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Posts Tagged ‘Boy Scouts of America’
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Patriots Point Welcomes Scouts for Pinewood Derby
Posted: Mar 25, 2014The Coastal Carolina Council, Boy Scouts of America has partnered with Patriots Point to host numerous events for local Cub and Boy Scouts. This past weekend, area Cub and Boy Scouts […]
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Video Thursday: Robotics
Posted: Sep 22, 2011Robotics has become a new technology wave for future applications. It has even become a new scouting merit badge and will be taught soon to scouts camping on board the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point as part of the merit badge package offered to our scouts.
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Patriot Day At Patriots Point: The Power Of Memory
Posted: Sep 12, 2011Yesterday a crowd of 700-800 people silently watched and listened in Hangar Bay 3 on the USS Yorktown as over 9,000 names were read aloud. The names included all those who died on 9/11/01 and members of our armed forces killed in the War on Terror since 2001.
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Video Thursday, 6.02.11, Scouts At Patriots Point!
Posted: Jun 02, 2011It’s Video Thursday and today we’ll look at scouts onboard the USS Yorktown. Boy Scouts start as Cub Scouts and our first video is a great trailer put together by […]
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Happy 101st Birthday Boy Scouts of America!
Posted: Feb 08, 2011In 1909 an American businessman and millionaire, William D. Boyce, became lost in the streets of London. A young (11-12 year old) British Boy Scout helped him back to his […]
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Patriot Day, September 11, 2010
Posted: Sep 08, 2010Saturday morning at 8 a.m. gates open for visitors to walk aboard the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point for our Patriot Day commemorative program. Our color guard will consist of […]
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Norman Rockwell and the Boy Scouts of America
Posted: Jun 11, 2010Every weekend (except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years) 200-600 scouts arrive to camp onboard the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point. This weekend we are scheduled for 526 scouting campers onboard. […]
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Happy 100th birthday to the Boy Scouts of America
Posted: Feb 08, 2010Nobody knew it at the time, but when American businessman William Boyce lost his way in the London fog in 1909 and was guided to his destination by a boy […]
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Sea Cadets and Sea Scouts at Patriots Point
Posted: Nov 13, 2009Patriots Point’s overnight stay program is very well known, our programs for elementary through high school are becoming better known, but two youth programs at Patriots Point are poorly known…even […]