Merit badges have always been the heart of the Boy Scouts. They reflect the skills and knowledge considered important at the time. Unfortunately, some of these badges were discontinued, either because ...

April White; Research by Zoe Sayler and Samantha Spengler - Author, The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier At first glance, there’s something ...

John Hayes, 18, nabbed his 140th merit badge in bugling, after already securing badges in activities like cross-country skiing and aviation. He credits STEM programs with shaping his skills as he ...

Chemist Kristin Omberg felt annoyed as she dug through her parents’ garage, searching for a nongalvanized iron nail and copper sulfate. The items were surprisingly hard to come by. Yet Omberg’s ...

Scouting America, the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, is giving scouts the chance to earn two merit badges that engage new technology: one in artificial intelligence, and another in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a story — sometimes an adventure — behind each of Oliver Messner’s Scouting merit badges. All 142 of them. A Schuylkill ...

No one can question Grant Bagne’s dedication to the Boy Scouts. The 17-year-old Valencia High School senior of Troop 241 in Orange achieved a rare feat in November when he earned the last of every ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Girl Scouts from tiny Daisies to teen Ambassadors may earn 23 new badges focused on science, technology, engineering and math. It's the largest addition of new badges in a decade for ...

It's official-- and weirdly radical-- the Boy Scouts of America will now welcome girls. The Scouts announced on Wednesday that it will soon drop the word "boy" from ...