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, ...

THOMASVILLE — If there were a merit badge for earning merit badges, Colton Morris would have it. The Thomasville teenager, who has been in scouting for more than a decade, completed a rare feat ...

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — For an East Tennessee Eagle Scout who is really good at playing the piano, it’s another musical instrument offered as a merit badge that had him worried for a while. In the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A West Knoxville Eagle Scout has achieved a rare accomplishment. He has earned every merit badge the scouting program offers. To achieve the Eagle rank, scouts are required ...

Inspired by another Scout, Christopher Jones began pursuing all the badges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The backpacking and trumpet merit badges were among the most challenging, requiring extensive ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — The Boy Scouts of America took over a college campus in Lackawanna County on Saturday. The event at Johnson College in Scranton was the Scouts' 25th Annual Merit Badge College. The ...