Scouting offers a range of age specific programs designed for boys from 6 to 21 and girls from 14 to 21. All feature a learning by doing approach, offering fun and adventure as members build leadership, teamwork, physical/mental fitness, and a spirit of service/duty, helping them grow into competent, caring, adults of good character.

Members can start at any level; no prior experience is required. The council's membership is comprised of youth and adults representing all racial, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds, physical and mental abilities, and educational experiences.

• Tiger Cubs, a part of Cub Scouts, is a year-round family- and home-centered program that encourages the ethical decision-making skills for first-grade (or 7-year-old) boys. These boys participate in the program with their adult partners. The program emphasizes shared leadership, learning about the community, and family understanding.
• Cub Scouts is a year-round family- and home-centered program that develops ethical decision-making skills for boys in the second through fifth grade (or who are 8, 9, and 10 years old). Activities emphasize character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness.
• Webelos Scouts, a part of Cub Scouts, is a year-round family- and home-centered program that develops ethical decision-making skills for fourth- and fifth-grade (or 10-year-old) boys. Webelos Scouts participate in more advanced activities that begin to prepare them to become Boy Scouts.
• Boy Scouting. A year-round program for boys 11 through 17 designed to achieve the aims of Scouting through a vigorous outdoor program and peer group leadership with the counsel of an adult Scoutmaster. (Boys also may become Boy Scouts if they have earned the Cub Scouting Arrow of Light Award and are at least 10 years old or have completed the fifth grade and are at least 10 years old.)
• Varsity Scouting. An active, exciting, year-round program for young men 14 through 17 built around five program fields of emphasis: advancement, high adventure, personal development, service, and special programs and events.
• Venturing. A year-round program for young men and women who are 14 (and have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years of age to provide positive experiences through exciting and meaningful youth-run activities that help them pursue their special interests, grow by teaching others, and develop leadership skills.
• Sea Scouts.  The Sea Scouting program in the USA is currently a division of the BSA's Venturing division. This area of Scouting is for Senior Scouts (boys AND GIRLS) from age 14 through age 20.  Camping, Hiking and backpacking, Canoeing and kayaking, Sailing and power boating, High adventure activities of all types.

For more background on the above scouting programs, visit http://www.scouting.org.

Start your Scouting journey now by visiting the Be A Scout website to help find a Scouting unit near you.