Cassidy Carden recently finished six weeks of summer camp as a staff member at Frank G. Lumpkin Boy Scout Camp.

It was an experience the 15-year-old Troup High School student won’t forget.

“There was a recruitment meeting at our high school and I thought it sounded pretty cool, so I decided to join,” said Carden, the son of Dwayne and Vickie Carden . “It was great, helping the younger Scouts and doing all the activities.”

Carden, who enjoys wrestling and soccer, has been a Scout for two or three years. He said Scouting has been good because “I get to meet new people and learn new things.”

He has learned to set goals for himself.

“I want to be a nuclear engineer,” he said. “I took this skills assessment test and the result gave me a list of careers, and that was one of the possibilities. I have always been good in science.”

He and others from the LaGrange area are headed to the National Boy Scout Leadership camp at Fort A.P. Hill, an Army installation near Bowling Green, Va. It’s the 100 th anniversary of the Boy Scouts.

About 80 Scouts traveled to Atlanta on two buses that left from LaGrange Mall on Frid ay afternoon. They got on a train to Washington D.C., where they’ll spend some time before joining 44,000 Scouts at the 10-d ay jamboree on Mond ay .

Carden and scoutmasters Mark Webb (Jamboree Troop 1921, Home Troop 3) and William Britt III (Jamboree Troop 1915, Home Troop 40) will be accompanied on the 100 th anniversary trip by other LaGrange area Scouts, including Michael Cannady , James Emery III, Quinten Brown, Jonathan Bentley, Travis Strickland Jr., Donald Cheyne , Ernest Fannings , Russell Lind, Samuel Stewart, Jacob Douthit , Kaleb Hutto , Nick Hinson , Devin Jackson, Trent Murphy, Darius Jackson, Rawley Lind, William Lundberg , Kole Murphy, Elijah Patrick, Jefferson Boyington , Wesley Willis, Daniel Wilson and Allen Webb.

Carden will serve as scribe for the council.

“I will be one responsible for getting the news and photos about our week at camp to the local newspapers,” he said.

It’s a job that he believes he was meant to do.

“At first, I was going to try out for the quartermaster position, which is one of the main leaders for the group, but my leader asked me if I would be the scribe,” he said. “I have always liked writing. I could write a story out of the blue or lyrics to a song.”

During the jamboree, Carden said, “We’ll be doing a lot of outdoor activities and then there will be technology classes - all of these to help us earn merit badges.” And he added, “important life skills.”

“It’s been a good summer,” he said, smiling.”