My eldest son Brandon just finished tonight with his Eagle Scout board of review, and has officially become an Eagle Scout. His project was building two, dual seat soap box derby cars for a group called Sunshine State kids. This allows kids with disabilities to race cars with other kids as drivers. One was themed as Lightning McQueen and the other was Herbie the Love Bug. This is a lot of work for a young man to go through and we are very proud of his accomplishment.
Congrats. It's rare these days to have parents instill hard work in their kids. Thanks for being one of those parents looking out for our next generation.
Congrats. The was not much support for Scouts in my youth but as an adult I am surrounded and associated with a surprisingly large number of Eagle Scouts.
I can easily name off 20 people I know who are Eagle Scouts
Congratulations to your son, that's a huge accomplishment!
Great accomplishment- I spent six years in Cub/Boy Scouts. I have a lot of awesome memories.
Your son did a great job.
Way to go.
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations, from one to another! Remind him when he gets older to list it on his resume somewhere. I always pull those to the top.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!!
That's a lot of work for the kid and the parents.
Very cool! Any chance we can see a pic of these derby cars? They sound great.
Congratulations, that is quite an accomplishment.
mikeatrpi said:Congratulations, from one to another! Remind him when he gets older to list it on his resume somewhere. I always pull those to the top.
Yeah. Put on resume.
In military service, the Eagle Scout accomplishment earns you a strip/merit upon entry into the service. Also equals an immediate bump in military pay over those w/o Eagle Scout.
Another Eagle here giving my Congrats! Keep up the good work!
Now that he has proven to be a strong leader the real work begins.
In reply to John Welsh :
His current plans are a career in the Navy, so this gives him a good start.
In reply to dculberson :
Here are the cars when they were on display at the International Auto Show in Orlando.
Congratulations from another eagle. He's sure to benefit from the hard work and service he's put in for the rest of his life.
Congratulations to your son.
and mom and dad, take a bow. You did a good job.
Well done! Looks like there are enough merit badges on that sash to receive some palms.
Congratulations to your son and your family. A large investment of time by all with a great return.
Any details on the build process? When my neighbor did his Eagle project last year, he couldn’t use power tools to make raised beds for a local school. Scouts said was dangerous so his dad did the sawing and drilled pilot holes, son did the assembly with hand tools.
What amazing project. Puts mine to shame!!
Tell him congrats for me. No single piece of becoming an eagle is hard. Sticking with it for more than a third of your life is.
Fellow Eagle scout here. Congratulations, its a lot of commitment to earn that rank. The time spent with my friends and all we experienced through scouting is certainly a highlight of my youth.
What a unique service project, and how cool is that to have it on display at an International Auto Show!
In reply to Bubbal :
There is some vagueness in the Scout policy toward power tools, depending on Scouts age and usually end with "proper adult supervision". In other words it is your fault if they get hurt. This leads many Troops to ban power tools altogether. Since this was built in my shop, my rules apply. Scouts could use hand power tools, drills, sanders, screw guns, jig saw, but not skill saw. There were not allowed to use stationary power tools like table saw and power miter saw, these I operated. The Scouts had a team working on each car and as they needed parts they would give me measurements (I helped a lot with the compound angles) then I would cut the parts for them to install. We had plenty of mistakes that had to be corrected and plans that had to be modified because of how a previous step was completed, but in my mind that is what these projects are about. I wanted them to do as much of the work as possible with a reasonable safety margin.
The plans we had were not very good and the instructions were not very clear, combined with a project leader that has never run a project and you get into some interesting situations. Eagle Scout projects are not supposed to be done by the candidate, they are supposed to manage the project. For most of them, my son included, this is the first project they have managed. They quickly learn that this is much harder than just telling people what to do, again all great experience in real world leadership.
In reply to Robbie :
I sent him a link to this thread so he can read all of your comments for himself. Thanks to everyone for the positive comments and accolades.
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