How many Eagle Scouts :)

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

One doesn't choose whether or not to "do" OA. Its members are nominated by their peers to be inducted into the Order.

I assume that he may have withdrawn his name from nomination, as did I for all 4 (or 5) years I was eligible for personal and political reasons. Mostly, my troop chose to conduct elections for OA while seemingly not embracing the idea of the service that went along with their membership, I made my opinion on that attitude known, and that story wrote itself. After that, I spent too much time with school, church, robotics, and a mixed bag of family crises to add trying to get into OA.

I'm happy with my decision to forego that opportunity in favor of other ones I found better suited to me, but to each his own.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by electrostatics1

what were peoples Eagle projects?

I refurbished an old, ran-down gazebo in my town. We power-washed it, replaced missing spindles on the railings, took off all of the old shingles and put completely new ones on, stained the entire thing, created two flower gardens in the front of it, redid a stone step up to the gazebo, and replaced a stone in the walkway leading to it. I also took a flat rock that was next to the gazebo, painted it gold, and using a Sharpie, turned it into a very nice plaque remembering my Scoutmaster who passed away two years ago. I actually have to go repair it soon, since four of the shingles blew away during Hurricane Sandy.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

One doesn't choose whether or not to "do" OA. Its members are nominated by their peers to be inducted into the Order.

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

I assume that he may have withdrawn his name from nomination, as did I for all 4 (or 5) years I was eligible for personal and political reasons.

Nomination does not press one into service or membership in the OA - the process is voluntary. Like PayneTrain I felt my personal goals and values didn't align with the organization I saw represented to me as a Scout. I'm pleased to hear that for others it provided a positive experience.

[Mykey]

I am happy to see this thread. Team 3997 the Screaming Chickens is not affiliated with a school. We are a BSA explorer post.

Over half of our members are either Eagle Scouts or Gold Award winners. For all of those out there who have no females on their teams the Gold Award is the Girl Scout equivalent of the Eagle Scout rank.

Making Eagle/Gold is an achievement that deserves recognition. Well done to all of you who have put in the time and effort needed to make it!

[blayde5]

Eagle Scout Date: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

I was pretty active all throughout middle school and then FRC kinda swallowed me up for a lot of high school. It was only the summer after my senior year when I was able to complete my project and have my Scoutmaster's Review 2 days before I left for college on the other side of the country. Subsequently, my Board of Review had to be during Thanksgiving Break and my Court of Honor was during Winter Break so all my friends could be back at home for it.

Project wise, I CAD-ed up (woo FRC experience) and built fencing for a 15"x30" vegetable garden (not too difficult), then had to cover the whole dang thing with aviary wire (really annoying). Being in CA over the summer, temperatures got to 90+ degrees F, so I had to cut down my work hours. Ironically enough, the people that ended up staying with me until 8 PM at night to finish the project were some of my fellow FRC members (who I made sure I invited to my CoH).

The two complimented each other very well, I just wish I'd gotten more Boy Scouts leadership experience before I'd gotten my officer position with my FRC team. It is hard though, to do both at the same time, especially during the spring terms. Eagle-ing out is definitely the way to do it.

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

One doesn't choose whether or not to "do" OA. Its members are nominated by their peers to be inducted into the Order. The point is to recognize and honor those who show the spirit of the Scout Oath and Scout Law in their daily life.

It's a lot like the FIRST Chairman's Award that way.

Once one becomes a member of the Order of the Arrow, one does choose whether or not to embrace the idea of service that goes along with membership.



It is only right that the more active and dedicated members get the cooler sash.

This is true in theory. The way it ended up working for most of my troops back at home was just being a popularity contest within the troop, of which the members who were the "coolest" to the newer scouts were voted in. And yes, I am still a little bitter about not getting nominated I have heard it is very rewarding if you dedicate a lot of time into it though

[CalTran]

Eh, OA was alright, though it may just be that I wasn't as active as I should have been. Made Brotherhood and, well, yeah. Mic-O-Say is where it's at. Kudos if you know what it is.

[RoboDesigners]

Thread revival!

Last night (6-20-2013), I passed my Eagle Scout Board of Review. I mention this because I think that my Eagle Scout Project is one of interest to the robotics community: I organized and led a VEX Robotics workshop to prepare late-starting area teams for an upcoming tournament. (Blog post here.)

We had several teams show up (community, school, and even a scout troop-sponsored team), and our workshop directly resulted in four new teams registering for an upcoming tournament. A contact of mine who attended the tournament (I had a direct conflict) told me that the teams who went to the workshop really benefited and enjoyed it.

Also, my project was the first in the Blue Ridge Mountains Council involving robotics. This caught the attention of the council office, as BSA has an ongoing STEM initiative; my Eagle Project was featured in the current council "Stakeholder Report" (a letter that goes out to all the major donors to the local council), as well as on the front page (below the fold) of a local newspaper.

I'm sharing this because I want to encourage any scout who is considering something robotics-related as an Eagle Scout Project. My experience has been that, although there may be some people who push back against a "nontraditional" project (like leading a workshop instead of building a picnic area), the BSA is becoming more interested in STEM-related activities in general and, in particular, really likes to see STEM-related Eagle Projects.

//Andrew

[Calvin Hartley]

Originally Posted by RoboDesigners

Last night (6-20-2013), I passed my Eagle Scout Board of Review.

Congratulations Andrew! Sounds like an excellent project. Too bad mine isn't robotics related... oh well. I need to get that done this summer.

Well done.
-Calvin

[astroman31]

Originally Posted by Mykey

I am happy to see this thread. Team 3997 the Screaming Chickens is not affiliated with a school. We are a BSA explorer post.

Over half of our members are either Eagle Scouts or Gold Award winners. For all of those out there who have no females on their teams the Gold Award is the Girl Scout equivalent of the Eagle Scout rank.

Making Eagle/Gold is an achievement that deserves recognition. Well done to all of you who have put in the time and effort needed to make it!

TEAM Tesla 4086 is also an explorer post. Glad to see another! Any idea how many robotics explorer posts are out there?

[ThunderChief]

Code Orange, Team 3476, has 2 mentors that are Eagle Scouts: Andrew Hedge and Gary Hedge.

Gary Hedge will be on staff at the 2013 Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia this year then drive on Thurs night to IRI.

[tr6scott]

A couple more on the way.... Lake Orion Mi, Troop 186.

Wes McBride - Programming lead for TORC #2137 and WMFlip16 on CD, finished his Eagle Project in June, has a couple of merit badges and final review, expected to be complete after summer camp next week.

Kyle Kutchek - Electrical/Programming for the Dragons of Lake Orion #302 finished his Eagle Project last weekend, still needs final review.

Good Luck to both of them getting it all buttoned up.

Scott.

[bbradf44]

Just finished my eagle project. I've been in 2 different troops and 2 different FRC teams its been quite an experience. I believe there's 1 more eagle scout on the team too

[dag0620]

Just passes my Eagle Board of Review two weeks ago. I'm very ecstatic about the accomplishment.

We have another student on my team that is currently working on his project.

[peetam22]

I am an Eagle Scout out of Troop 811 Jensen Beach, FL as of September 18th of this year. I will say, both the ideals of FIRST and the Scout Oath and Law have shaped me to be who I am today!

[BBray_T1296]

We have at least 5 Eagle Scouts currently on the team (including myself) I know of, 4 of us WERE on the team as students (5th is my dad) (2 graduated 2004, 2 graduated 2013) we are all mentors now. My little brother is Life though, almost Eagle