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Celebrate your Eagle Scout with the Class of 2025 Commemorative Yearbook, now available to order.

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Eagle Scouts who join NESA within one year of their board of review date will receive a 15% discount on a 5-year or Lifetime membership.

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Give your Eagle pride a purpose with membership in the National Eagle Scout Association. Your membership empowers Scouting’s mission, protects the Eagle Scout legacy, and keeps Eagle alumni connected.

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Eagle Pride Showcase

Eagle Pride Showcase shows the contribution of NESA members to the mission, vision, and delivery of Scouting programs in communities across the country.

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Give Your Eagle Pride A Purpose

As a member of the National Eagle Scout Association, you further the mission, values, and time-honored traditions of Scouting in your community and our country. Give your Eagle pride a purpose by joining NESA today; the future is in your hands.

Eagle Pride Showcase

Showcase the moments in your life that exemplify the best of Scouting in your units, family, community, or workplace.

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Ben Weingarten celebrates earning his Eagle with his Distinguished Eagle Scout Grandfather and Father.

The journey started by Robert Morell, Scoutmaster 1982-1988.

Matthew is pictured with his Eagle Scout father, James, holding a shadow box that contains Matthew’s great-grandfather’s Eagle Medal.

Lauren becomes the third Eagle Scout in her father’s family. The two earned their Eagles 39 years apart.

Thomas Proctor, Director of Institutional Research at McLennan Community College, received the 2025 NISOD Excellence Award, honoring his exceptional work in higher education.

The Andersen-Taylor family celebrating at the Court of Honor for Gabriel Andersen-Taylor.

Willie Ore received the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award from the Old North State Council on April 4, 2024.

Congrats to this family and their three generations of Eagle Scouts.

Eagle Scout Terry Fossum, winner of the Fox Network survival reality competition Kicking & Screaming.

Troop 13 celebrates 93 years of Scouting with three new Eagle Scouts

Ron Herring received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award during the Laurel Highlands Council’s 75th Annual Eagle Scout Recognition Dinner at Acrisure Stadium. Joined by family and fellow Scouts, he shared heartfelt reflections celebrating Scouting’s enduring legacy in Western Pennsylvania.

This father-son duo both earned the rank of Eagle Scout and have each been honored with the Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service to youth.

Nicholas is joined by family members at his Eagle Court of Honor. He becomes the eighth Eagle in his family spanning two generations.

At 61, Paul earned his Master of Science in Project Management degree in October 2022. He plans new his degree to teach at the university level.

A Coast Guard Academy graduate has retired as a Captain after 28 1/2 years of active duty. He commanded two Coast Guard Cutters and an R&D prototype ship.

Robert 'Bob' Beggs receives the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award from the Chester County Council. Bob is joined by his wife, Erin, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Gary Schroeder, May 2022.

CHICAGO - On Friday, April 29th, 2022 Colonel (Retired) Paul J. Hettich was inducted into Loyola University Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

Troop 846 recently celebrated their latest Eagle Scout, Gavin B, with 19 Eagle Scouts participating.

Five Eagle Scouts from the McNiff family.

Third-generation Eagle Scout and NESA Life member, Kyle, is joined by his grandfather and father at this Eagle Court of Honor this past October.

Eagle Scout Judge Omar Aboulhosn has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia since 2016.

Named the United States National Junior Firefighter of the Year by the National Volunteer Fire Council at their annual awards gala in Washington, DC, for my Eagle Scout Service Project recruiting volunteer firefighters. Now a full member of those departments, I am proud to be a fourth-generation BSA member, a third-generation firefighter, and a second-generation Eagle Scout who earned the Glenn & Melinda Adams Eagle Scout Project of the Year award from the Monmouth Council.

Torben recently passed the CPEN (Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse) Exam and now is in the Board of Certified Emergency Nurses "High Five" Club. He is the 98th Emergency Nurse to hold all five of the board's professional nursing designations.

Former BSA professional Chris Schuler before his first campout with then Lion Scout son Chris.

2023 National Jamboree

July 19 - 28, 2023

Jamboree is more than a destination. It’s the adventure of lifetime. And there is simply nothing else like it on the planet.

What’s a Jamboree? It’s not camp. National Jamboree is 360-degrees of fun, friends and fellowship with hands-on adventure that takes you places you never thought you’d go and challenge you to try things you never thought you could.

It’s the beginning of your own heroes’ journey that will challenge you to go farther than you ever thought possible. You’ll reach deeper and lift yourself higher to become the best version of yourself.

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