Eagle Project Accomplishments

Accomplishments in my life have really given me a new understanding for myself and others and allowed for personal growth. One accomplishment has provoked this growth: being inducted into the National Honor Society. The society helps me to think differently about other people and learn of ways I could become a better person. This experience has shown me the importance of hard work, never giving up, social interaction, and helping others.

I took my time leisurely as I didn't start my project until 2016. I buckled down and started working on my project furiously. I remember calling companies to help donate materials to my project ¨Hello could you help me construct my Eagle Project for Boy Scouts? I would need 200 bricks and 4 yards of dirt.¨ Every phone call was getting me closer until I finally got to the day where I broke ground on my project. The day my troop and I broke ground it was 90 degrees and my friends were there helping me wearing work boots, jeans, long sleeve shirts, and gloves. We poured and mixed 10 bags of concrete weighing 80 pounds each without the weight of adding water too. We poured 4-5 gallons of water in for every 2 bags and mixed about 175 pounds of concrete in a wheelbarrow. The sweat was dripping down while the project was going up. It took 220 hours to plan, organize, and finish my project. I went back three days later once the concrete and brick set. I drilled four holes in the stone top and put on the plaque. My Eagle project was complete.

There are many skills a young man learns as he works toward the Eagle Scout Award. He learns to love and protect the outdoors. Through the various merit badges he earns, he is made aware of many career options and the education they require.

This Project was very useful because our team was able to help our community as well as our citizen’s in the area. Bonita Springs Charter School is a great organization to be a part of, and BSCS has many volunteer opportunities throughout the year. The Harvest Fest is the biggest event for fundraising at the school, which allows parents, families, and staff as well as the Bonita Springs community, to be a part of this great event. In addition, BSCS is a well-known school just miles away from Florida Gulf Coast University, which is very convenient for students that live either at the FGCU campus or in the surrounding area. Furthermore, BSCS is great at returning emails and phone calls for any volunteer position that students are looking to

The project I have chosen for my leadership project is the East Cooper Community Outreach program. This program is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1989 to assist victims after Hurricane Hugo. East Cooper Community Outreach, also known as ECCO, offers assistance to the many people in Mount Pleasant living at the poverty level, also known as the “working poor.” ECCO is vital to the community and we will learn about this organization’s origin and the significant ways it has contributed to the residents of East Cooper.

Nobody is great the first time they do something. Some are good, but they are nothing compared to those who have practiced for years. People only become great at something by practicing and making mistakes, because with every mistake, you learn another way how not to do something. Then when you know all your mistakes, it’s easy to avoid them. I, like every other human-being in existence, has made my fair-share of failures. Most of them a result of me being lazy, and most of them didn’t bother me all that much. Until one, during my Eagle Scout project proposal.

A long term goal of mine was to obtain the rank of Eagle Scout. It took 10 years of my life, countless service projects, tens of hours of community service, and my Eagle Scout Project.

My project idea began in August of 2014 when Clark Kistler and I had the idea to create a company that encompases every aspect of the outdoors. Reedy ridge is an outlet for people of all ages, but is geared more directly for high schoolers and college students. The hope is that the company can encourage people to get outside and stay outside. We sell shirts, car decals, wristbands, and hats. All of our products are designed by our staff, and inspired by events going on in our community. In my project I learned a ton about filming, and dove deeper into my love for the outdoors by showing off Reedy Ridge Outdoors.

I chose my project by understanding that I love to sew and help others. I could have made blankets as well but I believed that the children in the care of lutheran family services would appreciate the stuffed animals more. The organization that I donated to helps kids who are refugees, kids in foster care, homeless kids, and even run a adoption program. These kids will come into these programs with little to nothing to hold close to them, in fact they are alone with no parents or with parents who have no money and are incapable of caring for them. My goal for this project was to make the kids who have nothing feel that they have something. Give them a chance to feel loved, and have a friend who will never leave them behind. Also, I

My project was to run a personal items drive for the SEICCA office in my home area of Montpelier. SEICCA felt that they had a need for personal items and baby products. I based that need on where to request to put the collection boxes for the items along with a flyer for the needed items on the boxes. I left the boxes in the stores that agreed for a month. I posted on different local forums details of the drive, where the boxes are, what the need is for, and the items being requested.

Brief description of my Eagle Project: My Eagle project was to re-due the decking for the handicap ramp at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church here in Acton. This involved ripping up the old wood decking and disposing of it accordingly. Next, we attached “sister-boards” to the frame of the deck. Then, I attached brand new composite decking. I chose this as my project because everyday someone needs to use the ramp and it was very unsafe at the time and desperately needed an update. I financed this project by asking for donations at Saturday and Sunday masses, holding a back to schools party fundraiser, and lastly receiving an anonymous donation.

Another contrast between Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are the most noteworthy honors that a scout can be awarded. While being in any of these two Scouting organizations, a scout can earn numerous awards. The highest award that a scout can be presented with, nonetheless, differs between organizations. In Boy Scouts, the highest achievement a Boy Scout can receive is an Eagle Scout. Rather than an Eagle Scout being an award, it is the highest position in the rank system. Becoming an Eagle Scout takes much work and dedication to the organization. One receiving this award will have to meet several requirements. One must show that they are progressing in the program through their “leadership, service, and outdoor skills” (Trail to Eagle). Moreover, in order to become an Eagle Scout, a Boy Scout must first move forward in the ranking system. Although there are more than 130 merit badges that a Boy Scout can receive, they must earn 21 to be eligible become an

To give back to my community I decided to build a foot bridge for my local church that crosses over the spillway that is on the grounds there. I am working with the Boy scout troop I’m apart of to get the resources and help to build it. The project has been a success although I have not finished the bridge I have done a lot of work towards completing it like pouring concrete slabs for support and getting ready the metal and wood work to be added later. I selected this project because I’ve I am apart of boy scouts and the pastor of the Church it is for asked them if there was somebody looking for a project and I jumped at the opportunity and I also really like building things and working with that sort of stuff rather than desk work. This project taught me a lot about tools and carpentry and planning intricate things with a lot of people. One of the biggest obstacles was getting funding for the project and where to get the supplies. I got over this obstacle by going around asking local companies for donations and by luck one of the companies I went to actually donated all of the metal and helped me make a blueprint.

My senior project was a puppy house. A puppy house is a small shed that houses puppies that are older than four weeks. It has heat, water, and insulation. It is meant to house puppies until they are old enough to leave it. I built this puppy house for puppies that could no longer stay in a small cage with their mothers. I also built it because my grandparents needed it before winter.

The second project we were assigned that year and that I enjoyed was to research two authors from the 1800s or so, in collaboration with a partner that we got assigned to. For the first author we had the option to either create a power point presentation or create our own website about that particular author. My partner and I choose to build our