LUBBOCK, Texas— Scouting America gives children the chance to achieve great accomplishments.
Each life lesson and skill a scout earns is accompanied by a badge that tracks their progress through the program, and Olivia Hodge is one scout who’s earned 141 of them.
“I always loved merit badges. And it was like a funny joke, like, “why don’t you get it all?” And I was like, “you know what? I could try!” And then after that, I started going after it,” said Hodge…