Cameras

Would You Be Able To Earn A Boy Scouts’ Photography Merit Badge?

Believe it or not, but the photography merit badge – awarded to Boy Scouts who showed they’d studied and completed the tasks required – turns 100 this year. The requirements have been updated along the years, and are surprisingly complex:


October 22, 2010

Tiny Boy Scout Launches 3130 Rockets To Smash World Record

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You know what’s cool? Launching 965 model rockets at once. You know what’s cooler? Launching 3130 model rockets at once. Boy Scout Jacob Smith honoured the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts by blowing away the previous world record.


October 3, 2010

How Do You Teach Boy Scouts About Downloading Music?

The woefully out of touch writers of Scouting Magazine, the official magazine of Boy Scouts of America, suggest that parents only listen to CDs they buy from stores, because when you listen to legal MP3s, you risk confusing the boy scouts.


April 28, 2010
Gaming

Cub Scouts Give Up Entirely, Offer Video Game Badge

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.


April 19, 2010

Boy Scouts Locate Geocaching Merit Badge

Congratulations are in order for the Boy Scouts, who have figured out a cool way to combine the old with the new using a “geocaching badge” for Scouts.