How many Eagle Scouts :)

[1789Robotics]

There's really no Eagle Scouts in the county that I live in. I think that I might know of maybe two or three that moved from my county, otherwise there's no Eagle Scouts here.

[wendymom]

Bacon is very proud to have 3 Eagle Scouts among our alumni and we have 3 more current students who will Eagle by next year.

[anthonyttu]

I have my Eagle but I didn't join FIRST till after.

[Astarties]

I am one. I don't know how much one helped with the other. They were both very seperate for me.

[Cow Bell Solo]

I am an Eagle Scout and will always be an Eagle scout like all the others on here.

On the path to Eagle and with FIRST like others have mentioned that there is a bit of overlap. Sure scouts may be more focused with outdoor activities to teach life skills, but those life skills are used outside of those outdoors. FIRST strengthened some of the ability's and skills that I was taught in scouts. I definitely had a lot of leadership experience with FIRST and working as a team which is really important to have that experience and the ability to try something no matter how crazy it could be, if you have success you were successful, if you have failure you were still successful, just found out a way that doesn't work.

Being in college now I have come across many Eagles and many situations where things I have learned in scouts and in FIRST have come in very handy.

If your on your path toward Eagle, keep at it, I know you've heard that it is a great thing to have and that it helps you in life, but it Truly does and you see that more and more every day your an Eagle.

If you aren't in scouts don't let that discourage you, don't be afraid to find a troop near you even though you haven't been involved from the beginning. Also don't let this thread discourage you from doing great things as everyone has the ability to, especially with you being in FIRST you are already doing great things and learning so much that you don't even know it til you need to use it

[Alex2614]

I recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. For me, it wasn't just scouting that helped me in robotics, but also vice-versa. It was the leadership skills that I gained through the scouting program that I carried over when we started the FRC team #2614 four years ago. It was that summer that I did my Eagle Scout project, so I didn't have as much FIRST experience. But, I didn't obtain the Eagle rank until late summer 2010, at which time FIRST had consumed my life. We have actually developed partnerships with the scouting program through my involvement.

It truly is great to see two different programs that have the same mission come together. I had no clue there were so many BSA-FIRST kids (let alone Eagle Scouts!) out there. The two programs have essentially the same mission and the same standards for those involved. One will notice many similarities between the Boy Scout Law, Oath, and Slogan and FIRST's Gracious Professionalism. Also, look at BSA's Order of the Arrow (Scouting's National Honor Society). Its core is Cheerful Service to others. Isn't that what FIRST is about too?

Their missions are also the same in that they are growing today's youth into tomorrow's leaders. They are both fantastic programs to get involved in, and I consider myself extremely lucky to have both of them in my life.

I will always be an Eagle Scout and I will always be a FIRST kid as well.

Yours In Scouting,
Alex S.

[chemipanda]

Im an eagle scout as of 11/16/2010 ( board of review date)
We have 3 eagle scouts on ours and another one working on getting his project started.
Most of our team are boy scouts.

[kws4000]

I too, am an Eagle Scout.

My local troop has thirteen off the top of my head. There is another troop in my area that also has some (# unknown to me).
There are also three other scouts on my team working towards their Eagle.

[electron]

I'm in a group called Royal Rangers (very similar to Boy Scouts), and I have earned the equivalent to the Eagle Scout.

[Racer26]

As a Canadian I'm curious, are any of you Eagle scout FIRSTers among the Eagles who sent their badges back to BSA in protest last year?

[akoscielski3]

I am a Chief Scout ... Which is the same thing as an eagles scout but Canadian. In Canada you are suppose to get it before high school so FIRST didn't help alot. however i was still aprt of the team becaue of my two borther who were on the team. Also my one borther is a Queen Venture (Higest possible achievement in Canadian scouting) and was apart of FIRST when he achieved this award.

[2348humanplayer]

I am an Eagle Scout of Troop 9, Aloha Council, Kamehameha District. I earned it in June of 2011, and I bet I have the longest time to complete an Eagle Scout Project. Can anyone beat 1 whole year?

My dad got to life, my uncle to star, and I have one life and one eagle as cousins. My eagle cousin actually was my driving force to complete my climb. And, he was my workout partner for Personal Fitness. 3 months didn't last as long with him.

Glad to reply!

[Calvin Hartley]

I am sad to say that I have not earned my Eagle yet. I have a couple merit badges to finish as well as my project. I've started my project, but have yet to do the bulk of it. Tonight is my last night as Senior Patrol Leader of my troop, hopefully I will be able to spend more time on my Eagle now that my SPL term is done. (Although I bet it'll be more robots than Eagle work ) I must say, it been... well, intiresting, to say the least juggling SPL and Fabrication Leader for my troop and team.

[Graham Donaldson]

I'm an Eagle - I can't say robotics helped me too much with it (I got my eagle early sophomore year) but Scouts was certainly an (almost) equal part of my life as robotics. Robotics only wins because I spent that much more time there.

[Stimpy1901]

For one of our students, it wasn't FIRST specifically, but robotics in general. He organized and conducted several programming training sessions for Botball for the local middle school as his Eagle Scout Project last year.

I agree that there is major overlaps in both programs with regards to leadership and character.