Almost as soon as it began, Scouting America’s merit badge program began to evolve to better meet the needs of the Scouts of the time. There are no longer merit badges for Master-at-Arms, Citrus Fruit Culture and Farm Arrangements, but there are merit badges for Digital Technology, Environmental Science and Multisport. Now the latest evolution […]

Three Scouts from Montville, New Jersey, have brought an international rocketry championship to the United States. Makayo Cheung, 15, Thomas Jenkins, 15, and Chase Eagan, 17, from Troop 74 in Montville took first place in the 2025 International Rocketry Challenge in Paris, France, last month. They had previously qualified for the event by winning the