Youth Advisory Committee
Meet the TAC Youth Advisory Committee
The Transatlantic Council’s Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) is giving Scouts a voice generating authenticity and strengthening the Transatlantic Council. The YAC is a service-learning and leadership development program comprised of seven outstanding youth from across the Council. These Scouts are selected to contribute to and inform the TAC Executive Board while acting as ambassadors and active Scouts in their communities.
Members collaborate to provide insights on issues that matter to Scouting youth today. They play a vital role in enhancing TAC by sharing feedback from TAC youth and advising on TAC Executive Board decisions. YAC members use their perspectives to initiate and lead projects that they believe will help TAC achieve its goal of Unparalleled Scouting.
Meetings
The YAC meets monthly from September – May and participates in Council Committee meetings. During the summer months, YAC members are active Scouts. They play an active role in summer camps in Switzerland and Croatia, staff NYLT, travel to the US to attend the National Order of the Arrow Conference and the National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience.
The team that makes up the YAC consists of active, motivated Scouts. They are eager to gather and share their insights. If you see them at a Scouting event or in an online meeting, say hello. They are the voice of the Transatlantic Council’s youth.
Interested in joining?
YAC members serve a one-year term. Are you interested in joining the YAC or know a Scout who may be a wanting to join? Keep an eye on the application information shared with Transatlantic Council members in January 2025.
Questions?
Please contact YAC Adult Advisor Katrin Galeano.
Introducing the Team
Aaron
Aaron is an Eagle Scout and a proud member of both Paris-based BSA Troop 112, where he was SPL for two terms, and Venturing Crew 802. Aaron is a member of the Order of the Arrow Black Eagle Lodge 482, and he currently serves as Mantowagan Chapter Chief and as his troop’s Order of the Arrow Representative.
In 2022, Aaron graduated from the National Youth Leadership Training and will return this summer as SPL. He is looking forward to attending NYLT Leadership Academy and National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience during the summer 2024. Aaron has also served on staff at the 2024 Normandy Camporee.
Abbie
Abbie is a junior in high school living in Naples, Italy. She has been in Scouts BSA since 2019 with Troop 007G where she serves as a Junior Assistant Scoutmaster.
Abbie was inducted into the Order of the Arrow in 2020, earning the Brotherhood honor in 2022. Currently, she serves as the Black Eagle Lodge Chief. Abbie enjoys working with TAC camps where she is a merit badge counselor in the ecology area for Camp Alpine and as a Troop Guide for NYLT and at Camp Kenya.
Ian
Ian has been a member of Troop 401 for the past eight years. He has earned the rank of Eagle Scout, with a wide variety of experience in leadership and activities within Scouts. After living in London for ten years, Ian feels that he has become a global citizen. His experience with Scouts has played a crucial part in his development driving his desire to help other scouts to have the same if not better experience that he has had.
Ian has been a Troop Guide for the past four years and currently serves as a Junior Assistant Scoutmaster for his troop. He has helped with several different service opportunities and setting up different opportunities for his troop.
Karl
Karl is an Egyptian-American Life Scout. Karl has lived all of his life in Dubai and has been part of Troop 813 for a decade. Karl is French-educated and speaks four languages. He also has a passion for photography.
Karl is very outdoorsy having racked up over 25 camping nights and being voted into the Order of the Arrow.
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Nikolas
Nikolas is a 12-year-old Scout in Troop 44 serving Cub Scout Pack 44 as a Den Chief for the last year. He has been in the scouting program since he was a Tiger and has wanted to be in scouts since he was 5 years old and saw his first scout.
He was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and has lived in five different states and two countries. He loves watching the Washington Capitals, playing hockey, skiing, and doing all things scouting-related. He is deeply connected to his German heritage as he speaks the language, and has loved being closer to his Ur-Oma, and his Omi in Germany where he currently lives.
