Piedmont Council Eagle Projects
Eagle Scout is the highest rank available within Scouting. It requires staying active in the program for several years, earning 21 merit badges in various areas, providing leadership within one’s troop, and completing an Eagle project. Our council has a rich tradition of Scout participation as well as many Scouts achieving the rank of Eagle. Since 1921, when the Council was chartered, more than 1000 young men have achieved the rank of Eagle. In recent years, they have earned the Eagle rank at a rate of between 8 and 10% of our Scout community annually, more than twice the national average of 4%.
The service project is a significant and often final, step in achieving Eagle rank. The project is not as a “giant good deed.” Rather it is the culmination of years of work. It is a test of one’s planning and leadership skills.
Who benefits? Certainly the Scout and those who volunteer. Each has learned the value of contributing to society. The candidates certainly learned leadership and planning skills as well. However, our community has also benefitted: schools in Piedmont and Oakland, parks and local churches to name just a few, have received many thousands of hours of service. In fact, Piedmont Eagle projects are providing the equivalent of one continuous worker for 30 hours each and every week of the year.
The following summarizes projects from the past two years.
2010 Projects
| Scout Name | Troop | Project | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Sweeney | 1 | Designed and built a new garbage enclosure for Piedmont Community Church. | 198 |
| John Campbell | 1 | Installed an irrigation system on approximately 200 Oak tree saplings on East Bay Municipal Utility District watershed land at two sites. | 138 |
| Jacob Bleich | 11 | Built two planter beds and a storage bench for Beach Elementary School. | 80 |
| Simon Jacobs | 11 | Prepared site and installed two benches at Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland. | 172 |
| Vincent Phua | 4 | Design and construct 10 solar cookers for guestworkers to take home to Guatemala for use by their families there. | 135 |
| Forrest Harvey | 4 | Built 2 picnic tables for use in Roberts Park in Oakland. | 80 |
| Jack Andreoni | 15 | Built a movable storage unit for yoga studio and adjustable shelving for the glaze room at Studio One, an Oakland run arts program. | 177 |
| Forrest Yeh | 11 | Built a potting bench and planter box for use by children at the Highlands Preschool. | 214 |
2009 Projects
| Scout Name | Troop | Project | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Woelffer | 6 | Built a garden shed for tool and supply storage for St. Mary’s College. | 243 |
| Wesley Motlow | 4 | Constructed 4 benches for outdoor garden at Carl Munck Elementary School in Oakland. | 91 |
| Patrick Nolan | 6 | Built a deer fence around a garden at St. Mary’s College High School in Oakland. | 214 |
| Christopher Turney | 11 | Built cabinets and a box to hold emergency supplies for Wildwood Elementary School | 65 |
| Burr Faughnan | 11 | Designed and built floral risers for Piedmont Community Church. | 94 |
| Patrick Crosby | 6 | Built table with benches; designed and built planter boxes for Corpus Christi School | 143 |
| Owen Hall | 4 | Built a food cart and lost and found bin for Schoolmates (after school program for Piedmont students). | 82 |
| Cole Crossen | 15 | Built two gates and car structure for children to play on at Thurgood Marshall Early Head Start School in West Oakland. | 145 |
| Andrew Watson | 1 | Built three shelving units for First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley. | 109 |
| Michael Carter | 11 | Designed, built and installed a computer accessories cabinet and desk hutch for Wildwood Elementary School Computer Lab. | 203 |
| William Carter | 11 | Designed, built and installed a birch wood bookcase and Celotex bulletin board. | 157 |
| James Ryan | 1 | Built a wheelchair accessible garden box (up to 6 children) for West Oakland Medical Therapy Unit. | 109 |
| Carl Hendrickson | 1 | Built a mobile storage unit to house trombones for Havens Elementary School. | 174 |
| Tommy Adams | 1 | Planted 100 Redwood trees for habitat restoration and Built and posted a sign describing the habitat restoration effort. | 181 |
| Michael Dukas | 11 | Built retaining wall, 14 steps leading to an observation point with a 5 ft bench at Dunsmuir Historic Estate. | 103 |
| Gideon Cohn-Postar | 4 | Built and planted planter boxes, installed irrigation system at Lions Blind Center of Oakland | 136 |
| Hugh Rutherford | 4 | Built two bookcases for the Bay Area Alternative Press. | 67 |
| Alan Litteneker | 11 | Planted trees and built fence at the Oakland Zoo | 117 |
| Louis Mirante | 1 | Trail building at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland | 89 |
| John Hyland | 6 | Designed and built two bulletin Boards for Oak Grove Park in Oakland | 139 |
| Dhruv Amin | 15 | Designed and built two benches and four planter boxes for Piedmont Gardens Retirement Home. | 242 |
| Eric Sezgen | 15 | Designed and installed a drip irrigation system at Oakland Morcom Rose Garden | 271 |