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Overview
The Eagle Project must demonstrate leadership of others and provide
service to a worthy institution other than the Boy Scouts. This may be a
religious institution, school, or your community. See the first page of
the Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook for all requirements and
limitations.
You should try to choose a project idea which is valuable to the community
and a challenge to you. It does not have to be an original idea, but you must
do all of the planning for your project and may not use someone else's plan.
The project may not be routine labor (like cutting the grass at
the church).
The project may not benefit the BSA or any Scout property or any
business or individual.
While fundraising is only permitted to obtain money to pay for materials you
need for your project, the project may not be a fund-raiser in itself.
Your project should include members of your or other Scout units. Additional
labor is good if you can obtain help from a service group, school booster
club or other organization.
While it is nice to do projects for your sponsoring organization, it is
not at all required. Project ideas can be found in many places: in the
newspaper, at your church, at your school, or from community organizations.
Let the word out that you are looking for project ideas and see what input
you get. As you look around for ideas, write down several which interests
you. You should not spend much time actually planning a project until you
have talked the idea over with your Scoutmaster or other leader to insure
that it is a valid idea.
While not required, it is a good idea to get a troop leader (other than
your Scoutmaster) to serve as your project advisor. This leader can help you
choose a project, help you determine what needs to be done in planning it,
and help you get the write-up ready to go to the district for approval.
Always take detailed notes when talking to your advisor -- you cannot
remember things nearly as well as you can read them from your notes later.
Your advisor may not want to tell you the same thing again and again.
A rule of thumb is for the total hours worked on the project (by volunteers)
to be approximately 120 man hours. An example would be 40 people
working for 3 hours each.
Sample Ideas For
Eagle Projects
- Rehabilitate a section of trail for US Forest Service (Mark Twain National
Forest)
- Replanting sections of a church trail area
- Install handicap cement walk
- Clean flower vases for a cemetery
- Paint over graffiti with an anti-graffiti education campaign
- Repair and painting of walls for an organization
- Install sprinklers for an organization
- Clean and fix a community barbecue/park area
- Clean and paint playground equipment
- Canned food drive for homeless shelter
- Weeding, lawn maintenance, plant/flower planting (church,
school, etc.)
- Collecting books for school or public libraries
- Make voting booths
- Fingerprint and video tape children for ID
- Make playground for orphans
- Clean up pond or lake
- Rebuild shelters at zoo
- Collect eyeglasses and donate to needy
- Catalogue cemetery gravestones and make a map
- Repaint school bleachers
- Toy drive for foster children and orphans
- Build boat dock
- Build benches along nature trail
- Door-to-door clothing drive
- Repair and clean cemetery headstones
- Remove and replace dead trees along road
- Install benches for school with backs and feet rests. As well
as silk screen money donors names and organizations into benches plus
your name and eagle rank.
- Install preformed pond with a fountain, and a light
- Hold a flag drive followed by a public flag-retirement
ceremony
- Build a float dock for a children's home
- Build a garden path walkway and benches at senior citizen
center
- Help fire marshal install and check smoke alarms in low
income housing
- Collect supplies for natural disaster relief
- Make a bike trail
- Restore a historical landmark
- Conduct a coat drive for the needy
- Restore a fences around a park
- Conduct a bike safety rodeo
- Conduct a food drive for the needy and and
arrange distribution
- Build a nature trail in a city park
- Blood drive
- Toy drive
- Conduct a book fair for a church bookstore
- Make knot boards for a fire department or rescue team and
describe what the purpose of each knot is
- Fix a local baseball park's fields and concession stands
- Play instruments for a nursing home
- Paint a local police substation
- Make a community web page for new community laws and
ordinances
- Sand and stain bleachers at community ball field
- Collect blankets for the homeless shelter.
- Build playground equipment for abuse shelter
- Clear non-native plants and plant oak trees
- Build wheel-chair accessible picnic tables at occupational
rehab center at hospital
- Removal of old Barbed Wire fences from areas where snow
mobiles operate in the winter
- Building nesting platforms for birds (Geese, Osprey, Eagles,
etc.)
- Building and placing bird houses for state conservation areas
- Build a footbridge or other project for Silver Meadows Girl
Scout Camp
- Build chuck boxes for Girl Scout troops or Campfire
Boys & Girls
Other sources
for project ideas
- Troop 702 Scoutmaster team
- Churches
- Parks
- Museums
- Schools & their booster clubs or PTA groups
- Homeless Shelters
- Battered Women's Shelter
- Retirement Homes
- Charitable groups (e.g. Salvation Army)
- Hospitals
- Heart of Missouri
Girl Scout Council
- Camp Fire
USA -
Missouri Trails Council
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