Eagle Scout Accomplishment

An accomplishment that saw me transition from childhood to adulthood was when I got my Eagle Scout award. Since the award occurred so close my eighteenth birthday and I had been working on it for so long. This accomplishment allowed me to look back on my childhood and reflect on everything that I had had to do to earn this award but more importantly reflect on what I had learned in my travel through scouting. This was not only a growing up process for me but for my community and family. Becoming an adult in society today is when you are able to use skills learned in childhood and combine these skills to complete one complex project or task. When a task that combines many simple skills into one it is when you have truly grown up and society and family see this as that. After I earned my Eagle Scout award I felt like I had grown up because of how long it had taken me to achieve this honor. I believe that my family also saw this achievement this way because they had helped me so much over the years and had seen how much effort my Eagle Scout project had taken. For my Eagle Scout Project My project was the restoration of an outdoor worship area that is at Glendale Heights United Methodist Church that had fallen into disrepair and become overgrown with ivy. The ivy needed to be killed and pulled before being mulched over while one bench needed repairs. The metal cross had also become rusted and needed to be sanded as well as painted. A new path was cleared and was steep so steps had to be added. There is also a podium that needed repairs to become functional again. This project was a test of my

My Eagle Scout project served as this signal for me and in many ways for myself because I was able to prove that I could execute a project of this