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Eagle Scout

Eagle Scout wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography

April 20, 2018 3

Ryan Kelly won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his searing image of the tragic events in Charlottesville, Va.

Eagle Scout

Michael Yerger, contestant on ‘Survivor: Ghost Island,’ is an Eagle Scout

April 18, 2018 2

Michael Yerger, a contestant on the 36th season of the CBS reality show Survivor, is an Eagle Scout. Yerger, who was 18 when Survivor: Ghost Island was filmed, is trying to be the youngest winner ever.

Cub Scouting

Jon Bon Jovi was a Cub Scout — and so was his son

April 13, 2018 6

Jon Bon Jovi’s boyhood experience with the Pinewood Derby was no bed of roses. But he made up for it when he had his own Cub Scout son.

Eagle Scout

Eagle honored with Medal of Valor bravery award at White House

April 3, 2018 1

Eagle Scout Sean Ochsenbein jumped into action at the scene of a head-on car collision two years ago, rescuing one driver. He recently received the highest decoration of bravery for public safety officers at a White House ceremony.

Eagle Scout

For a Winter Olympian, Eagle Scout Justin Krewson has a surprising favorite merit badge

February 8, 2018 0

Eagle Scout Justin Krewson is one of the world’s best at sliding 80 miles an hour down an icy track. He’s so good, in fact, that he’ll represent Team USA in luge doubles at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Eagle Scout

Eagle Scout Taylor Morris tells how Scouting prepared him for 2018 Winter Olympics

February 7, 2018 3

Now 26 and preparing to competing in his first Winter Olympics, Taylor Morris is grateful for the extra push from his parents. He says his time as a Scout and Venturer in the Great Salt Lake Council was transformative. 

Eagle Scout

These are the Eagle Scouts competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics

February 6, 2018 8

Years ago they earned the Eagle Scout medal, representing their commitment to Scouting. Now they’ll represent their country while trying to earn another medal: gold in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Eagle Scout

Philadelphia Eagles punter Donnie Jones is an Eagle Scout

January 30, 2018 7

The best punter in Philadelphia Eagles history, Donnie Jones earned Scouting’s highest honor in 1998 as part of the BSA’s Istrouma Area Council in Louisiana.

Alumni

Boyhood troop of President Gerald Ford and astronaut Roger Chaffee turns 100

January 25, 2018 3

Michigan Troop 215, which turns 100 years old this year, was the boyhood troop of astronaut Roger Chaffee and President Gerald Ford.

Famous People

Polish Boy Scout who escaped Auschwitz dies at age 98

January 9, 2018 10

When he was a young man, Kazimierz Piechowski, a Polish Boy Scout, embodied the “A Scout is Brave” point of the Scout Law while facing imminent death at the Auschwitz concentration camp. 

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