Scouting Around

The Boy Scouts of America is in the process of making its merit badge pamphlets available for purchase on Amazon's Kindle platform.

Maybe the best part of the upcoming 23rd World Scout Jamboree is just getting the opportunity to meet and hang out with Scouts from around the world.

A couple of Maryland Boy Scouts used their Eagle projects to restore a local hiking trail.

For Michigan Boy Scout Geno Chandler, installing a sundial made for the perfect modern-day Eagle project.

A Boy Scout from Fort Worth, Texas, filmed his trip to Philmont, and the resulting video is terrific.

A Massachusetts Boy Scout took up the task of sprucing up a hospital courtyard.

When Jody Beringer completed his Eagle Scout project in 1990, he probably never thought that, 23 years later, his own daughter would be one of the beneficiaries.

A Michigan Scout recently installed 333 trees and one flagpole at a nearby airport.

For the last eight years, a Boy Scout in Granite Quarry, North Carolina, has led the town hall meetings in the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance.

An Ohio Boy Scout installed a new sidewalk to make playground equipment more accessible to kids in wheelchairs.

A high school competitive swimmer credits Scouting for his success.

Coming up in the September 2014 issue of Boys' Life: Dogs in Action!

A Pennsylvania Eagle Scout candidate has tackled a pair of projects at a nearby hiking and biking trail.

We love most of what we've seen at the Outoor Retailer show, but we especially love the companies with good stories behind them.

The BSA hosted a pinewood derby event at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, Utah, last night, and the results were impressive.

There are lots of products of interest to Scouts at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Scouts of Troop 101 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, recently earned their 50-miler awards by hiking one of the most famous trails in the country: The Appalachian Trail.

A South Dakota Eagle Scout has sold $25,000 worth of popcorn over the last 12 years. That's some serious salesmanship.

Tim Klotz's Eagle Scout project was a memorial dedicated to a local resident who fought in Vietnam and competed in the Olympics.

Garrett Becker, from Waukesha, Wisconsin, overcame cerebral palsy, epilepsy and blindness to earn the rank of Eagle Scout.

The Eagle Scouts Cycling Across America have made it past the halfway point. What an amazing summer vacation these guys have had.

A Georgia Boy Scout troop has adopted a Cub Scout pack in Guatemala, helping them with their pinewood derby, blue-and-gold banquet, and other functions.

Alex Hansen, an Eagle Scout from the Buffalo, New York, area, recently coordinated a project that hauled 180 pounds of trash from a local creek.

A Boy Scout has made his community safer by overseeing the installation of 16 street signs to better mark the roads for volunteer firefighters.

When a campground at a nearby state park was destroyed by fire, Troop 730 from Newbury Park, California, stepped up to help.

If someone was drowning, would you know what to do? Thanks goodness these three Scout brothers from Oklahoma knew exactly what to do when they rescued a man at a lake.

One of the best ways to beautify an area is to plant a garden. And if that garden can also be used to help educate kids? All the better.

A Boy Scout from Austin, Texas, saved his grandfather's life … all because he knew CPR.

Wisconsin Scout Christopher Hagen didn't stop working when he became an Eagle Scout. He went on to earn the prestigious National Outdoor Award.

The Scouts in Canyon, Texas, are certainly doing their part to help they're community. They've completed more than 1,000 hours of work at a local park.

Austin Van Black, from Troop 374 in Liberty, Missouri, has earned 140 merit badges. That's a lot of badges.

The Boy Scouts of America and Jack Link’s® have teamed up on a multiyear partnership that will make Jack Link’s “The Official Protein Snack of the Boy Scouts of America” and the organization’s four national high-adventure bases.

A Boy Scout troop in Hannibal, Missouri, has come up with a unique fundraiser tied into an annual frog-jumping contest based on a 100-year-old Mark Twain story.

The staffers at Boys' Life were thrilled when the nice folks who run the Reading Rainbow website asked us to write a guest blog post. Check out what we came up with.

When their Scoutmaster broke his leg on a rafting trip three miles from the nearest takeout, the Scouts of Troop 26 in Great Falls, Montana, knew exactly what to do.

A group of Varsity Scouts helped rescuers lift an SUV in their efforts to safe the passengers trapped inside.

The Eagle Scouts Cycling Across America team is chugging along. So far, the group of Eagle Scouts whose goal is to bike all the way across the country, has made it from California into Colorado.

A 16-year-old Eagle Scout has climbed the fifth- and sixth-hightest mountains in the world.