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Sarasota Eagle Scout earns ever possible merit badge from Boy Scouts of America
Kimberly Kuizon reports
SARASOTA, Fla. - Eagle Scout Owen Eakle can tell you something about every merit badge he s earned. I ve done a little bit of a lot of things. It just teaches me to broaden my horizons basically, he said.
The 16-year-old from Out of Door Academy can think of a memory from every badge. First aid was his first. His favorites include nuclear science and sailing. I like to just remember one thing from each just so it kind of stays in my mind, he said.
And more are coming, says her scoutmaster, Justine Gonzalez.
“This is a pretty big deal,” Gonzalez says. “This will be the first of many.”
Wolfe earned the rank in February after working on it for two years. She’s one of about 1,000 U.S. girls who made up the first wave of female Eagle Scouts awarded last month.
It wasn’t easy, Wolfe admits.
“It was a lot of work,” she says. “I actually didn’t think I was gonna make it.”
But she did. And her parents couldn’t be prouder. Especially her dad a former Eagle Scout, himself.