Summit District

The Summit District is charged with making the Traditional Boy Scout program available to youth who would ordinarily not participate in Traditional Scouting due to any number of economic or social issues.

The Denver Area Council does this through providing after school programs at elementary and middle schools.  There is also collaboration with community organizations that are serving the same youth population to enhance their program and include the Traditional Scouting values.  Our goal is to make Scouting available to any child that wants to participate. 

Soccer and Scouting

Soccer and Scouting teaches soccer skills and provides exciting competition, and at the same time participants learn the life-long values taught in the Scouting program.

Our national Soccer and Scouting program is an outgrowth of trial programs initiated in Orange County, California; Mt. Prospect, Illinois; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Athens, Georgia; and tested in Denver, Colorado. In all of those locations, youth joined Scouting in order to play the game with their friends, and they learned once they were involved that Cub Scouting is fun and good for them.

Parents also get involved in our Soccer and Scouting program, as parent helpers, and as soccer coaches. Like Cub Scouting everywhere, most of the involved adults are the parents of the boys benefiting from it. In the case of Soccer and Scouting, the practices and games are usually family events, fun for everyone.