Editing Scouting in Missouri (section)

===Great Rivers Council===
Great Rivers Council (653) is based in [[Columbia, Missouri]] and serves Scouts in 33 counties in Mid-Missouri. In 1971 Great Rivers Council merged with Lake of the Ozarks Council (314).

====Districts====
*'''Black Diamond''' is located in [[Randolph County, Missouri|Randolph]], [[Schuyler County, Missouri|Schuyler]], [[Sullivan County, Missouri|Sullivan]], [[Putnam County, Missouri|Putnam]], [[Adair County, Missouri|Adair]], [[Scotland County, Missouri|Scotland]], [[Knox County, Missouri|Knox]], [[Linn County, Missouri|Linn]], [[Macon County, Missouri|Macon]], and Western Shelby, counties.
*'''Boonslick''' is located in [[Boone County, Missouri|Boone]], [[Cooper County, Missouri|Cooper]] and [[Howard County, Missouri|Howard]] counties
*'''Five Rivers''' is located in [[Cole County, Missouri|Cole]], [[Osage County, Missouri|Osage]], [[Gasconade County, Missouri|Gasconade]] and [[Maries County, Missouri|Maries]] counties.
*'''Grand Prairie''' is located in [[Callaway County, Missouri|Callaway]], [[Audrain County, Missouri|Audrain]] and [[Montgomery County, Missouri|Montgomery]] counties.
*'''Kinderhook''' is located in [[Morgan County, Missouri|Morgan]], [[Moniteau County, Missouri|Moniteau]] and [[Camden County, Missouri|Camden]] counties.
*'''Mark Twain''' is located in [[Pike County, Missouri|Pike]], [[Ralls County, Missouri|Ralls]], [[Lewis County, Missouri|Lewis]], [[Monroe County, Missouri|Monroe]], [[Marion County, Missouri|Marion]] and Eastern [[Shelby County, Missouri|Shelby]] counties.
*'''Osage Trails''' is located in [[Chariton County, Missouri|Chariton]], [[Saline County, Missouri|Saline]], [[Pettis County, Missouri|Pettis]] and [[Benton County, Missouri|Benton]] counties.

====Lake of the Ozarks Scout Reservation====
[[File:Sinquefield_Invention_Lab_Sign.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the Sinquefield Invention Lab]]
The Council operates Lake of the Ozarks Scout Reservation, also known as Camp Hohn. Scouts BSA and Venturing Camps are offered at Hohn. The camp is available for year-round use by Scout units for a variety of activities.  
[[File:Program_building.jpg|thumb|Inside the Sinquefield Program Building]]

Lake of the Ozarks Scout Reservation is located on the Lake of the Ozarks Osage Arm at mile marker 44 near Laurie, Missouri.  The camp offers facilities and equipment available for unit use and the Kit Carson Trail, an eight-mile-long perimeter trail which winds through the hills and along the bluff overlooking the Lake. The Lake of the Ozarks Scout Reservation is home to the Sinquefield Invention Lab, Program Building and Welding/Blacksmithing Shop. The Sinquefield Invention Lab and Program Building was opened in May 2017, and is currently the only invention lab in the entire Boy Scouts of America. The Welding/Blacksmithing Shop opened in 2019. The facility has 9 labs: electronics & robotics, 2D design & woodworking, 3D modeling, blacksmithing, print & design, multimedia, leadership, business & ethics, and creativity. The Sinquefield Invention Lab and Program Building is used year-round as a merit-badge workshop, camping facility, and training center.

In addition, the Great Rivers Council has two mobile invention labs. These labs can be hooked onto a truck and taken anywhere in the council.

With the addition of the Sinquefield Invention Lab & Program Building, the Lake of the Ozarks Scout Reservation is currently the only Scouts BSA camp where scouts have access to an invention lab, a COPE/Climbing course, shooting sports, and a full aquatics program.

==== Camp Thunderbird ====
Started 1960 (based on its 50th-anniversary in 2010), now closed.

Located in Randolph County Latitude 39.542258 Longitude -92.3293471 on Lake Thunderbird.

* 547 acres 12 group campsites Platform tents provided.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Where To Go Camping -- Missouri BSA Camps Page 1 |url=http://local.pacbsa.org/oa/missouriBSA.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=local.pacbsa.org}}</ref>
* Dining Hall or Patrol Cooking 33 Merit Badges offered.

====Order of the Arrow====
The council is served by the Nampa Tsi lodge.

In 1971 Meta #216 and Po-E-Mo #426 merged. This merge took place after the Great Rivers Council merged with the Lake of the Ozark Council. The name Nampa-Tsi translated means "twin lodges."

There have been different designs for the lodge pocket flap. The original design of our lodge flap, by Vigil Honor James Quick, had an Osage (pronounced Oh-Song-Eh) Indian with a reservation hat, a coup staff, a flaming arrow, a lake and rivers, and two tepees. Some think that the hat was worn by the Osage Indian because they traded with settlers. This was not the case. The hats were taken as coup from pioneer settlers after they had been scalped.

====Sons of Daniel Boone====
Originally, the [[Sons of Daniel Boone]] was created by [[Daniel Carter Beard]] to encourage boys to go outdoors for recreation. This organization became the Boy Pioneers of America which merged with similar outdoor groups into the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Beard#ref984782, Encyclopedia Britannica, "Daniel Beard: American illustrator and author"]</ref> In 2006, the Sons of Daniel Boone reemerged as an honor camp society for Scouts and Scouters who have kept returning to Great Rivers Council Summer Camp.<ref>[https://grcbsa.orgBoy Scouts of America Great Rivers Council]</ref>

==== Invention Scouts ====
[[File:Invention-Scouts-logo_3D-Black-Logo-Inside_Fixed.png|thumb|Invention Scouts Logo|125x125px]]
Invention Scouts was founded in the Great Rivers Council in 2015 by Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield. It was founded as a Boy Scouts of America alternative to traditional STEM programs, which were too expensive and exclusive. The motto of Invention Scouts is "become an inventor and entrepreneur for life". The program is coeducational and is available to boys and girls aged 11–21. Scouts are exposed to cutting-edge equipment such as laser engravers, 3D printers, and CNC routers among others. Invention Scouts has its own ranks: Invention Scouts, Apprentice, Journeyman, & Master.