Share your Eagle Scout service project ideas
Looking for ideas for a good Eagle Scout service project? Wondering what type of Eagle Scout projects that other Scouts are doing? Use this message board to share ideas or tell others about your Eagle project.
Remember, all Eagle Scout service projects are important, but no two are exactly alike. It’ll be up to you to find the right project for you, but these might help you get thinking.
We’ve started the conversation with six examples from the March 2010 issue of Boys’ Life magazine. Take a look and then share your own.
My original plan for my Eagle Scout project was to build a shade maker for our town’s Community Garden.
hey 301 what about a fun raiser to donate to a orphanage
to paint the out side of a bulding
They won’t approve a fundraiser.
I’m thinking of starting my eagle project, I’m 13 and I’m not really into that many things except for Boy Scouts. I’m looking for some good project ideas because my goals in life right now are mainly to get eagle. Any ideas, if so please help me. Thanks!
I built a 12 x 8 x 8 cage used to rehabilitate injured birds at a local state park. The park gave me the specifications the aviary needed to be and I sought advice from a Civil Engineer about the best way to build it. I had many scouts helping the day of the build. It came out great.
If I raised money through a fun run and donated the money to my school to help build a track, do y’all think it would be approved.
Wording like that? No. But I think you have the starts of a good idea.
any ideas for a school oriented eagle project? I live near a poor school and I would like my eagle project to help that school.
Would a community vegetables garden at an elementary school be a good idea
He just delivered 101 pieces of sports equipment that was collected from around our neighborhood and donated them to the Juvenile Detention Department in our community. He is hoping these kids will find a hobby or interest that will help them choose better,
Its amazing
ive got an idea for a great project. Building cement ramps for disabled and wheelchair accessibility in LA AREA. total of 9 ramps, about 4 inches high that would have to be completed in a series of availability based on vacancy of rooms.
Do you guys think that creating works of art (painting or drawing) and distributing them to local businesses and the schools in my town would be approved?
I really doubt it.
no, because your mainly just promoting yourself.
Do you guys think that building a new pinewood derby track for the cub scouts would be approved?
I do not think the project can benefit the BSA, but maybe it would be approved if it’s done as a donation to the Pack’s chartering organization (church, school, etc). Good luck!
dude it doesn’t have to benefit the BSA
my eagle scout project was building bird houses at my local elementary school
my eagle scout project is to put 2 tables with seats and have the benches lean back and then add a placker of scoutmaster,my name, the other placker will have all the scouts names and there rank.
I filled over one hundred shoe boxes with toiletries, small toys and back to school products with the help of about twenty people at a packing party. I solicited donations through the congregation at church. Through Operation Christmas Child, the wrapped and filled shoe boxes will go to boys and girls ages 2-14 in countries affected by war, famine and/or poverty. National Collection Week is November 18-25th.
Is there a sample letter or template available that I can use to ask local businesses for donations of money or materials for my Eagle Project?
My Eagle project is a concrete barbecue area with a privacy fence around it for a homeless shelter. I’m building it because it will really bring the people in the shelter together with fellowship and what’s better way to do that than with food?
What about a spaghetti dinner?
Would that work as an eagle scout project?
Can’t be a fundraising
it could be but it would be hard to fundraise
i want to donate clothes to needy people all around the world but i need some more big ideas i want to do something spetial that no one has ever done before and please if you read this give me some sort of idea i can use please and porfavor DONT STEEL MY IDEA
I have constructed a trellis at a local park. It took 6 months to complete it and it was around $32,000 to build
Thx boys life! I love ur magazine. I’m going to create a directory for my local cemetery, along with adding benches and refurbishing any headstones in disrepair
A kid in my troop moved a clothing bank. It only took two days.
My eagle project involved making and mounting bat houses in my local community park.
if any1 can answer this it would be gr8. can funding consist of asking companys for money because my dad is a company owner and gets a lot of eagle scout canidates asking 4 money
My Counsel allows boys to ask companies for donations to help with Eagel Scout Projects. However, the “actual” project itself can not be a fundraiser. Raising funds to do the project and figuring out how to aquire the funds need for the project is a leadership skill. There are lots of companies out there that are willing to help, some do require a non-profit number (of the beneficiary) in order to get donations. Hope that helps.
There are specific guidelines and forms involved with raising funds for an Eagle Scout project, and every penny must be accounted for. But they are an absolutely acceptable and often necessary part of an Eagle project (just not the entire project).
no, but you can ask them for money to help with your eagle project
I am planning on installing an inground irrigation system in the front lawn of a maternity home for women in crisis pregnancies.
My son when to a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. They were hopeing to get a injured golden eagle but needed to get the facility ready and get permits. He researched the requirments for housing an golden eagle, and built a new habitat for this injured bird. A new Eagle Scout build a home for a Eagle….. awesome project and a lot of fun.