Collin Erickson is a Boy Scout from Nebraska. He tested his skills using a bow and arrow. He says the Jamboree is an event like no other.
COLLIN ERICKSON: “Jamboree is amazing. All these opportunities that I have been able to do like fly a plane, archery, trap shooting, rifle shooting, anything like that, and I have gotten great leadership experience.”
The Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree is for boys eleven to eighteen. It has an interesting history. The first Jamboree was supposed to be held in nineteen thirty-five. It was to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Scouting in America. But a polio outbreak in Washington forced Scout leaders to cancel the event.
Two years later, about twenty-seven thousand Boy Scouts attended the Jamboree in Washington. They camped in tents surrounding the Washington Monument. Scouts from all forty-eight American states brought wood to use for the main campfire.
This year about four hundred Boy Scouts from twenty-six other countries also attended the National Jamboree. Elechi Todd is from Trinidad and Tobago.
ELECHI TODD: “We were on the bus with some Egyptian people and people from Grenada. When I saw people from Saudi Arabia, I didn’t feel so different.”
Vimell Presad of Malaysia says he is happy he is taking so many wonderful memories away from the event.
VIMELL PRESAD: “I think the friends, the hospitality of the American Boy Scouts, the activities. Definitely a once in a lifetime opportunity I'm doing here.”
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