There’s a story — sometimes an adventure — behind each of Oliver Messner’s Scouting merit badges. All 142 of them. A Schuylkill Valley High School senior, Messner has earned every merit badge offered ...

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 ...

Young people involved in Scouting famously earn badges for things like fishing, music and even nuclear science. It takes 21 merit badges to become an Eagle Scout. That's Scouting's top rank. And as St ...

Only 21 merit badges are required to advance out of Eagle Scouts, the highest rank in Scouting America. One dedicated Missouri scout has earned 140—that was every merit badge offered by Scouting ...

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. Jimmy ...