[candu]

It's worth noting that BSA has STEM programs / badges, as do other national Scouting organizations elsewhere (e.g. Scouts Canada). So if it helps motivate this, it's really just extending availability of an existing program. (Also, STEM activities are largely craft-y, just not in the traditional "arts and crafts" sense).

As a Scout up in Canada, I vastly prefer the non-gender-segregated approach Scouts Canada takes. They've even openly welcomed LGBTQ members for some time now [1].

[1] http://www.scouts.ca/ca/frequently-asked-questions

[nsgi]

> They've even openly welcomed LGBTQ members for some time now [1].

It would be pretty shocking if they didn't in this day and age.

[John23832]

I guess the BSA are pretty shocking then...

[philh]

It looks like the BSA accepts LGBTQ members (or at least GBTQ) as of recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membersh...

[John23832]

They have, however, been openly hostile to GBTQ scout leaders by allowing religious chartered organizations to revoke scout leadership on the grounds of sexuality.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/dont-clap-just-yet-bo...

[cr0sh]

...and completely forget anything BSA if you don't believe in some sort of religion-based supreme being, and are open about it (at minimum at the national level - local level varies, but in general is pretty hostile to the idea of atheism as well).