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Scout earns all 129 badges
Feat puts him in select group
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Nick Davis, an Eagle Scout, holds up a sash that features some of the 129 merit badges he has earned. - photo by Autumn McBride
At age 18, Nick Davis has a background in dentistry, bugling and scuba diving, along with more than 100 other skills ranging from the useful to the obscure.The Forsyth County Eagle Scout has earned all 129 Boy Scout merit badges available to him, one of only a handful of young men to achieve the feat.Davis, a senior at Forsyth Central High School, estimated he spent more than 1,000 hours working toward the criteria for the badges.“It was definitely worth it. I enjoyed every moment,” he said. “I got to do a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t normally get to do.”After obtaining all the activity pins as a Cub Scout, Davis set his sights on the Boy Scout badges during his first day in the new troop.His Scoutmaster at the time chuckled thinking of how much work it would involve, said Davis’ father, Fred, who added the leader “didn’t know Nick that well then.”Davis started at age 12 with his radio badge and finished by earning the inventing badge about two weeks before his 18th birthday, when he would no longer be eligible for badges.For his final badge, he invented a mat for the bathroom floor that lights up when stepped on.