Merit Badges

I was reading an article over at Make: where this guy's 9-year old was thrilled at the prospect of earning badges for various feats of technological wonder.  The good folks at Adafruit have created a series of patches in the spirit of Scouting Merit Badges, where kids are tasked with expressing proficiency of a particular skill and in return earning a badge to display on their uniform.  I plan on stealing this idea for the Junior Adventurer Society.  In fact, I see the Junior Adventurer Society becoming the next evolution of the Scouts.  Scouting has endured some black eyes in the past few decades as any organization of such size would.  The Junior Adventurer Society is open to both boys and girls and could function as viable alternative to both the boy and girl scouts.