14-year old super scout becomes first in UK to complete every badge

Inspirational teen Hannah Hunt has completed a staggering 82 activity badges and nine challenge badges, as well as the top award - the Chief Scouts Gold Award. And, amazingly, she gained most of her badges in the past year, last March she only had 15. While other youngsters are happy to sit at home glued to the tv or computer, Hannah has immersed herself in outdoor fun and adventure to get her hands on every badge in the scout section.

[@etherealhawk]

Props to her group for actually caring about badges. So many leaders who weren't scouts themselves are oblivious of how important being recognised for proficiency is to young people in a world where they may not be the best at sports or academics! This scout is a great example of how important it is to some people.

[@flashtheoriginal]

That's a hell of an achievement well done!

[@amberjae2553]

IT HELPS WHEN HER GROUP ACTUALLY BOTHERS WITH SCOUTS!!!!!!!

[@kevinerose]

So true. When I was in scouts, I got no help whatsoever. I ended up quitting out of frustration with the scout leadership.

[@Travel.with.josh.]

We just had fun and i got like 80% of my badges now im a young leader

[@lucasrbx.]

​@@kevineroseim still in scouts but nobe of us has done badges even the 14 year olds have NO badges and all they do their is just fire liting and knots like i want something else and beavers have movie night etc and last night cubs went to free dog we dont do anything like that

[@RetroActiveGM]

@@lucasrbx. I quit 10 years ago, it's nice to see precisely nothing has changed lmao

[@edthebritishguy]

I wish I didn't quit scouts so early. I moved to the USA. So I would have had to have left but I wish I was not so soon. Watching all these videos about scouts brings back memories

[@HCadrenaline]

When I was in scouts I just got bullied by everyone older than me, no regrets quitting

[@ellie135]

Jon thats just a shame - im a scout and its awesome 😊

[@TheExplosionRUs]

Same here, wish I quit sooner.

[@99kr13]

Experiences may vary.

[@samhobbs6517]

Same here tbh. One guy/a few people would just bully me and just act like idiots to me all the time. Don't regret quitting whatsoever.

[@MazinMMagid]

She got the platinum Trophy of completing every padge

[@etherealhawk]

That's not an award?

[@roundtheloopandback]

Very impressive they need to come up with some more badges :)

[@ES-wp4bi]

She doesn't look that pleased

[@CoreyChambersLA]

Want to hear more of the story. Where is Hannah Hunt now?

[@AlKholif]

it's very impressive. I am interesting to get it the badges. can you give some the badges for me.

[@ScouterStan]

Congratulations! YIS⚜

[@RetroActiveGM]

My scout group was exceedingly dull. We pretty much did the same shit every year, rarely did the activities form a part of badge progression and in order to get promoted, you had to be really boring and have no friends. If you made your own fun as I did, you didn't get promoted on the basis of immaturity - wasn't my fault we kept doing the same boring activites year after year. My experience meant that when the time came to be unceremoniously booted up to the Explorer Scouts, I politely declined and got the fuck outta there. No regrets.

[@amberxo6920]

What a sweat

[@keyboardcafe7899]

i completely agree i have been i scouts for 4 years doing challenges every week i have only came first place in one

[@TheGreenPond-nature]

🎉 well done

[@rawrdinosaurhoesssx6332]

Ik her

[@deehazell5280]

Well Done

[@lucasrbx.]

Also its not really an "achievement" you just go to scouts for 2 hours couple of month later you get them

[@butters3886]

Can girls do scouts

[@butters3886]

I can’t believe I commented that a year ago-

[@etherealhawk]

@@butters3886 yes they absolutely can. In fact, if you get the Queen's Guide Award and then transfer to Scouts you can also earn the Queen's Scout Award and be one of very few to do so!

[@benhowe788]

not to hate on this achievement but she hasn't got all her year badges.

[@kevinerose]

That is literally impossible to get 67 badges in a year doing it correctly. She would have had to get one new badge every week of the year. I'd have to assume the first 15 badges she started with were the common easy ones too. So the other 67 would be outside that realm requiring extensive research and demonstration of her knowledge of each of 67 new fields of study. An adult doing that as a full time job would have difficulty finishing that many in a year. No this sounds way too fishy.

[@emb314]

Scouts in uk is from 10 -14 so she has has 4 years to complete her badge work some are more simple than others and some you can do independently in your own time. So if your proactive enough and so are your leaders then it is possible to achieve.

[@kevinerose]

@@emb314 Okay I thought they said she did it all in 1 year. That is an amazing achievement in 4 years too. She definitely earned them either way.

[@kevinerose]

@@emb314 They say she had only 15 up to the last year. She may have had a good start on the other 67 and was able to wrap those up in the last year. The other way just sounds like insanity but she looks happy so that is the important thing.

[@adamantemrose2285]

She's a scout, so the badges are a little easier than explorer badges too, they don't require extreme knowledge and study, you can do most badges in a couple of weeks or less, although some specify 6-12 months of work

[@lucasrbx.]

Mate i dont even get badges like 1 14 year old has none and all they care about is fire liting and knots its getting old now beavers get to do movie night etc and last night cubs went to go to free dog we never get to do stuff like that

[@LeeFall]

Wait till she is 30, and wants this removed from the internet

[@ScottPC]

Sad..

[@averagewhovian]

No, hating on her is, tho, if you were....

[@99kr13]

No this is cool!

[@Dan-pz2cw]

Agreed, Is pretty sad tbh

[@etherealhawk]

It's not sad, she's learned more life skills at this point than most adults. How many people have parascended?

[@edthebritishguy]

I wish I didn't quit scouts so early. I moved to the USA. So I would have had to have left but I wish I was not so soon. Watching all these videos about scouts brings back memories

[@lukebeforeyougame145]

Ed the British Guy it's never too late to become a scout leader

[@etherealhawk]

Become a Scout Leader, speaking as one, it's great and very rewarding