Believe it or not, but the photography merit badge—awarded to Boy Scouts who showed they’d studied and completed the tasks required—turns 100 this year. The requirements have been updated ...

Merit badge counselors offer their time ... Nuclear Science, Oceanography, Photography, Plumbing, Public Health, Pulp and Paper, Safety, Skating, and Textile. This event starts at 8:15 a.m ...

But it did create the occasional scheduling hiccup — like when Hayes' partner for completing his merit badge in home repairs turned out to live in Japan. "There's a gigantic time difference ...

An Andover Eagle Scout has earned every available merit badge — a rare accomplishment that, in over a century of scouting in the United States, has been achieved by only a few hundred people.

WESTFIELD — The first merit badge Sean McMahon earned as a Boy Scout was for basket weaving. Since then, he’s earned an additional 65 merit badges — a level of success only a few Scouts achieve.

SCRANTON, Pa. — Scouts have gotten a helping hand for more than two decades to obtain their merit badges. Starting at 8:30 a.m. and going until 5 p.m., the Northeastern Pennsylvania Council of ...

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 ...