Boy Scouts of America, San Diego - Imperial Council

Learning for Life is all-inclusive, serves boys and girls and is provided to children in grades kindergarten through high school. Our mission is to enable young people to become responsible individuals by teaching positive character traits, leadership, career development and life skills so they can make ethical choices and achieve their full potential.

 
Our Character Development Program is essential to the personal as well as academic success of each student. Classroom teachers implement our curriculum during the school day using grade level teaching guides geared to the appropriate age level. Our school partners believe the program is creating a better environment in the classroom, and on campus, and in the home. However, as you know, funds within the public sector are extremely limited

Special Programs

 

Juvenile Court and Community Schools

Exploring brings representatives from a variety of occupations into participating  JCCS classrooms to give these “at risk” students an overview of their job and the training required to become involved. Because we feel that these young people need to know that they can make a good living in this community, lawyers, chefs, nurses, law enforcement agents, military representatives among others have spoken to these young people.

 

In addition to having speakers come to them, the students have a chance to go off-site. A trip to National University included a tour of the facilities as well as a chance to work in their computer lab under the guidance of experienced teachers who demonstrated how to create and evaluate video games.

 

This past summer, all students from these schools were invited to a “Day on the Bay” held at Camp Fiesta Island. They went canoeing, kayaking, did leather working and learned about some species that live in our waters.

 

Summer Academies

 

For the past two summers, students have had the opportunity to have an intense experience in two fields:

 

Those enrolled in “Business Basics” learn about finance, investments, insurance, real estate and entrepreneurship from professionals in each area. 

 

From learning basic skills from FBI agents to participating in a “mock trial”, the youth registered in the “Criminal Justice” Post got a first hand view of what is involved in the fascinating field.