Eagle Projects Ideas
Your project must benefit a non profit organization like
Church, School, City etc. It cannot raise money except small amounts for a
few items. All supplies need to be donated by individuals, stores,
or companies.
We would like it to be a permanent fixture. If you mow
a cemetary and it looks the same 3 weeks later.... it does not count as an eagle
project.
If you give the manpower to another organizations project...
it does not count as an eagle project.
And forget about collecting stuff..... not an eagle project.
Some agencies to contact are:
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Irving Cares or Food Bank
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Your school
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The board of education
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Your church or synagogue
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Children's homes
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The Red Cross
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Salvation Army
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Senior citizens' center
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Nursing homes
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Public libraries
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Veterans organizations
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Camps for the handicapped
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Schools for the handicapped
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Hospitals
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Lighthouse for the Blind
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City recreation department
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City and county parks department
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State and national parks
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Conservation and energy groups
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Army corps of engineers
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Other youth agencies
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Fire departments
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Police departments
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Drug information centers
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Mayor and city government offices
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Civic clubs
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The United Way
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Civil Defense office
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Welfare agencies
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Housing authority
Troop 508 Eagle Projects:
- Build a small building at Police Safety town where small children are
taught traffic safety
- Build a sign in front of the school to announce when PTA meets each month.
- Build benches in front of school for students to sit in, or for local
park.
- Talk to local parks dept. about projects they have planned: i.e. making
hiking trails.
- Talk to local city about projects: i.e. gluing signs on drains not to dump
hazard wastes down city sewer drains.
- In a local Nature Area, plant more trees in the area. Build a pond..
- Paint a room, or the doors at a local church.
- Repair playground at local park or church.
- Paint metal or waterproof wooden items at playground, or in front of city
building, hospital, or church.
- Repair or do work at local animal shelter.
- Paint parking stripes in school/church parking lot.
Eagle Projects from other Troops
- Jeremy built shelves and cabinets to be used by the Interfaith ministries.
- Robert built chimney swift houses for the Armand Bayou Nature Center in
Clear Lake City. Five were built. There things are chimneys which are 12
feet tall.
- a tire swing was built. The Eagle built a large wood structure
from which to hang the swing.
- Some large shelving units were built in the Interfaith Ministries food
pantry.
- Working with Sam Houston National Forest, one of our Eagles built bat
boxes.
- The same as 6 but the Eagle built owl houses.
- One Eagle built trash receptacles for the local nature center and
installed them.
- Another nature center project was building benches in the rest areas
along a nature trail.
- Building welcome signs to our town by major roads.
- Build a ramp for the handicapped at a local church.
- Build bird cages for local animal rehabilitators.
- build a pamphlet display in a local church, or make a guide to a local
nature trail.
- - rebuilt an outdoor chapel
- - built seven sets of sturdy steps (railroad ties, rebar, gravel) on a
banking down to a popular fishing area, thus preventing erosion
- - cleared paths and rebuilt steps and benches in an overgrown,
inaccessible wildlife area, leaving brush piles and wild fruit stands for
wildlife habitat but allowing greater use and appreciation of the area for
local people
- - rebuilt a spillway and small dam in a conservation area to prevent
flooding and make for safer access for hikers
- - constructed and installed floating turtle rafts of cedar in a town
conservation area to replace downed trees the town had removed for safety
reasons, thus restoring a safe habitat for the turtles to sun themselves and
avoid foxes and other predators.
- repainting the bathrooms at the park and sand papering all the graffiti
off the wooden playground
- built a 10 x 20 building for a therapeutic riding program
- built gazebos and benches on the park trail for the city and planted
climbing rose
- built a prayer garden for a church
- Upgrading existing or building new hiking trails at a county park
(basically the park ranger has a shopping list of things that need to be
done).
- Coordinating their family church's week of taking care of some homeless
families.
- Recruiting volunteers from the Troop and high school service clubs
(including getting formal permission through high school channels) and
managing their work at the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.
- Build a walking trail around a lake in a local county park.
- Walking/Nature Trails at local schools including chips and shavings to
walk on, leveling trail for ease of use, etc.
- Construct and install a Guide rope and Braille signs for a boardwalk at a
local nature center. Nature centers always seem to have projects for Eagle
Scouts.
- Clean and repaint the parking lot for a large local church.
- Another candidate designed, planned and organized the construction of a
mobile literature storage box/podium for his church. The project was about 6
feet high, 6 feet wide and 2 feet deep, on wheels.
- A third candidate arranged the installation of a basketball goal and 1/2
court marking at a nearby church parking lot as a recreational project for
the church and community youth.
- Another arranged to plan and execute a large concrete sidewalk
- Building a volley ball court for our church.
- Fixing up one of the meeting halls in our church.
- Building bagging tables for a local volunteer organization.
- Paint the interior of a 2 story local church Sunday school building.
- Dig up and remove several dead trees, plant replacement trees and some new
trees along the access road to a local neighborhood, and plant bushes and
fix up several existing nursery beds.
- Clear and develop a nature trail at a local park.
- The first project was laying a wood chip trail around a local school yard
for the students and citizens to use as a fitness trail.
- The second was painting the inside walls of a fire house.
- Refurbished the inside of a Chessie System caboose that the town I live in
purchased for a local museum.
- Rehabilitated and painted the church garage. Replaced the doors and put a
new roof on the structure.
- Conducted a tree thinning operation in a pine plantation at a local nature
center.
- Rebuilt a 100 ft., field stone retaining wall, along a nature trail at the
church retreat house.
- Constructed a large number of wooden planter boxes for the patio of a
local nursing home.
- Designed and constructed a wooden foot bridge over a creek in the local
county park.
- Constructed and stained a long wooden fence along a walkway at the
historical Society grounds.
- Cleared and laid out a nature trail for pre school children with activity
stations at the nature center.
- An antique, horse-drawn buggy was restored for a local museum.
- Scouts made 27 cement boxes for tree planters in order to level the
planters on one of the main streets of their city.
- More than 30 hours were spent forming 40 cement blocks, one square foot
each, in which metal-cased, veteran stars were placed. The veteran markers
were then set in place at the headstone of veterans in a local cemetery.
- An access ramp was built at a church to accommodate wheelchairs.
- One candidate planned and supervised the planting of a vegetable garden at
a senior citizen center
- At a home for senior citizens, outdoor furniture was sanded and painted, a
shuffleboard court was constructed
- Building a sturdy bridge in a county park provided quite a challenge. The
candidate secured the posts, planking, and concrete and transported the
supplies to the bridge site.
- Another project consisted of planting 1000 Virginia pine trees and 18
crepe myrtle trees and the construction and installation of birdhouses along
a nature trail in a state park.