A friend at work introduced this to me and I introduced it to my daughter. I’m bringing it up because they have a great Junior Program for kids starting at the age of 14. I think this is a great opportunity to do something challenging and really build confidence.  If your son has any thoughts of going to the Air Force Academy, it wouldn’t hurt being part of something like this.

 http://www.soargbsc.com/juniors.php

I also learned about a program in Texas affiliated with a venture crew.  Crews don’t have to be high adventure camping focused. There are crews involved in civil war reenactment, emergency response, railroading, you name it. If somebody was interested in starting a crew either up here in the Boston area or really anywhere in the US, you may want to consider an affiliation with a flight club. Keeping a crew together is hard work, something interesting like this might really get kids in and then keep them interested.

This a link to a brief mention of the Texas program:

http://www.texassoaring.org/Documents/VentureProgram.asp