While the Boy Scouts might have their ballyhooed robotics badge, it is actually the Girl Scouts who struck first in this pee-wee tech war with a working prosthetic hand that has helped a 3-year-old Iowa girl write with her fingerless hand.
The Boy Scouts, already no strangers to interesting, (if not controversial) modern-day badges like “video games,” have added what is an arguably more apt and useful skill to their badge-based repertoire: Robotics.
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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.
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