13 May 2010
World Jamboree To Be Held In West Virginia
Posted by admin under: International; jamboree .
Scoutmaster Musings is reporting that the World Jamboree in 2019 will be held in West Virginia according to Tico Perez, the national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America.
In 2019, the 24th World Scout Jamboree will be held at The Summit in West Virginia – BSA’s new high adventure base. This was announced by Tico Perez recently, not just that it was being worked on, but that it would happen. Of course, things can change.
Since 2019 is nine years away current Bear, Wolf, and Tiger Cubs are the most probable participants. It’s not too early to have a Scoutmaster talk about this global event at one of your year-end Pack meetings and have scouts start saving their nickels and quarters. It’s a great far-distant goal that will creep closer while keeping young scouts motivated to progress. A tiger den that makes a pact to attend the World Jambo together nine years from now – wouldn’t that be cool?
It most certainly would! My youngest son is a Wolf right now. The economy has slaughtered my funds this past year, but we’re talking about the far future when everything will be bright, sunny, and happy. I’m starting the penny fund now.
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3 Comments so far...
New York OA Trader | Shared Items From Around The Web – May 14, 2010 Says:
14 May 2010 at 9:00 am.
[...] World Jamboree To Be Held In West Virginia [...]
MB Says:
27 May 2010 at 5:24 pm.
Uh, was not aware it was a ‘done deal’.
The selection of the WJ sites is done by the World Scout Conference, and AFAIK, they haven’t yet met to select the 2019 Jamboree. They just recently had selected the 2015 one, and I think its a year or two before they met again, at which point they’ll pick the 2019 site.
Steve Henning Says:
20 August 2010 at 3:07 pm.
The 160 national Scout associations around the world will vote for the final selection of a jamboree site for 2019 at the World Scout Conference in Brazil in January 2011. In the meantime, Scouts Canada, the Scout Association of Mexico, and the Boy Scouts of America will move forward to ensure the selection of the site.
