This Eagle Project was for Save The Bay, a nonprofit organization focused on restoring and protecting the San Francisco Bay through habitat restoration and advocacy. The project focused mainly on conservation work at Save The Bay’s native plant nursery in Palo Alto. Volunteers helped weed out invasive plant species, which supported the growth of native plants used for restoration around the Bay. Along with the conservation work, the group also delivered a bench that had been built earlier for Save The Bay volunteers to use at the nursery site. Scouts were asked to wear closed-toe shoes, long pants, and Class B uniforms since the work area was expected to be muddy and outdoors.

Dhruv’s Eagle Project was at Fertile Ground Works. The goal was to renovate the front entrance to make it easier and safer for people using wheelchairs or crutches to move into the garden. The project focused on outdoor work such as deweeding, preparing the ground, and setting up the borders for the new entrance layout. Dhruv, along with volunteers from the troop, worked to clear and organize the area so the entrance could become more accessible for visitors. Volunteers came prepared with clothes that could get dirty, closed-toe shoes, and sun protection since the project involved several hours of outdoor work.

Siddharth’s Eagle Project was for the Sri Surabhi Go Ksetra. The goal was to build a bench for the site, providing a useful seating area for visitors and members of the community. The project consisted of 2 days, with each day focusing on a different task. On the first day, Siddharth, along with scouts from Troop 888, worked on sanding and staining the wood to prepare the materials for assembly. On the second day, they assembled the bench and completed the final construction. Scouts were asked to wear closed-toe shoes and bring safety gloves and glasses to help keep the project safe and organized.

Sarath’s eagle project was spread across 4 separate days. It was meant to digitize DVHS’s music library and organize it accordingly. The first few days of the eagle project were pretty similar. Mainly having scouts pair up to get specific parts of the job done. These tasks would range from checking if the music was copyrighted, adding it to the google sheet, scanning the music, and checking the scan for any mistakes. All of these jobs were vital to make sure that the music could be properly and legally digitized to organize it better. However, on the 4th day he got together a group of scouts to go to DVHS to organize the physical library so that all of DVHS’s music was neatly organized and easy to reach.

Aiden’s eagle project was at Walt Disney Elementary School. The goal was to build a sensory wall with all sorts of music creating toys along with refurbishing a sand and water table. It consisted of 3 days with each day focusing on a different task. On the first day he along with 6 scouts had worked on the sand and water table. On the 2nd day they build the sensory wall and also sanded and painted the sand and water table. Lastly on the 3rd day they attached objects suck as bells and boom sticks to the sensory wall and used wood blocks to cover the nails so that the children wouldn’t get hurt touching them. In the end Aiden along with his fellow scouts were able to make a major improvement to Walt Disney Elementary School with the addition of the sensory wall and sand and water table.

Camp Wolfeboro was from June 22nd till June 28th. It is a week-long summer camp where you can have fun doing activities such as merit badges, camp games, hikes, and more. It is the only summer camp which we go to every year since it is extremely popular and everyone loves it. Wolfeboro has tons of fun activities for everyone. These activities can range from free-shoot to Sourdough. They can also go to places such as Lower or Upper falls where they can have a lot of fun. Many scouts also enjoyed some of the competitions such as the Cooking Competition in which we were able to send in 3 teams from 888. We were also able to gather a total of 17 scouts to come to Sourdough which was about half of all of the scouts coming on Tuesday. There also tons of merit badges available. Wolfeboro offers many eagle and non-eagle required merit badges along with trailheads for the newer scouts. Along with merit badges you can challenge yourself to get rockers. Rockers are little patches which you get from completing a specific set of challenges throughout the week. These rockers range from Marksman, Bard, and of course Sourdough. Finally, for the scouts that want to go above and beyond there are the Wolfeboro Pioneers. The minimum requirements to become a Wolfeboro Pioneer are to have went to Wolfeboro for at least 2 years and must have served at least 1 term of leadership. Everyone had an amazing time at Wolfeboro, whether it was for merit badges, rockers, to become a pioneer, or all of the above. All of the fun activities and opportunities you are given at Wolfeboro make sure that all of the scouts attending have an amazing time.

On Friday, June 20th Aditya hosted a conservation outing at Fertile Groundworks. It lasted from 3:00 PM till 6:00 giving 3 conservation hours to many other scouts who needed them to achieve life rank. In the outing they harvested, cleaned, weighed, and packaged 130 pounds of garlic. Without this project the garlic couldn’t be stored or distributed rendering majority of it useless. The scouts started of by working as a group to pull all the garlic out of the ground. Next they prepared the soil for the next round of crops so that more garlic could be planted. After that, they weighed the garlic and sorted them into bins for donation and storage accordingly. They were also given some gifts to take home for their hard work and effort.

Akshith hosted a conservation outing at Fertile Groundworks on May 23rd. The outing was meant to help improve the garden space overall. Akshith and the participating scouts accomplished this by pulling out large amounts of weeds and planting new seeds. The event took course over an hour from 5 PM till 6PM. The scouts participating were also able to learn about environmental stewardship. After they finished working they were thanked by Fertile Groundworks with some freshly harvested onions which they were able to take home.