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, ...
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, ...
Alexander LaVerdiere admits that he is, on occasion, labeled an overachiever. “I’ve been called that by some of the guys in my troop,” he said. The Dauphin County 17-year-old graduated from ...
At Scouting America’s Merit Badge University on Saturday on the University of Missouri campus, Scouts had more than 50 career-related classes to choose from. “There were almost 1,000 participants, ...
Submitted photo From left, Lily Rich, 16, of Canfield; Gabriela Wilson, 16, of Youngstown; Audrey Gensburg, 14, of Weathersfield; and Paige Cooley, 14, of Austintown, all members of Canfield Troop ...
Around age 11, Briar McLellan rose to the rank of Boy Scout and immediately aspired to earn every merit badge in the book — an ambition that would require mastery of scuba diving, basket-weaving, dog ...
These are just a few of the topics George and Andrew Atala learned about the last few years in achieving a pretty rare feat: the two Livonia boys have or are about to earn every single Boy Scouts of ...