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Welcome to Great Rivers Council
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Headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, Great Rivers Council, Boy Scouts of America serves the youth and adult volunteers in 33 counties in central and northern Missouri. Our mission is to provide character development, citizenship training, and growth in physical, mental and spiritual fitness, to help create the next generation of leaders.
The Great Rivers Council is home to Invention Scouts and the only Sinquefield Invention Campus in the Boy Scouts of America. Our Invention Campus provides access hi-tech equipment, computer lab, 3D printers, laser engravers, CNC routers, embroidery machines, Scan-n-Cut machines, welding, metalworking, and more.
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To help us continue to provide virtual programming into the Fall & beyond, virtual merit badge classes will be $15. These fees will help us to cover the costs of Zoom, continue to develop quality content including powerpoints, etc., and provide instruction. Certain merit badges (examples: basketry, woodworking, etc.) will have higher costs due to kits that will be mailed out to participants.
Classes will be capped to ensure quality instruction. Electronic merit badge cards will be emailed to participants at the conclusion of the merit badge. We will do our best to continue to schedule more classes. Please subscribe to our Program Newsletter to receive monthly updates on new virtual merit badge classes.
If you have any questions, please contact Thomas Yang at thomas.yang@scouting.org
Please see our new monthly program newsletter.
As always, the safety of our Scouts, volunteers, employees and communities is our top priority. This checklist outlines several minimum guiding protocols that adult leaders/ volunteers must consider while working with local and state health departments, local councils, chartered organizations and Scouting families on when and how to resume meetings, service projects, camping and all other official Scouting activities.
Please contact Dennis Kerns at dennis.kerns@scouting.org and Charles Wood at charles.wood@scouting.org with any questions.
The Great Rivers Council is pleased to announce its 2021 “Camp Card”. This initiative is designed to help Scouts earn their way to a summer/day camp program. Units participating in this program will earn $6.50 on each $10 Camp Card they sell. The cards will be distributed in the districts or available for pick up at the Council Service Center starting March 9th.
Sign up today to sell.
The Elbert K. Fretwell Outstanding Educator Award is presented to those that improve students’ lives by proactively modeling and teaching Scouting values. The award may be presented to teachers, educational support staff, and school administrators who stand out from their professional peers in instilling Scouting Values for students. This Award is intended to recognize non-scouting educators, who are nominated through local units. A unit may nominate one individual per year on each school campus.
See the nomination form for more information.
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The Great Rivers Council is generously supported by United Way of Northeast Missouri, United Way of Audrain County, United Way of Central Missouri (Jefferson City & Lake), and Sedalia-Pettis County United Way.