{"id":11162,"date":"2025-02-07T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=11162"},"modified":"2025-02-07T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:51:50","slug":"celebrating-115-years-of-scouting-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/02\/07\/celebrating-115-years-of-scouting-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 115 years of Scouting America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/MizzouMBU2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2200\" height=\"1467\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/MizzouMBU2023-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Scouts gather in Jesse Auditorium during Mizzou Merit Badge University.\" class=\"wp-image-11168\" style=\"width:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/MizzouMBU2023-edited.jpg 2200w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/MizzouMBU2023-edited-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/MizzouMBU2023-edited-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/MizzouMBU2023-edited-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/MizzouMBU2023-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/MizzouMBU2023-edited-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Scouts gather in Jesse Auditorium during Mizzou Merit Badge University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow, we join scouts and supporters around the country in celebrating Scouting America\u2019s 115<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary! Mizzou is a longtime partner of Scouting America, and we are proud to help them impact the next generation \u2013 including our local scouts in <a href=\"https:\/\/greatriversscouting.org\/\">the Great Rivers Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year since <a>201<\/a>0, we have collaborated with Scouting America to host Mizzou Merit Badge University. From across the state and region, over 1,000 scouts visit our campus to earn merit badges by attending courses that reflect the range of hands-on programs offered at Mizzou. The topics range from robotics and space exploration to art and citizenship. Many are taught by our world-class faculty and graduate students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Scouting America for this remarkable achievement! We look forward to many more years of working together to prepare bold leaders for our state and nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We join scouts and supporters around the country in celebrating Scouting America\u2019s 115th anniversary! Mizzou is a longtime partner of Scouting America, and we are proud to help them impact the next generation \u2013 including our local scouts in the Great Rivers Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}