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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eagle Scouts are only seen as a significant achievement by people who are into scouts ..which is a fast declining minority.  It’s not a particularly difficult rank to achieve as long as you don’t want to quit scouts. Decades ago the projects and community service aspect was unique but now it’s lackluster compared to what other top candidates are doing. It might carry more importance if the kid is applying to a military service academy but it’s non consequential for a good CS program. [/quote]

Frankly, it is a huge benefit for CS kids.  Why?  Because kids who stuck with Scouting to get to Eagle have had to take on leadership roles, conduct meetings, make presentations, speak in front of groups, teach younger Scouts, research, review and plan group trips, research, review and plan budgets, and communicate effectively with younger and older kids, and adults.  They are largely “nerds”, but they have started down the path of learning all the skills a good and effective manager needs to do well.  Something most CS kids have no clue about.

If you think your kid is a potential engineering/CS kid - get them in Scouting.  [/quote]

Hilarious, scouts is the last thing to encourage if they are interested in CS. Tutor underprivileged kids in math, get on math and science competitions teams, execrable at an instrument, compete in hackathons, start a stem club, build apps for non profits, take a linguistics class at community college. [/quote]

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