A New Type of Scouting
What are the tools that will help your children grow into successful young men and women? In Seed Scouts we will answer this question and teach our children the skills to navigate life like champions. This is knowledge that most people don’t learn in school but pick up later in life, or sometimes not at all. These kids will start their lives with a huge head start having learned the following:
Wisdom
Public Speaking
Personal Finance
Technology
Critical Thinking
Persuasion
Entrepreneurship
Engineering Design
We are forming our first troop right now and will start meeting once every two weeks. Email us if you’re interested in your child becoming a founding member of Seed Scouts troop#1. Help us build this into something spectacular.
The Most Important Lessons
What do we teach?
Certain knowledge is so useful that everyone should possess it before starting out in life. This includes personal finance, critical thinking and the ability to speak in public. Topics like this can be summarized as knowing how to regulate your own life.
Personal skills are not as obvious but just as important. This includes understanding psychology, persuasion, decision making. These allow us to understand what motivates ourselves and others.
Finally, we add technology, problem solving and design round out the list. This knowledge will be critical for any young person navigating the future.
These form the core subjects of Seed Scouts. You will not find an organization or club that covers them all. That’s why we are here.
Meetings
Seed Scout troops meets every other week. Meetings last an hour and a parent or guardian must be present. The general structure of a meeting is as follows:
- Welcome: Hello / Pledge of Allegiance / Seed Scout Affirmation
- Public Speaking: A troop member gives a short speech, tells a story or joke
- Word of Wisdom: Proverb, saying or quote applicable to lesson
- Lesson: Topic for that meeting
- You Teach Me: Troop explains lesson back to leader (One of the best ways to learn)
- Field Assignment: Assigned small application of the lesson in everyday life
- Closing
Community of Content Creators
Open Source Scouting
An expert can distill the most important elements of a complex subject into a simple and memorable lesson. So simple in fact, that a 5 year old could understand it. This is what we need. We need the community to contribute content so that troops have a wide variety of lessons to draw from. Whatever your profession of background if you have unique knowledge that would benefit young people we want your help.
Eventually we want to cover a wide range of topics while also offering considerable depth. The goal is for troops to be able to navigate subjects and lessons similar pursuing majors/minors in college.
We call this idea Open Source Scouting. Anyone with knowledge or an idea can create lessons for Seed Scouts. No one person can do it all. But a community of like-minded people can change the world.
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