Boy Scouts of America Troop 33 is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and chartered by the Manoa School Association of Parents and Teachers (APT). We are an active member of the Aloha Council Kapiolani District. Our troop meets for an evening of fun and learning every Friday evening at 7:30 at "The Hut" on the opposite end of the parking lot across from Manoa School's cafeteria.
Troop 33 in Honolulu, Hawaii
The National Boy Scouts of America sanctions Aloha Council as this island’s umbrella for the four districts on Oahu. Troop 33 is chartered by the Manoa School APT.
The highest rank of “Eagle” is many boys’ ultimate goal, but education and fun are the true basics of Scouting. All programs focus on the fundamental principle that boys should achieve growth through activities which meet the aims of Scouting: character building, citizenship training, self-reliance, and physical and mental fitness. Troop activities provide opportunities for boys to live the ideals of Scouting, to develop proficiency in outdoor and practical life skills, to explore career possibilities and to gain leadership experience.
The Troop’s code is flexibility, reflecting the fact that its Scouts, ages 10 through 17, function on a variety of maturity and skill levels while managing various academic and personal commitments. While each Scout determines his own pace for rank advancement and designs his own agenda of participation in ongoing activities and skills acquisition, he must also learn to work cooperatively in mixed-age patrols of six to eight boys and as a member of the Troop.
Troop 33 is led and organized by the Scouts themselves. Parent volunteers assist as committee members, leaders, counselors and in all other areas of need, but the Troop survives because each boy assumes increasingly responsible leadership positions within the Troop as he matures. Scouts are given the opportunity to try and try again, to grow, and to learn. It is in this way that Scouting truly affects each community – by developing future leaders within a caring, supportive forum. It is a tradition which Troop 33 has maintained for over 40 years and which it expects to continue well into this millennium.
