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The most important element of this is the "service to others" aspect. Please post how many cumulative total scout hours were spent on the project. That is the measuring stick among Eagle Scouts regarding the magnitude of their service project.

Looking at his tracking spreadsheet here's the breakdown.

He spent about 65 hours all told working on the project. 8 of those were planning hours and 57 "Execution hours". That includes two 8 hour days welding the bench, and an 8 hour day working with the kids at the fishing event. Fourteen other scouts in his troop contributed about 40 hours of work (doing the rod rehab). Ten Adult BSA members had about 120 hours in the project. This includes mom and dad's time driving him to work on his project, the speaking events he attended and chaperoning him while he did his fund raising. He had a parent with him the whole time he worked on this, often times two. Additionally, the wildlife offices, the shop and the park where he finished the project is about 45 mins away, so there is a good bit of drive time in those numbers. All of that inflated his numbers a bit and he'll have to answer that question during his BOR. The rest of the time from folks that were not mom and dad including meeting with the local council members, and the other leaders that showed up to help him rehab the rods that about 30 hours. Eight non-BSA registered adults contributed over 40 hours to the project. This was his hardest metric to track, because in includes the welding in the shop, transportation of the bench to and from the shop to the powder-coating company and a few other things. Not all of those folks kept good track of their time during the process so he made a bit of an estimate. (Since he paid the company for the powder coating he did not include that time in the tracking.) But if anything, that number is low. According to my math, that's about 265 total hours.

This post was edited on 5/16/24 at 8:14 am