The Central Florida Zoo is hosting a program this Saturday for scouts to earn their Reptile & Amphibian Merit Badge.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scouts will have the opportunity to work on merit badges at Alpha Merit Badge University in Atlanta on Sept. 27. Photo courtesy of ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Boy Scouts of all ages from across the region came together for the 24th annual Merit Badge College. It's a marathon of hands-on events held at Johnson College in Scranton for scouts ...

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 ...

MASON — It may be cookie time for Girl Scouts, but it was college time for 120 Boy Scouts who descended upon Mason for Merit Badge College. Boy Scouts from New Hampshire and Massachusetts attended the ...

TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A local Eagle Scout is in a special club: he’s earned every single merit badge. Michael Romeo says he’s the 545th person in Boy Scout history to achieve that feat. There are ...

Less than 700 scouts in scouting history earned all of the merit badges, and just 15 of those were girls.

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 ...

I was never a Scout, but as I was growing up I was aware of the merit badges that could be earned by Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, and they always seemed pretty cool as indicators that someone was an ...

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, ...