Since it opened in May 2022, the new Skip and Alex Lange Innovation Center at the Camp Belzer campus in Lawrence has had an estimated 8,000 kids come through its doors.
The center broke ground on the center, part of a $7 million project, in late 2020. Center Director Rob Tankersley said one of the center’s goals is to introduce kids to Scouting.
“The Boy Scouts of America as the overarching organization, specifically, the Crossroads of America Council here in Central Indiana, has owned the camp here for just over 100 years,” he said. “This facility was originally an indoor center for Scouting activities. And we’re talking about the bones of this facility being better than 80 years old at this stage. So the goal about four years ago was to turn it back into an indoor (activity center). All of those activities and adventures you think of when you think Boy…
