Only 21 merit badges are required to advance out of Eagle Scouts, the highest rank in Scouting America. One dedicated ...

Sept. 16 (UPI) --Scouts from underserved communities will get a chance to earn up to 40 merit badges in one day at Morehouse University in Atlanta. The event, Alpha Merit Badge University, was created ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) – Brandon Barrett, a St. Louis-area Eagle Scout who recently turned 18, has joined an elite group of scouts by earning all 141 merit barges offered by Scouting America. From the ...

George "Georgie" Green, 15, earned all 138 Merit Badges. Scouting America said he is among the less than 1% of scouts who earn all of the badges. Leaders said the Merit Badge program is designed to ...

Merit badge applies STEM principles in a way that’s fun and interesting When people think of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), they envision activities like camping, knot-tying, and canoeing, but soon, ...

NEWEST YOUNG MEN TO DO IT. I USED TO BE A BOY SCOUT. THESE BADGES AND THIS SASH DO NOT BELONG TO ME. THEY ACTUALLY BELONG TO GEORGE GREEN. THIS WHITEFIELD ACADEMY JUNIOR IS ONE OF FOUR KENTUCKIANS WHO ...

ANDOVER - An Eagle Scout from Andover, Massachusetts has joined an elite club. Jimmy Poirier has earned all 139 merit badges available to Boy Scouts. Less than one-percent of all Eagle Scouts go on to ...

A running joke with my department chairs, when I was a dean, involved the awarding of merit badges for the accomplishment of a particularly thorny task that the outside world (outside of academia, ...