committee to prepare these Scouts for more effective leadership.  Eleven different leadership skills are taught, and each boy learns how to apply them in his home troop.  It’s not a classroom environment… the boys “learn by doing.”  Leadership and management are taught through a program of scoutcraft skills like those mentioned above.  Boys take their turn “leading the leaders,” sharing stories and anecdotes of methods that do and don’t work, and they master skills that will last long past their involvement as Boy Scouts. Troop 267 is the Roslyn area’s only Scout troop and has graduated 12 boys from this elite program.  This year’s future leaders are eighth graders Ben Cahn of Solomon Schechter Middle School and Andrew Kovacs of Herricks Middle School.  Both boys have achieved the rank of “Star,” and hold the office of Patrol Leader in the troop.  For information on how your son or grandson can join the troop, call the Scouting Hotline at 621-0675 for information.

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