Merit Badge University offers Scouts the chance to work on merit badges in interest areas such as STEM, outdoor skills, first aid, citizenship, personal development, and more.

"The Merit Badge program itself is based around the premise that it is a way for scouts to explore different things and different opportunities such as welding, woodworking, plumbing, all that ...

To reach the rank of an Eagle Scout, one needs 21 merit badges, which Goyal was able to rack up with no problem. He and his mother, who encouraged him to get into the Scout program in the first ...

Caiden became passionate about the merit badge program in late 2019. As he started earning merit badges, he quickly recognized the benefit of gaining knowledge and skills in so many areas.

HONOKAA — Camp Honokaia welcomed more than 40 Scouts from across two islands this spring for a dynamic short-term merit badge camp, ... Recreational programming also played a big role in ...

This year’s merit badge program took place on March 2. The Scouts were welcomed by Lake County Circuit Judge Joseph V. Salvi, and associate judges Daniel L. Jasica and Christopher B. Morozin.

In the Boy Scout program, merit badges allow scouts to investigate nearly 140 different areas of knowledge and skills.

Scouts have gotten a helping hand for more than two decades to obtain their merit badges. Starting at 8:30 a.m. and going ...