National Youth Leadership Training, often called NYLT, is the current youth leadership development training offered by the Boy Scouts of America. The program is conducted at the council level over six days for Scouts, Venturers, and Sea Scouts. The program has been open to all genders since 2010. This training is a part of the national organization's leadership training program and is designed to mirror themes found in Woodbadge, which is the BSA program for adult leadership training. History In 1949 Scouts from 24 councils in 16 states formed a Junior Leader Training Troop at Philmont Scout Ranch for a forty-day training program in leadership and Scoutcraft. In 1950 the "Junior Leaders' Training Course was developed to give intensive training in Scouting skills and techniques to select Explorers. Each is trained with the end in view that he in turn will train other junior leaders. The course has four parts. The first is centered around studying leadership methods, organization, patrol method, Explorer crews, troop meetings, and camping skills. The second part deals with teaching the same skills. The third sees the trainees actually living the patrol method, using the Scouting skills. The fourth part is devoted to a model junior leaders’ conference, and projects in nature lore, special Scoutcraft skills, emergency service, and personal and group service.” In 1952 at Philmont Scout Ranch 270 participants and at Schiff Scout Reservation 436 participants completed junior leader training camps. At Schiff the program lasted for twelve days, a practice that continued until 1972. In 1974 the Boy Scouts of America published the Troop Leadership Development Staff Guide. In the 1980s and 1990s, the curriculum was called Junior Leader Training (JLT). Building upon the base of JLT, in 2003 and 2004, NYLT was piloted across the country and rolled out in 2005. In 2009 the practice of adding names like Pine Tree and Golden Acorn to the program was supposed to end. Some councils ignore that policy and use Grey Wolf NYLT, Top Gun National Youth Leadership Training, Silver Bear NYLT, Golden Falcon NYLT, Timberline NYLT, and Brownsea NYLT. In 2010, Boy Scout and Venturing youth leadership training merged and the curriculum language was modified to reflect the combined nature of the program. Program Participants are organized in teams of no more than eight, mirroring a typical local patrol and troop. A staff member, called a troop guide, is assigned to each patrol