Scouts explore nuclear science at SRS museum

On a recent Saturday morning at the Savannah River Site Museum, a group of Scouts leaned over tables scattered with Geiger ...
Orlando Sentinel

Pictures: Scouts visit Patrick Space Force Base for rare merit badge

Lawrence Wolfe, a chemist at the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) at Patrick Space Force Base explains how a mass spectrometer operates to Matthew Beckman and members of his troop ...
Orlando Sentinel

Space Coast’s global nuclear tracking center gives Scouts a sneak peek

PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE — Most of the material that makes it to the nuclear tracking lab at Patrick Space Force Base doesn’t come in “hot.” The annual load of roughly 15,000 samples from monitoring ...
Richmond

Local Boy Scouts go nuclear at VCU

Thanks to a program coordinated by Bon Air native and Eagle Scout Daniel Metz, about 30 Boy Scouts from across the region recently spent a day earning nuclear science merit badges at the Virginia ...
NPR

An Eagle Scout in Missouri has earned every possible merit badge — 140 of them

Young people involved in Scouting famously earn badges for things like fishing, music and even nuclear science. It takes 21 merit badges to become an Eagle Scout. That's Scouting's top rank. And as St ...