You wouldn’t buy a car without testing it on the road first. The same concept is behind Scouting America’s merit badge development process. Launched a year ago, the Scouts BSA Test Lab encourages Scouts and Scouters to kick the tires and offer feedback before a merit badge goes from concept to production. Here’s how it

Scouts BSA National Director Garfield Murden should get a merit badge for all the work it takes to track merit badge data. He recently released the 2025 rankings. A few items of note: In the Top 10 Least Earned chart, you’ll find Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. These badges were introduced in mid-October, so they didn’t

Sixty-seven down, 30 to go. Scouting America historians Andrew Coe and Steve Miller are attempting to collect every staff list from the past 97 seasons at Camp Horseshoe, a Scouting America camp in Rising Sun, Maryland. They’ll be added to thousands of items already collected for the Horseshoe Scout Reservation Alumni Association (HSRAA) virtual museum.

Dozens of feet under the water’s surface, a Sea Scout, clad in scuba gear, kicks toward the ocean floor. He’s helping study the massive iceberg he’s swimming by — just one of hundreds he will see in the frigid waters of Antarctica. He hopes his research will unlock a new understanding about the floating masses