A Moore County youth is among more than 30,000 Boy Scouts from around the nation who have set up camp in Virginia for 10 days for the organization’s centennial anniversary.

The national Boy Scout Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill began July 26 and runs through Wednesday.

Stephen Stewart, of Pinehurst, is serving as a national hometown news correspondent to The Pilot and will be filing blog reports from the jamboree grounds. Stewart, 15, will be a sophomore at The O’Neal School this fall.

“I am very active in numerous extracurricular activities,” Stewart said in an e-mail. “I am on The O’Neal soccer team, basketball team and the track team.”

Scouting is important to Stewart. He is an active member of Troop 7 in Pinehurst — one of the oldest Scout troops in the state. He started in Scouting as a Tiger Cub when still a first-grader. Currently, he holds the rank of Life Scout and is working on completing the requirements needed to receive his Eagle Scout award.

“I am very excited about this opportunity in that it will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouting,” he said. “One of the things that I am looking forward to most is meeting various Scouts from all over the world and ‘trading patches’ with them. I am certain that I will make many new friends that I will have for many years to come.”

Sending reports back to his hometown will be one of Stewart’s duties — his hometown good turn — during his days at the mega-camp.

“While at the national jamboree, I will be serving as one of the national hometown news correspondents,” he says. “This role will allow me to compile stories of my experiences there and bring them back to share with the people from my community via The Pilot. I look forward to sharing my experiences in the near future.”