Scout As A Eagle Scout Award

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 Scout Executive of Southern Missouri presented me with a medal and a badge. The award recognized the accomplishments and requirements that an Eagle Scout fulfills. I accepted the award and took my seat. Once the applaud of my fellow scouts and friends died down, I thanked everybody for coming to recognize my accomplishment of becoming an Eagle Scout. I continued to express my gratitude to all the leaders and parents that made my time as a Boy Scout some of the best times I spent in the outdoors. I reflected over the many campouts I took when I was younger and did not yet possess the skills or the equipment that I have since gained. I concluded my speech by thanking the business that sponsored my final service project.

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

Tough Scouts “Scouts Honor” by Avi is a realistic fiction about three boy scouts named Max, Horse, and the narrator. All of these boy scouts struggle with being tough. In the beginning, the narrator decides that he doesn't want to be the same Boy Scout rank anymore. To rank up he needs to go camping which he agrees to and his friends Horse and Max are boy scouts that also want to rank up so they join to. Soon, they leave all with deep fear of the trip because they all struggle with being tough but won't admit they do struggle with being tough.

All across America, young men join together in a special organization called the Boy Scouts of America. Scouts from 1st grade to seniors in high school work toward a common goal: growing up into a functional, mature citizen and leader of the United States. I joined this great organization in 2006 as a Wolf Cub Scout and rose through the ranks to get into Boy Scouts in 2010. I didn’t know what to expect from such a widely popular, military-like group. Will I get pushed to my limit? How much can Scouts impact me? Is Cub Scouts like what others say?

I was a member of the Boy Scouts of America throughout my childhood all the way up through my high school years. During my junior year I organized and carried out my Eagle Scout service project: building a volleyball court for the church at which the troop held its meetings. This was one of the last things I had to complete before I obtained the highest honor in Scouting: the rank of Eagle Scout. It was what I had been working towards for many years. I spent countless hours planning, stockpiling, and recruiting for my project, and many more hours on the construction and final touches. I presented what I thought was the finished product, only to have one of the Scout leaders ask for more. In my eyes, I was done, but I was told that I couldn’t get my project signed off if I didn’t deal with another construction company and commit to extra hours of renovations.

I hope everyone had an amazing Troop “Boot-Camp” and Leadership weekend. I want to thank all the adults that were able to oversee and guide. Now moving away from this weekend, I am here to primarily talk about my Eagle Scout project.

After I attain the rank of Eagle Scout, I will continue to strive for more achievements and work towards completing other goals so I can become a model member of society.

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

I grew up in a home where my parents taught us to serve our country, community and those around us. They taught me through example, my father was a scout leader when I was a child. He often took me camping and to merit badge Pow Wow’s. As a boy I began to dream about becoming a boy scout. When I became old enough I joined the cub scouts. While in Cub scouts I learned about being part of the pack, about working together to accomplish large projects, to work together to accomplish a larger goal. Then when I was older I was able to join the boy scouts they taught me about being a citizen in the community, about being a good neighbor. They taught me about doing a good turn daily, and being prepared. When I was 13, I became a life scout. Being a life scout is not anything special, other than I was able to start working on my eagle project.

The American hero Vet award goes to Joy because she have given back to the community and has risk her life to save animals. She is one of the best veterans in Tennessee. She is a trained rescue worker always rushing to provide life-saving services to animals after a disaster or animal fighting raid; she is always ready to help. She goes above and beyond to save the lives of animals; she is very passionate about her job. What makes her unique is that she is the youngest person to ever receive this award. To qualify for this award you must have been in college for four years, be a certified vet, and live in Tennessee. She has her own animal clinic and it’s very successful.

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.

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

Normally I would tolerate doing a lot of work but when I am burdened with most of it, there is an issue. The scoutmaster would always say that all the extra work would make me a better person and help me achieve the highest rank in scouts, Eagle Scout. This excuse only masked his doubt that I would ever do it to begin with. The rest of the week dragged on bringing more work and more discouraging remarks from our

I agree with the effects Sierra said about the participants not having the motivation to strive to be better. Personally, if I knew every time I was in a competition that I would get the same award as first place, I would put no effort into the competition. I disagree though with effect of self-esteem, I think that the participation award do rise self-esteem, until we outgrow the participation award. In everyday life people are not receiving participation awards at the workplace. So at some point the participation award will have to be taken away, and once it is I think participants will then have a large decrease in their self-esteem. The participants will no longer receive an award which makes them feel as if their work was inadequate. Participants