Personal Narrative: My Eagle Scout Project

Being a leader is being a role model and striving to make a positive impact on those around you. In order to be a successful leader, you have to put yourself second and your peers first. For example, my younger sister and I both play softball. I have played on several travel teams during the summer and this year, she tried out for her first competitive travel team. I was asked to aid her by helping her with the mechanics of the game. During this time, I sacrificed my time to put the needs of another person before my own and it paid off, because she made the team and I got to witness the results of my

I remember seeing my pinewood derby car going down the track; it was silver, blue letters on it that said sonic and black wheels that sounded like a hot wheels car going down a track. I was only 6 years old when that happened. Now I stand in front of the board representing Boy Scouts of America, ¨Congratulations, you are officially an Eagle Scout.¨ It hits me all the sudden like a wave hitting a sea wall, an 11 year journey just ended and it’s time to see the outcome.

The year is 2016, it is a cold and rainy Tuesday afternoon. My father, John Carey, and I are driving to Sherman, Texas. Once I reach Sherman I will go before a board of leaders in order to achieve the ranking of Eagle Scout. I am incredibly nervous, anxious, but really I am ready to get into the meeting and show them that I am trustworthy and capable of achieving such an honor. As we pull up to the church where the meeting will be held, I realize that I could possibly not be ready. I have gone over my project, which they will be asking questions about, a million times. Not to mention I am the one who orchestrated the planning and everything about the project, so I am very familiar with it. Yet, I sit and wonder what if they ask that one question

I have exemplified leadership in a couple different ways through out my high school career. One way of this is through leading my team members in cheerleading. I look out for my new team members, especially since they are learning a lot of new material. This can be stressful and difficult at times. I know this feeling since I was once brand new to the Mason Cheerleading Program and didn’t know any of the material. If I

Leadership has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I have always found myself taking on leadership roles, whether it be by volunteering or coordinating different projects for the benefit of my school or community. Taking on leadership positions has allowed me to develop skills in communication, delegation, and managing multiple tasks and deadlines. As a member of National Honor Society and an officer of Student Council, I am presented with various opportunities to show my leadership skills. For example, I have been in charge of planning multiple pep assemblies for my school. Helping coordinate blood and canned food drives, angel trees, as well as organize an abundance of fundraising events has created a sense of reliability

I am very proud of being an Eagle Scout. In order to achieve the rank of eagle, I had to put many hours into my scouting career and constantly look for ways to lead and help serve my troop and the community. I am also proud of my project, which betters the Naperville Park District. I couldn’t be happier with the final result of the project, as I was able to successfully complete it and it still looks fantastic nearly a year later. Two traits, hardworking and diligence, were extremely important in the success of my project, and are also very important in my everyday life. I’m a very hard worker, and I don’t give up until I complete my goals. The traits that helped me achieve Eagle Scout apply to all parts of my life including academics

“What defines you as a person is not the life you were born into, but what you made of it” Shahid Kapoor said. This quote can mean many things, but to me, it means that the things that are given to you are not as important as the things you have to work for. The things I have had to work for over the last 17 years of my life have shaped the person I am today.

You probably don’t know this about me, but I used to be an eagle scout. And in order to be an eagle scout, you have to do things like go camping. And over the summer, my troop would like to travel about six hours north of Milwaukee to a place called Camp Lefeber, where we would camp in the wilderness for several days. About ten to twenty other scout troops from around Wisconsin would meet us there, and there were no cabins at the camp grounds. Instead, we slept in tents. My first year at camp, my friend, Matthew, and I had just the minimum age requirement to go: twelve years old. And, being the good friends that we are, we decided to share a tent for the time we were at camp. It’s not weird. We were in the wilderness. We shared for survival.

I am proud to be an Eagle Scout. Since first grade, when I joined Cub Scouts, I have participated in and enjoyed the Scouting program, and I cannot imagine what my life would have been like without it. Though not all of my friends continued through scouting (in fact I am the only member of my Cub scout den who continued through Scouts), I have continuously made new friends and relationships through the scouting program. Scouting has been a defining part of my life, and my life would be drastically different without the Scouting program.

As my journey to the rank of Eagle is coming to an end, but the journey itself is just now starting as such I am thinking more about the future. After high school I plan to go to college to get a mechanical engineering degree. During high school I am participating in the National Honors Society, National Technical Honors Society, National Art Honor Society ,Beta club, Art club, FBLA and swimming for my high school.. I have also been a participant in Beta club since sophomore year. I am very adamant with keeping up with my grades so that I can get into college. During this semester I have study hall in a freshmen class where I often help kids read their tests and help them during everyday school work. I’m a Lutheran from birth and I

I come from Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The city has a single public high school, which I attended. During my time there, I took many classes designed to prepare me for college, and participated in Freshman Football, Boy's Swim, and Computer Club. I discovered my passion for mechanical engineering and computer science due to classes I have taken. Outside of school, I became involved in the Boy Scouts of America, and I am a active scout operating out of Troop 218. Through Boy Scouts, I have been on many camping trips, and have been a part of many service projects. I have earned merit badges on subjects from archaeology, to tracking, to robotics. Scouting has taught me leadership and communications skills that i put to

One way i have exhibited outstanding leadership is by earning the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. Although all of the ranks have a strong focus on leadership, Eagle Scout, the highest rank attainable, is almost completely focused on leadership. The main requirement for obtaining Eagle is the completion of an Eagle Scout Project. In an Eagle Scout project, a scout must plan out and execute a community improvement project. This includes creating plans, raising funds, purchasing materials, and most importantly, leading a group of volunteers to build the project. My project was relandscaping an area in front of my church. I managed about 20 people over the course of a week to do work such as digging up old plants and relocating

I am a Cavalry Scout in the United States Army. As a scout, I fall under the Armor branch of the combat arms field in the Army. I have been a scout for the past 11 years and it is a huge part of who I am. The official Army website defines my job as being “responsible for being the eyes and ears of the commander during battle. They engage the enemy in the field, track and report their activity and direct the employment of weapon systems to their locations.” As a scout, we specialize in reconnaissance and target acquisition. We do whatever it takes to get into positions where we can observe, report, disrupt everyday activities, and even engage the enemy with an arsenal that ranges anywhere from anti-armor weapons such as the T.O.W. or Javelin

I looked down at the shirt- the shirt that wasn’t even mine- noticing how it swallowed my tiny frame within its creased sides and ironed wrinkles. I raised my arms to open the gym door, still observing the baggy sleeves that hung from my arm, not noticing, nor hearing the surge of little boys looping around the gym like Energizer Bunnies. When I did finally look up at the chaos surrounding me, I realized that I had absolutely no idea what I had gotten myself into.

Being able to lead a group or someone is a very powerful action. Being a leader in general is very powerful. Leadership is an art that is painted, sculpted, and displayed in all sorts of ways. There are many different styles of leadership that correspond with different tasks. From transformational leadership to laissez-faire leadership, there are various styles throughout the continuum. A transformational leader is one of the best, more successful leadership style. When going down the continuum, the leadership styles only become less effective. Everyone also falls in distinctive categories when it comes to leading others. The leadership style that is displayed depends on the person leading and those who are being led along with the task.