Aha Experience

It all started 11 years ago, I was a young boy who wanted to build and race a pinewood derby car. It was only 6 years later when I had crossed over into Boy Scouts from Cub Scouts. My friends and I walk across the stage looking at the hundred plus people

Providing service reminds me to be grateful for all I have, and that I don’t have to feel helpless by seeing bad things in the world when I can do something to help. Girl Scouts, of which I’ve been a member since age five, instilled in me a love of service. The Girl Scout Promise, recited at the beginning of each meeting, is a simple reminder of what we should strive for daily. “On my honor, I will try, to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law.” Through pet adoption days, canned food drives, and clothing drives, I have learned that I can make a difference to others, and that even small actions can make an impact. Beyond organizing service projects, serving people can be as simple as sitting

Serving others is a down deep way of learning more about yourself and helping others to see past themselves. Our Business and Professional Communication class participated in several service projects, which were interesting and exciting to be involved with helping others. As I am studying the major courses of Early Childhood/Special Education, our group project with the “Big Brothers Big Sister” program was very memorable to me. It was wonderful to have fun and participate in various activities with the kids. The environment was caring due to everyone helping each other accomplish different tasks. It was a great feeling to be able to share our time, talents, and hearts with the kids.

I am a member of Boy Scout Troop 66 and I was librarian for two years and I am currently the troop guide. As the troop guide my responsibility is to help the new and younger scouts get used to the troop because it is different from Cub Scouts. I help teach them new skills and basic boy scout skills such as First Aid, knots, lashings, and more. I also assist in planning and running the activities that take place at the weekly troop meetings. I have helped teach the scouts about sprain and strains and how to treat them. I also helped teach the scouts what is supposed to be in the patrol bins that we take on every camping trip. My goal as the troop guide is to help the newer scouts learn and gain more knowledge and I will do

Rather than being lead by the older scouts, it was me and my friends who began to run the troop. The ones that I had looked up to had mostly left, and, almost seemingly without warning, it was our turn to lead, and mentor the new scouts. I was a troop guide, then an Assistant senior patrol leader, and then the quartermaster. All the while, I continued on my own to advance steadily through the scouting ranks. However, with these greater responsibilities, came greater enjoyment to be had out of scouting. We went to summer camps, high adventure camps, and dozens of troop-sponsored camping trips. I was nominated for, and accepted into, the Order of the Arrow, the Honor Society of Scouting. After being nominated by my Troop, I participated in a service project where we slept under the stars, followed by a period of silence and

One service project I am conducting was inspired by an issue that affects my family, as well as the family's of others students who attend my school, a virtual public school. Because of restrictions, student enrollment was denied to prior homeschooled and private school students. Seeing how my own brother was denied this opportunity, I decided to take action and rally for a solution this problem. Through research, I discovered B-894, a bill holding the potential to remove enrollment restrictions from our school.

To ensure that our project would be very successful as a group we discussed how could we make a big impact. This discussion leaded us to deciding to dedicate our service-learning project to helping Veterans and how we could help them. We establish a connection with VET HOUSE, this connection was established though Johnnie Mapples who is a veteran and was associated with VET HOUSE. We connected Mr. Willard Smith who is the coordinator for VET HOUSE, he informed us what was needed and the current numbers of people that are currently in the program. From establishing the connection and gathering information on how many people needed help we discussed what we would like to do for them and how can we accomplish it. We decided to collect personal

Scouting has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I joined in the First grade as a tiger cub and I was super excited. I remember getting my uniform and wanting to wear it everywhere. I was so excited to be a part of it. I have grown up through scouting and can’t picture my life without it. It has shaped me into the man I am today. I am currently working on my Eagle Scout. I want to continue helping the troop even after I finish. I will be involved in scouting for the rest of my life.

If I am a Service Learning project coordinator, I would pick taking care of elderly. When people willing to invest a lot of time in taking care of elderly, they receive unimaginable knowledge in return. For college students who participate, this project will help them developing patience, seeing things differently, and learning another's perspective. When I was taking care of my grandma, she taught me principles that I couldn't learn it myself. Because they lived longer and experienced things we never experience which take their whole life to learn, and saved me many time to learn so. The purpose of Service Learning is to combine learning with community service activities that get students involved and applying the experiences to their academic.

The act of service that meant the most to me was my Eagle Scout Project. I began planning it in November of 2014 and finished April 2015. It was one of the largest things I planned from concept to final product. Before my Eagle Scout Project, In my town, the park is one of the most used venues in our community and most of it is beautiful but in front of the bathrooms was an area that was overgrown and had corn growing in it. I had to go through many steps of bureaucracy just to get approval, plan everything in detail, and execute the project effectively.

I am an Eagle scout candidate, life scout currently working on eagle project with plenty of time before 18th birthday, and plan to achieve Eagle scout in the upcoming months. The Boy scout Troop I have been Senior patrol for the last four years has doubled in size under my leadership.

Scouting is probably one of the first stories I should tell, as it has become the moral bedrock for my entire life and personal philosophy. I could write an entire book office individual stories from my time as a youth and the lessons it taught me, but in the interest of time I will condense it. Scouting taught me to look out for myself and others through countless trainings and even just weekend camping trips. Personal responsibility, dedication, and a dependable work ethic were all things I learned on my trail to becoming an Eagle Scout and particularly during my years working on the Canyon Camp Staff. I served

As I Boy Scout and former member of scouting’s national honor society I have dedicated the last ten years of my life to the cheerful service of others. Along this amazing journey I earned the high honor of eagle scout. To earn such an esteemed rank I had to demonstrate leadership and service towards others through a large community project. As a result I undertook the complete restoration of a garden at Saint Timothy’s Episcopal church called Founders Green which took three years to complete. Through those three years I I took on more responsibility at the age of twelve some teenagers have in their entire high school career. These responsibilities included laboring over a desk drafting a schematic for the entire project, followed months of

The most important experience of my life so far was participating in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). I joined my troop when I was eleven and rose through the ranks to become an Eagle Scout when I was sixteen. That title should indicate a person with leadership experience, willingness to try new things, excellence of character, and commitment to both the community of Scouting and the world as a whole.

When I was younger, I was watching a parade and saw the Boy Scouts walk down the street with the American flag. I was fascinated as to who they were and what they stood for. When Dave Weber came to my school to promote Cub Scouts, I became interested in what Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts was. This became an opportunity for me to try something new. So I told my Dad, who had also been in scouts when he was a kid, I wanted to join Cub Scouts. We went to the first Tiger cub meeting the following week. I immediately fell in love and have never looked back. I completed all my ranks in Cub Scouts earning my Arrow of Light before crossing over from Webelos to Boy Scouts. Once in Boy Scouts, I very quickly moved up the ranks.