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Lizardi, Ryan, Ph. D, Yucel, Ibrahim, Ph. D
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Spring 2025
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2025-05
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The University of Scouting is a signature training event hosted annually by the Allegheny Highlands
Council of Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America), offering Scouts and adult
leaders a wide range of educational opportunities. As the event has grown, maintaining
consistency, knowledge transfer, and quality year over year has become increasingly difficult,
especially amid volunteer turnover and limited documentation. This capstone addresses those
challenges through the design of a modern, role-based digital playbook.
The University of Scouting artifact functions as both a planning tool and onboarding resource for
future event planners and participants. It applies design principles from instructional design, user centered
design, and information architecture to ensure clarity, usability, and scalability. While
Scouting America has developed playbooks for other activities, many follow outdated formats, and
lack modern visual and interactive design. This artifact offers a more forward thinking alternative to
traditional design that is aimed at not only improving planning for the local event, but also at
serving as a model other Councils can adopt.
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Przybylak, T. (2025). The University of Scouting playbook: A resource for scouting America: A master’s thesis presented to the Department of Communications & Information Design in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute.