For Eagle Scout Max Plessinger, learning skilled trades within Scouting opened doors to a fulfilling, profitable career. His merit badge sash displays the Automotive Maintenance, Farm Mechanics, Plumbing and Welding badges. The 21-year-old now works as a diesel mechanic, doesn’t have any school debt and is saving to buy a house next year. It’s a […]

The Scouts BSA program works best when it’s guided by adults who implement the program as it was designed to be implemented. The official Scouts BSA Troop Self-Assessment tool is designed to help ensure that you’re doing just that. The Troop Self-Assessment program is a series of questions on a variety of Scouts BSA-related topics.

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