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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most Food banks are happy to have kids run a food drive for them.  City of Rockville public works always has a list of projects for Eagle Scouts.  Maybe you town has one too.  Surprised his troop is not given suggestions.[/quote]

An Eagle Scout project is much more robust than organizing a food drive.[/quote]

My son as in HS 2015-2018 and they were very accceptable then.  Food drives, book drives, eye glass drives. We saw them all.  I am not sure why construction would be considered a requirement.  A drive requires very similar leadership skills IMO.  My neighbors son did a food drive and the organization said it was the largest drive donation they had ever gotten.  My son was involved in packing and driving and unloading.  Other kids passed out fliers, collected the food sorted it per the orgs preferences.  This was not just a kid picking a couple of cans out of his moms basement.[/quote]

Because planning and running a drive is not that challenging. There is a reason that they had been a go to project for so many Scouts. My Scout is First Class and organized a book drive to collect books for a local ES as part of his Librarian Role. He spent maybe 8 hours total and collected close to 200 books. He found an ES, made a flier, had other Scouts help distribute the flier, had other Scouts help pick up books, and sorted the books. If the project is doable by a 12 year old First Class Scout then it is not really an Eagle Project. That is why our District has said that drives need to be a part of a larger project.

Different Districts may accept a drive but they are falling out of favor in many places. [/quote]

8:hours and 200 books is definitely not an eagle projects.  Drives can be much larger ..[/quote]

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