Our Activities
Although Summer Camp and High Adventure Camp undoubtedly are the premiere events each year, the Troop’s regular itinerary of hikes, camps, and outdoor skills programs provide the basic “training ground” for its Scouts. These programs provide opportunities to master skills such as first aid, orienteering, water safety, hiking, camping, wilderness survival, and pioneering. They also encourage self-reliance, teamwork, and initiative.The Merit Badge Program comprises another aspect of a boy’s Scouting experience. While specific Merit Badges are required for rank advancement, and do provide skills training, the program essentially encourages each Scout to further pursue his personal interests and to explore new possibilities.
To specifically focus a Scout’s attention on citizenship, each boy is expected to participate in ongoing volunteer service projects on both an individual level and the unit level. Troop 33 Scouts have performed numerous service projects for their chartering school, the local Manoa Valley, and the larger Honolulu community. Troop projects have included service at book fairs, education nights, school grounds beautification days, charity walks, community residential center visitations, church clean-up days, botanical garden clean-up days, zoo fence painting and highway-litter pick-up days. Eagle service projects included recycling bin concrete pad installation, Nature Conservancy irrigation line construction, Tantalus soil erosion tree planting, Ualaka’a Trail koa tree replanting and erosion control, brush and invasive species removal, pathway construction, and planting at Lyon Arboretum.
How To Join
Our troop meets almost every Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Manoa School, 3155 Manoa Road. Look for us in the wooden yellow building across the school cafeteria parking lot. You can also contact us by emailing info@troop33manoa.com.
If our location is not convenient for you, you can locate a troop situated closer to your home through the link provided on BSA's National website at https://beascout.scouting.org.
Why Join: Scouting’s Bottom Line
What happens to a Scout? For every 100 boys who join Scouting, records indicate that:
- RARELY will one be brought before the juvenile court system
- 3 will become Eagle Scouts
- 17 will become future Scout volunteers
- 12 will have their first contact with a church
- 1 will become an important church leader
- 5 will earn their Duty to God Award
- 18 will develop a hobby that will last through their adult life
- 8 will enter a vocation that was learned through the merit badge system
- 1 will use his Scouting skills to save his own life
- 1 will use his Scouting skills to save the life of another person
Scouting’s alumni record is equally impressive. A recent nationwide survey of high schools revealed the following information:
- 85% of student council presidents were Scouts
- 89% of senior class presidents were Scouts
- 80% of junior class presidents were Scouts
- 75% of school publication editors were Scouts
- 71% of football captains were Scouts
Scouts also account for:
- 64% of Air Force Academy graduates
- 68% of West Point graduates
- 70% of Annapolis graduates
- 72% of Rhodes Scholars
- 85% of F. B. I. Agents
- 26 of the first 29 astronauts
- The pilots of both the Challenger and the Columbia space shuttles were Eagle Scouts (Ellison Onizuka and William McCool)
