GLEN JEAN, W.Va. — From sports and crafts to science and the arts, there are over 135 different kinds of merit badges scouts can earn, and the opportunity to do so is given to them during the 10-day ...
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.
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, ...