How many Eagle Scouts :)

[Peter Johnson]

I'm an Eagle Scout, but I became one long before I ever heard of FIRST (no team at my high school). I think both have much in common, particularly in the willingness to volunteer.

[Mark Holschuh]

Team 2194 has at least four alumni who earned their Eagle Scout rank, and two current members who are working on it. Their Boy Scout training has served them all well.

I have also found that Boy Scout leaders also make very good FIRST mentors!

[scarletrain]

My brother is

[Rick TYler]

We are a Venturing Crew, so I guess you could say we have 70 Scouts on our robotics team. We have two alumni who are Eagles (that I know of), one of whom also earned two Silver Palms, and one current Eagle. All of our Eagles went to Philmont, and one of them also attended Northern Tier and Seabase.

When I was a boy I was the curse of Scout units. My Cub Scout pack, two Boy Scout troops, and an Explorer Post all folded when I was a member. I'm Life for life. I suppose at 16 or so I got tired of destroying Scout units. I do have nine years as an Assistant Scoutmaster (for two troops that are both still in business) three as an Explorer Post advisor, and now one as a Venturing Crew Advisor. I hope by now that Baden-Powell and Green Bar Bill have forgiven me for my youth history.

[Captain Slacker]

Since I'm not a boy, I am not an eagle scout. But I am a Girl Scout and I am getting the equivalent now. I am going for my Gold Award, with a great deal of help from the skills I learned at robotics, as well as constant support from my team. Team Paragon also helped me maintian my Silver Award, so I give them quite a bit of credit for my success(:

[hektormagee]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

We are a Venturing Crew, so I guess you could say we have 70 Scouts on our robotics team. We have two alumni who are Eagles (that I know of), one of whom also earned two Silver Palms, and one current Eagle. All of our Eagles went to Philmont, and one of them also attended Northern Tier and Seabase.

When I was a boy I was the curse of Scout units. My Cub Scout pack, two Boy Scout troops, and an Explorer Post all folded when I was a member. I'm Life for life. I suppose at 16 or so I got tired of destroying Scout units. I do have nine years as an Assistant Scoutmaster (for two troops that are both still in business) three as an Explorer Post advisor, and now one as a Venturing Crew Advisor. I hope by now that Baden-Powell and Green Bar Bill have forgiven me for my youth history.

Nice! I think you certainly left your mark on scouting and I also bet that if you had better luck, that scouting spirit would have earned you eagle.

[darkangel]

There are at least two on my team going for Eagle Scout this year.

[hektormagee]

What did everyone do for their Eagle Project?

For my eagle project, I went to a cemetery, cleaned all the veteran's graves, dug around each of them to remove the grass that had encroached on the tombstones, filled in the trenches I made with fresh, clean soil, and bought American flag holders with medallions that told the war the veteran fought in to place at each of their graves. Finally, on Veterans Day, I placed a flag in each of the 88 holders. The total cost for the project was $1000 give or take 5 bucks. NOTE TO ALL SCOUTS THAT NEED MONEY - GET A TABLE OR SOMETHING AT A POPULAR STORE ON BLACK FRIDAY AND ASK FOR $1-$5 DONATIONS. Lots of people pay for their black friday gifts in cash and have little scraps of money they are willing to spare for a good project. I got over $700 in a period of about 3 hours. :-)

[Bryan Herbst]

I, along with 2 other members of my team, am an eagle scout.

[its da PAT!!!]

I am a proud Eagle Scouts! I can say for sure since we have been a team we have had 4 and I helped get one of my Scout Masters who is also an Eagle Scout to be a mentor!!!

[sparrowkc]

I'm an Eagle scout. For my project, I poured a section of sidewalk through an area behind our school that was basically a high-traffic mud pit. The concrete was donated by Geiger Ready Mix, a concrete supplier in Lee's Summit, Missouri.

[lancerbots]

I am also an Eagle Scout. I also earned my Eagle early in my junior year, a few months before I became significantly involved in FIRST. Hopefully we see many more new Eagles in FIRST robotics within the next few years
Go Troop 80!

[Ian Curtis]

I am an Eagle Scout, and another 1276 alumni also achieved the rank of Eagle.

It was pretty special, "my" Eagle Court of Honor was actually a joint one. There were 6 of us who made Eagle within a few months, so we had a joint Court of Honor. The State Senator who presented us with our flags and letters of congratulation from the State said that everyone he talked to said he must be mistaken, there was no way six kids from one troop could be receiving the rank at once.

For those Scouts who aren't 18 yet, the man I gave my mentor pin to said that the thing he regretted the most in his life was that he stopped his own trail to Eagle as a Life Scout. So finish those merit badges and get a start on your project!

[Chris Fultz]

Cyber Blue has two currently on the team, and several alumni (see 1747 response... )

[Geek 2.0]

I'm working on it... Honestly, I can say that although FIRST is helpful in some aspects, I find myself splitting my time between Boy Scouts and Robotics. It's a difficult choice, because FIRST isn't year round (well, not officially) whereas Boy Scouts is, so it subconsciously takes second priority.

However, now it's crunch time, because I'm 17, so it's moved up!