The transition from childhood to adulthood occurs when an individual is able to recognize the impact he or she can leave upon their community, gaining life skills doing so. An accomplishment that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood, would be best demonstrated by the process and completion of a leadership responsibility when I performed my Eagle Scout Project. I joined the scouting program when I was very young, and have been very active since ever. Becoming an Eagle Scout has many challenges that a young Boy Scout must undertake, including the completion of a community-based project, which is an important step in obtaining this notable rank. The Eagle Scout Project is designed for the scout to learn different leadership responsibilities. The project allows the scout to have practice with difficult situations to give the young man experience in life lessons. My community-based project was …show more content…
This project taught me multiple life lessons. These lessons included concepts such as communication skills, detailed planning, leadership, and vital importance of keeping a commitment. My Eagle Scout Project has given me experiences, and vital practice with skills that most seventeen-year old’s do not receive until later in life. The project has helped me grow and mature as a person. Working through this project has provided me with experiences with managerial responsibilities that I can use later in my life. Overall, the entire process of my Eagle Scout Project has truly marked my transition from being a child to a young adult. My Eagle Scout Project has given me the privilege of helping my community. I learned what it truly takes to perform a project, start to finish. My passage from childhood to adulthood was demonstrated by my dedication and commitment throughout this project, which has shown me the potential I have to make a difference in my
In my junior year of high school, I led the planning, design, and construction of a boardwalk trail over community wetlands. Of the numerous collaborative efforts Scouting has afforded me, this Eagle Scout Service Project was the most complex and gratifying. In addition to construction management, I learned three things from collaborating with the individuals involved: each person brings a particular approach to problem-solving, each person brings strength of expertise in different areas, and each person may bring a different view of the world that might restrict using “apparent” direct solutions to problems. One situation where I learned to be adaptable and draw on the strengths of others ideas was when building the components of the boardwalk.
However, I have also gained many life experiences that some many never have, I have participated in the Ross County Queens’ Contest, went to 4-H camps during the summer, and have had the opportunity to raise and show hogs at the county fair. Additionally being a Camp Counselor, a member of Junior Fair Board, and Junior Leaders great
I am passionate in everything I do and knowing that I am making a difference is the catalyst that drives me to work hard and be the best leader I can be. During the past few years, I have had the unique opportunity to advocate and be a voice for ailing, hungry and bullied children in the community and abroad. During the past few years, I have participated in the Girl Scout Miss Media program. As a Girl Scout Miss Media spokesperson, I have had the opportunity to participate in press conferences, interviews, radio/TV ads and contribute my thoughts on various advisory panels for bullying. In addition, I have been the voice for girls in major Girl Scout events and aided in securing a $25,000 Sprint grant for underserved girls within the community.
I am going to be cheerful, I will be thrifty,’” he said, referring the the 12 points of scout law. “... Your country needs you to uphold these virtues, not just tomorrow, but throughout your entire life.” Kolterman, who was a mentor to one of the scouts earning the Eagle Scout title, said the boy scouts program and its virtues made an impact on both his personal life and career. “It taught me many leadership skills,” he said.
I feel like that if everyone had the attitude toward life like a Boy Scout the world would be a better place because there would be less greed in the world. I feel like I could make my life better personally by trying to help others in need more than saying it is there fault that they are like this. Everyone has the same opportunity in life you just sometimes need to find the best thing for yourself. I personally felt like this impacted my life because now for the community service required I am going to go to the Ozark Food Harvest to try to help them give food away to the people in
In November of 2014, my scout troop took a hike in the Cohutta wilderness. It was a small group, maybe 10 kids and 2 adults. Mr. Deveau, our troop leader was there, along with another scout leader, Judge Frank C. Mills. We backpacked 3 miles into the woods, stopped, and camped overnight at Breye’s field, a trail camp sight. The next morning we packed up and left.
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.
I would like to start off by saying some thank yous to those who made this day possible. To my parents for the much needed love and support To my family and friends and to the people who helped with my eagle project And thank you all for attending my court of honor Over the past 13 years, scouting has taught me a lot of things that will stay with me the rest of my life. It has taught me, don’t use gasoline to start a fire.
My experience as a student senator has developed my innate leadership and challenged me to grow. It has inspired me to continue to devote my time to represent the underrepresented. I have learned
Today's kids are essential to society since they are our future; they hold the way to change, and thus an effective future, in their grasp. Along these lines, it is society's obligation to furnish them with a total training that shows them how to cooperate effectively, how to question what is before them, and how to be impetuses of progress. This instruction begins with what youngsters gain from their folks and from what they realize in the initial couple of years of their lives. This underlying instruction impacts whatever remains of their lives, what's more, inalienably society's future.
This morning I wake up at 6 A.M., before my alarm goes off. Today is the day I put all my hours of preparation into effect. Months of planning and six years of Boy Scouts have all been leading up this. It is the first day of work on my eagle project. This is my second attempt at stopping erosion on the bank of the Raritan River.
In 2012 more than 2.7 million youth in the US alone participated in Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts of America just further proves my point about helping to creating a better generation. Kids all around the world are learning how to live without computers and are being taught self-reliance so we don’t need to rely on technology and other people alone to do things for us. In my troop, I was the youth leader, otherwise known as the Senior Patrol leader. While being senior patrol leader or being in a leadership position at all, it has taught me a lot of skills and morals for life.
There have been many points in my life that have shaped me to be who I am today, from getting my first pair of glasses in second grade, to joining choir in ninth. However, the most memorable and important part of my life so far would in first grade, when I joined Cub Scouts, as well as what I have done since then as a Scout. One of the ways that Scouting has shaped me was through the meetings. Way back in my first pack, Pack 393, there were adult volunteers for everything, from the Scout leader to my patrol’s leader, that I would look up to. I would work hard at the meetings and I was usually happy to do so.
It teaches you things that carry out through your life. A study by Harris Interactive found that 83% of men that were once in boy scouts agree that the values they learned from scouting are still very important to them today. That same percentage say they have been in real life situations where having been a scout has
I spent a lot of time considering my senior project, and at first I tried a focus on mechanical engineering. As fascinating as the topic is, and as wonderful as a newly designed motorcycle could be, many of the projects associated with engineering were both too difficult and had little to no benefit for my community. Instead, I connected with a Girl Scout troop I had participated in several years ago. I decided that I wanted to have some sort of leadership role within Scouts, but didn’t know yet if I wanted to be a leader or just an assistant. I did know that I wanted to be an integral part of the planning as well as the execution of meetings, and that it would have to culminate in some sort of awards ceremony, as is traditional in Girl Scouts.