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Mountain biking added as an option in Cycling merit badge

July 15, 2013 12

Cycling merit badge now includes a mountain biking option. Scouts can choose between road cycling or mountain biking for this Eagle-required badge.

Sustainability merit badge requirements released

July 15, 2013 56

Updated, Aug. 22: Leaders, check out Scouting magazine’s latest Merit Badge Clinic focusing on the Sustainability merit badge. In this column, writer Mark Ray speaks to the four members of the Sustainability Merit Badge Task Force,

The most- and least-popular merit badges of 2012, and what that info tells us

April 22, 2013 141

Which merit badges had Scouts rushing to counselors and Moms and Dads rushing to the sewing machine last year? Here’s your answer. In January 2012, I presented a list of 2011’s most- and least-popular merit

Here’s one swimming record you could actually break

April 15, 2013 15

Can’t swim the 100-meter butterfly in less than 50 seconds? That’s OK — nobody but Michael Phelps can. But I did just hear about a swimming record you and your Scouts do have a chance to

Wood Badge Wednesdays: Puerto Rico edition

March 27, 2013 29

Wood Badge builds lifelong memories, regardless of the setting. So whether you’re at Philmont Scout Ranch (where I’ll be staffing a course this summer), a council camp in the midwest, or even an island in

A new recipe: What to expect from the Cooking merit badge redesign

March 13, 2013 42

What’s on the menu for the revamped Cooking merit badge, served up later this year? The BSA’s volunteer-led team isn’t ready to dish on the main course just yet, but I was authorized to give

Viewership numbers in on ‘Are You Tougher?’ as date for next episode nears

March 8, 2013 8

More than 439,000 households tuned in to the premiere of Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout? on Monday, meaning 439,000 homes got a firsthand look at the excitement Scouting offers boys and girls. (Read my

Charlotte troop’s ties to submarine run deep

January 31, 2013 5

For sailors aboard the USS Charlotte patrolling hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, home can feel light years away. But thanks to an ongoing relationship with a Boy Scout troop based in the submarine’s namesake

Enter daily to win one of 10 hammocks

July 2, 2012 4

We’ve all been there: waking up in a haze of discomfort after sleeping on a rocky, uneven surface in a tent. It’s not pleasant. Derek Hansen says it doesn’t have to be that way. Instead,

Points in the Paint: Ohio troop’s trailer a slam dunk for the BSA

June 18, 2012 19

Want to get your unit’s recruiting up to speed? Consider hauling your “Join Scouting” message everywhere your pack, troop, team, or crew travels. Start by taking a page from Canton, Ohio, Troop 4’s playbook, which