The 12-year-old from Palmdale is one of 1.8 million Girl Scouts nationwide who will have the opportunity starting in 2018 to adorn their vests, tunics and sashes with merit badges for information ...

These new Girl Scout badges have real merit. The Girl Scouts of the USA kicked off its summer recruiting season on Tuesday by announcing 30 new badges that will get girls ages five to 18 building r… ...

Shouldn`t life have merit badges, like Girl Scouts? Sure, you have your minks and Rolexes and Testarossas that testify to wealth, and your Oscars and Grammies and Pulitzers that recognize certain ...

Madeleine Corbin of Middletown, who is 10 years old, knows what she would do if she was allowed to explore outer space. She wrote an essay about it.“3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF! Bloop, my rocket, took off!

Be that as it may, nothing stands still, even Scouting organizations, and the Girl Scouts have recently introduced new merit badges for the 21 st century. The new badges are not exotic because ...

The instructions from the new, soon-to-be-released manual for the chemistry merit badge say the indicator can be made by ...

PIÑON CANYON, Colo. - An air horn blared sporadically while Girl Scouts swarmed all over a Stryker Medical Evacuation Vehicle, up-armored Humvee and Buffalo Mine-Protected Clearance Vehicle at ...

The program partnered with the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, stopping by Camp Whip Poor Will this week to help girls age 11 to 16 learn about skills like carpentry, welding, plumbing, and masonry.

There is, however, one thing Boy Scouts are allowed to do that Girl Scouts are not: fly in small aircraft as part of an aviation badge. In scouting, merit badges are created and approved by local ...

I was never a Scout, but as I was growing up I was aware of the merit badges that could be earned by Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, and they always seemed pretty cool as indicators that someone was an ...