From scuba to courtroom, Berks teen completed every Scouting merit badge

From scuba to courtroom, Berks teen completed every Scouting merit badge

There’s a story — sometimes an adventure — behind each of Oliver Messner’s Scouting merit badges. All 142 of them. A Schuylkill Valley High School senior, Messner has earned every merit badge offered by Scouts BSA, formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America, placing him in an exceptionally small group nationwide. Officially, only 644 people are known to have accomplished the feat, according to David Beougher, scoutmaster of Troop 430, sponsored…