Extreme Makeovers, Round 23: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos
This week’s batch of 12 projects includes a handsome horseshoe pit in California, a majestic memorial in Florida and an antique apple orchard in Virginia.
This Scout wanted to help his home away from home — in South Africa
When word reached a Tennessee Life Scout about a school in need of help, he decided to do his Eagle Scout project in a village more than 8,000 miles away from his hometown.
Extreme Makeovers, Round 22: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos
This week’s batch of 14 projects includes a remodeled youth activity room in a church basement, two large raccoon cages at a wildlife rehabilitation center, and several memorials to honor the men and women of our armed forces.
Extreme Makeovers, Round 21: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos
This week’s batch of 14 projects includes new shelving for an Illinois food bank, an outdoor physical fitness training center in California and a helipad for a North Carolina fire department.
Extreme Makeovers, Round 20: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos
This week’s batch of 12 projects includes a sand volleyball court, an agility course for search and rescue dogs, and 3D-printed prosthetic hands for children born without fingers. I’ve also included the first-ever Eagle before-and-after submission from a BSA troop in France. Très bon!
Extreme Makeovers, Round 19: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos
This week’s batch of 12 Eagle Scout service projects includes an outdoor bird classroom, a butterfly garden and a gazebo honoring military veterans.
2018 Eagle Scout Project of the Year: He built a fully accessible musical playground
Nathan Fain, an Eagle Scout in Troop 326 of LaGrange, Ga., won the 2018 Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award
Guidance for honoring veterans with grave site flags on Memorial Day
Keep these tips in mind if your Scouting unit is planning to honor our fallen veterans this Memorial Day.
Leaders inject fun, education into clean-up service projects
How do you help ensure picking up trash doesn’t devolve into a way to simply fulfill service hour requirements? Pack 267 and Troop 267 in Fredonia, N.Y., have an answer.
Thanks to the Order of the Arrow, Puerto Rico’s hurricane-devastated Camp Guajataka is open for business
A hundred Scouts and Scouters from 28 different states traveled to Puerto Rico this month to help rebuild Camp Guajataka, the beloved camp owned by the BSA’s Puerto Rico Council. The camp was hit hard by Hurricane Maria in September.
When Troop 707 lost all of its gear in the California fires, other troops stepped up
Six Troop 707 families, including the Scoutmaster’s family, lost their homes. As luck would have it, all of Troop 707’s camping gear was stored at three homes that were completely burned.
Eagle Scout builds buddy bench to fight bullying, promote autism awareness
Sometimes kids who are bullied don’t know where to go for help. Thanks to an Eagle Scout, that’s no longer the case at a Maryland elementary school.
Scouts clean a national park’s sticky situation
California Scouts scraped gum off sidewalks at the Cabrillo National Monument, putting in service hours for a Scout Ranger patch.
Eagle Scout’s service project solves city’s traffic problem
Skyler Chapman is barely old enough for a Utah learner’s permit. But for his Eagle Scout service project, he made a traffic problem disappear.
Puerto Rico Scouter shared this powerful message 2 days before Hurricane Maria hit
Two days before Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, Maria Molinelli posted a message in Spanish on the council Facebook page.
New York Eagle project honors the ‘man in the red bandanna,’ a 9/11 hero
Christopher Walsh’s project is a memorial to the “man in the red bandanna,” who had died while saving strangers on Sept. 11, 2001.
Eagle Scout project teaches parents about the signs of drug addiction
Realizing that parents play an important role in recognizing drug abuse, Corey had an idea. For his Eagle project, he would re-create a teenager’s bedroom.
6 ways to help young people remember the true meaning of Memorial Day
Somewhere along the way, we forgot what Memorial Day is all about. Here are six ways to help young people keep that patriotic pledge going.
2017 Eagle Project of the Year: He built sensory rooms for kids with autism
Blake built two sensory rooms specially designed for children with autism. The project earned him the 2017 Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award.
With documentary, Eagle Scout on a mission to save the mountain caribou
Scouting helped Marcus Reynerson become the outdoorsman he is today. And now Reynerson wants to help prevent the mountain caribou from becoming extinct.
Ohio Scouts collect more than 23,000 pairs of shoes for people in need
Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers collected gently used shoes for Soles4Souls, a global nonprofit that delivers shoes to children and adults in need.
Scouts cancel troop gift exchange, spend money on needy families instead
In 2013, the Boy Scouts of Troop 485 in Franklin Square, N.Y., were getting ready for their troop’s annual gift exchange when something magical happened.
Before and After: The 10 top Eagle Scout project transformations of 2015-2016
Each of the more than 200 submissions has been a remarkable example of the power of Scouting service. But today I wanted to highlight 10 that stand out.
Scouts rebuild homes for two women in Houston
Two Boy Scouts led the effort through Rebuilding Together Houston to give some much-needed facelifts to the homes of two Houston women.
Toy drive for Eagle Scout project benefits children battling cancer
Zachary Fortuna, a 13-year-old Scout from Troop 56 of the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge, organized a toy drive to benefit children battling cancer.
Instead of spending it on himself, Scout gives mitzvah money to troop
He could’ve spent his bar mitzvah money on the typical things that interest 13-year-old boys: videogames and candy. But Jacob Finch isn’t a typical boy.
Extreme Makeovers, Round 18: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos
This week’s batch of 10 projects includes an elementary school playground, an outdoor stage and a hawk aviary for rehabilitating birds.
Extreme Makeovers, Round 17: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos
This week’s batch of 10 projects includes a meditation labyrinth, a bocce ball court and a renovated entrance to a national reserve in Puerto Rico.
Scouts rescue hiker with second-degree burns in California
Members of Oregon Troop 859 put their wilderness first-aid training into action during a weeklong backpacking trip on California’s Lost Coast Trail.
Louisiana flooding hits Scout families; here’s how to help
Scouts and Scouters in the Evangeline Area Council and Istrouma Area Council in Louisiana have been displaced by unprecedented flooding.