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Georgia Boy Scout, 16, earns all 137 merit badges...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By ANDREA BLANCO

A Georgia teenager became one of the less than 500 people in the history of the Boy Scouts to have earned all 137 badges the organization can award. 

Omkar Tamhane, 16, from Feryth County, completed the merit by excelling in areas ranging from athletic activities such as canoeing, to intellectual ones like public speaking and nuclear science.

From programming, moviemaking and engineering to fire safety, he quite literally knows how to do everything.  

Tamhane, a rising junior at Lambert High School, became a member of the Boy Scouts troop 27 in Atlanta Area Council, Northern Ridge District, when he was in the second grade.

He has come a long way since he started his journey as a Cub Scout, becoming one of the few people in the 111 years and 110 million of scouts in the history of the  organization to earn every merit badge. 

In the Fall of 2019, he moved to the highest rank in the scouts, an Eagle Scout, and earned his last badge by backpacking in Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico earlier this year.    

'It was truly amazing to backpack in New Mexico. I spent 14 days with my Troop, and I met people from all across America,' Tamhane told Forsyth County News

Speaking to WSB-TV Atlanta, the teenager proudly wore his vest filled with badges, as he humbly encouraged others to join the scouts. 

'Honestly, I feel like anyone can complete this. 

It's truly an eye-opening journey,' Tamhane said. 

The Forsyth County Board of Commissions recognized him during a meeting on August 5.  


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