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[quote=Anonymous]A pitch to look at Scouts f/k/a Boy Scouts.  There are a good many science kids in scouts.  It’s outdoorsy and camping but not athletic oriented.

We were late comers to Scouting, but two of my boys did it and went through Eagle rank.  It’s a very good middle school activity for kids who are not way into sports.  My older son played fairly low level travel soccer and had no problem fitting it in.  It’s a once a week thing then weekend camping once a month or so.  Also, the troops typically do a week in the summer.

The kids learn some useful stuff, but mostly it’s a good place for kids to fit in.  Lots of kids stop when they hit high school ages which is totally fine.  Kids who want to “make Eagle” typically have to stick around to 16 or so.  But, there will be a few science kids.  Mine weren’t, but love telling the story of the younger scout leading them on an orienteering course and intentionally going off track so that he could take some water samples in a swamp for an experiment.  That kid did his Eagle ceremony the same time as my youngest and flew back from Boston for the ceremony- he had started at Harvard.

My kids mostly liked learning how to camp and hike, and will take off a couple times a year to backpack/camp for a few days.  Goodness knows they didn’t get that from me.

Once kids hit high school there are more non-sport things to do - theater, robotics, etc that don’t meet once a month.

The kids do learn and practice actual leadership skills.  Those are frankly hard to get outside of a very few kid activities.  It is one thing that my other kids were very impressed by their younger siblings.  By high school, They could do group tasks with kids they did not know well and get things accomplished without being jerks.

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