This year the National Eagle Scout Association will award 153 scholarships to deserving Eagle Scouts through various Eagle Scout scholarship funds. These scholarships vary in size from $1,000 to $50,000. Read more here and download the applications.

Mike Fossum once said that “it says something about who you are and the kind of journey you’ve been on” in regard to possessing an Eagle Scout Award. Well the now Distinguished Eagle Scout is embarking on another incredible journey.
For nearly six months, Fossum, who is an active Scouter in Houston, will be working at the International Space Station as part of Expedition 28. His flight, aboard Russia's Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 7.
Follow the NASA TV schedule here: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
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Minnesota Teen Named American Legion Eagle Scout of Year
A year after being named a runner-up for the American Legion Eagle Scout of the Year award, Robert B. Rasmussen took top honors in 2011. The soon-to-be senior at Hutchinson (Minnesota) High School earned the award and a $10,000 college scholarship in May.
The Scout motto, “Be Prepared,” took on added urgency for Eagle Scout Phil Murdock as he piloted a raft full of Scouts down the Snake River in July 2010. He had just beached his boat near a jumping rock when one of the Scouts collapsed in the boat.
All through his first week at Camp Tom Hale in 2003, 11-year-old Jon Michael McGrath heard shotguns firing in the distance. So when he got the chance to participate in a free shoot at the end of the week, he jumped at the chance. It was the first time he had ever used a shotgun, but he hit nearly every target.
In ordinary times, a bicycle trip from one end of Japan to the other—a distance of some 2,000 miles—would be impressive but maybe not newsworthy. But these are not ordinary times in that Pacific nation. The triple whammy of an earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear disaster has turned life upside down for millions of Japanese residents.