Thursday, March 12, 2009

Seth's Eagle Project Status . . . COMPLETE!

Seth made it perfectly clear, "I'm not doing anything with digging!" The last few Eagle Projects he helped out on involved lots and lots of digging. Digging that was needed for electrical lines at a park, digging for play equipment at another nearby park . . . digging, digging, DIGGING! Seth knew exactly what he DID NOT want to do for his Eagle Project. So, in an effort to find something that he DID want to do, he asked his principal at school if he had any ideas. Well, he did. In fact, he has quite a few ideas involving getting all the classroom prepared for an emergency lock down. The principals plan includes a porta-potty, food and water, and first-aid kits in each of the 50 classrooms. Seth took on putting together the first-aid kits.

Seth had to do some research (with the help of Carp) to figure out how much it would cost to put a first-aid kit in each classroom. At $15.00 a kit, Seth had to raise $750.00. That was no small feat! So, during SEP conferences in October, Seth set up tables with information about what his Eagle Project was and how it benefited his school. He was given permission to ask for donations. He made over $400.00 in the two nights he and Carson camped out at the entrances upstairs and downstairs at the school.

Seth greeted the parents and students that entered the junior high upstairs. I sat with Seth and was entirely impressed with his sales pitch. He knew what his goal was and what he talking about!

Carson manned a booth downstairs. He was really helpful!


Seth received additional donations from family members and friends. He also wrote letters to nearby businesses and received gift cards from Walmart and Costco. It took him a while, but by December he was ready to place orders for the supplies. He and his Dad went through information on the internet and our school district catalogue and placed the orders with the help from a sweetheart of a finance gal at the junior high. (Kudos to K'Ann! You are a gem!) He also used the gift cards to purchase items at Walmart. Some of the stuff was on back order from the district. We got the last of the stuff a couple weeks ago. Seth was set. He had to iron out a plan on how to get the kits put together.

This last weekend Seth had the kids separate the cotton swabs into snack baggies in preparation for his project on Tuesday. On Tuesday we set up tables and with the help of friends and scout leaders, Seth ended up with 50 wonderful first aid kits.


The most time consuming part was putting a variety band-aids, wipes, tweezers and tongue depressers in baseball card holders. The baseball card holders allow the small items to stay separated and easy to access.



Lots of people showed up to help!



The end product: 50 first-aid kits ready to go in each classroom at Seth's school.

There might be some of you out there wondering why Seth didn't just buy a pre-made first-aid kit instead of going through all the trouble to plan the contents of each kit, ordering each item, prepping the to show volunteers how he wanted to put them together, and then actually putting them together. Yeah, it would have been quicker. Yeah, it would have been easier. BUT - what would Seth have learned? That's why this process is often refered to "earning his Eagle Scout Award." He had to go through all those steps to "earn" it.

10 comments:

Kristine said...

That is awesome! Congrats on a job well done!

Ella said...

Miss Kellie Kudos to you for raising such awesome Kids, You are the best Mom I have seen in a long time, I proud that people are out there "earning" instead of going with the easy route. The world needs more of that. Great Job!

Ella said...

Oh I also have to say Love the pic of the whole Family Helping out!

Shauna said...

Well done to Seth, and Mom! Could we come have a basic Scout Parenting for Dummies lesson from you some time? I feel like a complete NOOB about this whole process. Watch the caller ID--I may be calling sooner than later for scout-interpretation help and advice.

Congrats to Seth! And yea for our school!

tammy said...

Congratulations Seth! You really did a lot of planning and pre-work to even get the kits ready to put together! You should be dang proud of yourself! Eagle Court of Honor here Seth comes!!

Nicholle said...

That is so awesome! When Shauna calls for help, will you three way the call...we have no clue!

Carterista said...

Seth, I "DIG" your eagle project. Way to go!

My favorite picture is the one with the hole fam around the table.
Good times!

Dave said...

Seth: I wanted to thank you for the this super-complete first aid kit. It will really come in handy at the wood shop. What a great Eagle project!

Sincerely,

Mr. Myers
Pleasant Grove Jr. high

Bonnie said...

Seth thank you so much for the first aid kit. We will take it with us when we take students to the ropes course. It will really come in handy. Thanks for all your hard work.

Denise said...

Seth -
Thanks for the terrific first-aid kits. I'm very impressed with how well they are stocked. GREAT JOB! I hope we never have to use it, but it feels better knowing it's in my closet. Thanks again!
Mrs. Lund
PGJHS English