Hi! I’m Adam Sowers.
I started in Scouting at age 7. I had just moved with my parents to a new school district, and a flyer came home in the fall about joining Cub Scouts. My mom asked me if I had any friends joining the pack, and I told her “I don’t have any friends yet.” Needless to say, she took me to the meeting. Ten years later, I earned my Eagle Scout award and kept my vigil in the Order of the Arrow.
Almost forty years later, I am still involved in Scouting after a long break for college and married life. My oldest joined Cub Scouts in 2017 and since then I have been active at the den, pack, troop, district, lodge, and council level. I currently serve as the Scoutmaster of Troop 114, Assistant Cubmaster of Pack 79, Associate Lodge Adviser of Shenandoah Lodge 258, and Vice-President of Finance for the Virginia Headwaters Council.
Along the way I have found creative, thrifty solutions to challenges I’ve encountered in leading the Scouting program. If you’re here, you have probably had the some of the same challenges, and I’m happy to share my solutions, as well as learn about your ‘scout hacks’ as well. (I come from a computer science background, so I’m using the term hack in its jargon sense– usually the first definition, and sometimes the second; maybe the third, depending on the severity of the hike!)
I am a 2024 recipient of the Order of the Arrow Founder’s Award from Shenandoah Lodge, and 2025 recipient of the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout from Virginia Headwaters Council.