Every Scout deserves a trained leader!


BSA Online Learning Center Link

Every adult is expected to take the following online courses at a minimum:
- Boy Scout Leader Fast Start
- Youth Protection Training
- Safety Afloat
- Safe Swim Defense

Please print out the certificate at the end of these online courses.  This will ensure your records can be updated with the council training registrar.


Northern Tier District Training Schedules Link

Wood Badge Training Link

What is Wood Badge? It is one of the ultimate training experiences for an adult.

It provides participants with firsthand knowledge regarding how teams develop and achieve excellence. Participants take part in an active learning process through involvement in planning, development, presentation and assessment. Participants will enjoy a world-class learning experience that will strengthen their long-term commitment to Scouting and provide them with valuable leadership skills.

Wood Badge is a series of fun and educational weekend training activities that develop you into a better Scout leader. There is some physical challenge involved, but nothing that should keep anyone from attending this great opportunity. The time constraints are tight, but only because we jam so many great training activities into the weekends. Some of the activities covered are:

• Camping as a patrol.

• Putting the patrol method into practice by camping, cooking and working as a group.

• Leadership skills development.

• Learning games and activities that will work well in your unit.

• Developing friendships that will last a lifetime.

• Conduct patrol meetings (not at camp) between your first and second weekends at camp. 

If you see adults in the Troop wearing two wooden beads on a leather lanyard and/or they are wearing a tan colored sash with a small plaid patch they have successfully earned their "ticket" in Wood Badge training.