The Andrew Jackson Council operates numerous activities to reach students of all ages. The various program units are described below. Some of these programs are the traditional Cub and Boy Scout units, but today Scouting extends much further than it use to. Today's Scouting experience offers a more broad, hands on approach to learning. Programs such as Exploring, Venturing, and Learning for Life offer co-ed participation and a wide reach into our communities.

Tiger Cubs

A school-year program for first-grade (6 years-old) boys and their adult partners that stresses simplicity, shared leadership, learning about the community, and family understanding. Each boy/adult team meets for family activities, then once or twice a month all the teams meet for Tiger Cub group activities.

For more information about Tiger Cubs, please visit:  http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=cy

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Cub Scouting

A family and home centered program for boys in the second through fifth grade (7, 8, and 9 years old). Cub Scouting's emphasis is on a quality program at the local level, where the most boys and families are involved.

For more information about Cub Scouting, please visit:
http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=cy

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Webelos Scouts

Fourth and fifth-grade (10 years-old) boys are called Webelos Scouts (WE'll BE LOyal Scouts) and participate in more advanced activities that begin to prepare them to become Boy Scouts.

For more information about Webelos Scouts, please visit:
http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=cy

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Boy Scouting

A program for boys 11 through 17 designed to achieve the aims of Scouting through a vigorous outdoor program and peer group leadership with the counsel of an adult Scoutmaster. Boys may also become Boy Scouts if they have earned the Cub Scout Arrow of Light award or have completed the fifth-grade.

For more information about Boy Scouting, please visit: http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=by

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Exploring

Designed for young men and women ages 14 (who have completed the eighth grade) through 20 to gain insight into a variety of programs that offer leadership training, fitness, outdoor, service, and career hands-on experiences. Exploring promotes the conditions necessary for the growth and development of adolescent youth.

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Learning For Life

Learning for Life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America. The mission of Learning for Life is to serve others by helping to instill values of good character, participating citizenship, and personal fitness in young people, and in other ways to prepare them to make ethical choices throughout their lives so that they can achiever their full potential. Learning for Life can help schools prepare students to handle today's complex society. It's designed to build confidence, motivation, and self-esteem. It can help students learn positive personal values and make ethical decisions. Character development is a lifelong process, with roots firmly planted in childhood. Learning for Life has curricula designed to fulfill its mission.

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Order of the Arrow

The Order of the Arrow, the national brotherhood of honor campers, recognizes those Scout campers who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives. The Sebooney Okasucca Lodge of the Arrow is chartered to the Andrew Jackson Council. To become a member, a youth must be a registered member of a Boy Scout Troop or Varsity Scout Team and hold the rank of First Class. The youth must have experienced fifteen days and nights of camping during the two-year period prior to his election. The fifteen days and nights must include six consecutive days (including five nights) of resident camping, approved and under the auspices and standards of the Boy Scouts of America. The balance of the camping must be overnight, weekend, or other short-term camps. Scouts are elected to the Order by their fellow unit members, following approval by the Scoutmaster or Varsity team Coach.

For more information about The Order of the Arrow, please visit:http://www.main.oa-bsa.org/

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