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Both of 306s drivers this year are Eagle, and there have been a few more in the past. I too am Life for life. My senior year i got more involved with the robot, and pushed my project aside. i'm sad i didn't get it but i don't regret anything i did. I am still really involved in scouting though, i am an assistant leader for my troop.I also have spent my last 4 summers Working at Custaloga Town Scout Reservation, helping other scouts achieve what i did not. The things i learned in scouting and FIRST definitely came together and helped me to where i am at today.

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Earned my Eagle on March 31, 1999. First became exposed to FIRST, and a mentor for team 2177 in December 2006.

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I earned my eagle February 2009

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Just last week i earned my Eagle. We also have a freshman who is a Life scout working on his Eagle and another freshmen who is Star.

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Every year we will have several robotics team members who are also Eagle Scouts. We also have mentors who have been scout advisors and Dads. I think it says something about Boy Scouts and about FIRST that the goals are very similar.

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Last year 3 of us made eagle, including myself. This year I'm the only one on the team but we do have a life who is almost eagle. But 3 is good for an FTC team of 7 kids. For me it was more transitional I did Boy Scouts then Robotics

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I earned the Eagle rank in 1984. Had FIRST existed then I'm sure I would have wanted to be involved, as I used to hang out after school in the computer lab (something new at the time - it had about a dozen Apple IIe's). I went on to study Microelectronic Engineering in college.

I wrote my Eagle report on my Commodore 64, and impressed the review board by programming the computer to print little eagle icons around the boarder of the pages (it was an interesting dot matrix printer that only had one pin and a saw tooth drum behind the paper - the timing of the drum spinning created the vertical dots - quite slow and very loud).

My project was managing the cleaning of a large inground pool at a church camp. We drained and scrubbed the pool, painted the bath house and ladders/divingboard structures, and cleaned up some new tent camping sites.

I am involved with my son's Troop, which is quite large - we are expecting about 10 Eagles this year, one of which is on our FRC team.

Merle Yoder
The GRUNTS, Team #3146

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I am an Eagle Scout. I would not have made it without the help and support of my team and I am forever grateful.

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I became Eagle April 15th of this this year. Scouts and robotics is like a "chicken and the egg" scenario for me. Scouts drove me to be really organized and plan alot of events for robotics while robotics gave me a place to test out and apply in a "real world sense" what I learned from scouting. That then drove me to be SPL ... so yeh it goes back and forth. All eagle scouts, you should definitely ask your troop one meeting to allow your robotics team to present. I did that for my Troop roughly 2 weeks ago. http://www.team1672.com/nggallery/pa...-3/gallery-19/

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I'm an Eagle Scout as well--back in '89...seems a lifetime ago...but I guess that is for many of you!

Does anyone know of cub scout/boy scout FLL or Jr FLL teams?
 

Someone in NYC is potentially interested in starting a cub scouts/boy scouts FLL or Jr. FLL team. Does anyone out there have experience with this. Is there a boy scout merit badge for robotics or FIRST? Please private message me if you would be interested in speaking with the person who is thinking about it... thanks, mom1155

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i am a star scout, i know its not eagle but thats soon to come!

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Our team has two eagles (one being myself ;]) and my younger brother is a life rank and is our driver this year. Because people found out I was a boy scout, I have been assigned every knot-tying job we have ever needed, so I am (was, I'm 18 now) the only person in our troop who remembered more than the square knot.

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i am an Eagle Scout as well. I found that FIRST and the Boy Scouts of America have a lot in common. From the responsibilities in leadership roles to helping each other for a greater purpose.

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I am an Eagle Scout and there are at least for others on team 868. Earning my Eagle actually helped me with my leadership role on the robotics team.