Climbing to Success
“Climbing to Success” is Scouting America’s council performance recognition program designed to encourage and reward success and measure the performance of our units. It is meant to encourage excellence in providing a quality program at all levels of Scouting America.
How Climbing to Success Works
Each criterion has a point value for builder, climber, and summit. As you achieve at one of those levels, you will earn those points. Each criterion will be scored and then you’ll have a total score. You will need a prescribed number of total points to achieve builder, and the same for climber and summit. These point values may change from year to year. As you earn more points, you’ll achieve a higher level.
What Climbing to Success to Your Unit
1. A framework for planning the year.
- Climbing to Success standards are based on what successful units do to continually improve.
- If your unit plans to achieve gold or silver Climbing to Success, you’ll have a strong and active program.
2. A method for evaluating your unit.
- Climing to Success provides tangible measurements based on things you are likely already tracking, such as how many campouts you have, how many youths are advancing, etc., and uses simple ways to calculate your performance.
3. Guidance in areas where you might do better.
- As you track your performance against the Climbing to Success standards, you can easily see where you could do better.
4. Specific guidelines and standards of what is considered good performance.
- Climbing to Success has specific, simple measures to help you. You can easily compare what you are doing against the standards.
5. Early warning of potential problem areas.
- You track any areas where your unit is not performing as you might like and have plenty of time to make corrections.
6. Recognition for good Scouting.
- You can proudly receive your builder, climber, or summit recognition for your Scouting unit for the year.
7. Benchmarking to get ideas and tips from other good units.
- You can receive help and best practices in areas where other units have met the summit standard.
- In the areas where you are doing well, you can give help and ideas to other units.