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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Challenging compared to what?  I have two boys, one in college.  One achieved Eagle Scout, the other had a leadership position on robotics team.  I would say that the leadership position on robotics team seemed a lot more consuming and took up a lot more time, but Eagle Scout did require sustained effort and persistence.[/quote]

I think that time might look different given the timeline of the activities. Robotics club has a compact schedule to complete their goals while Eagle can be done over the course of 7 years.

My Scout is just earning Life, he is 13. He has helped to plan a high adventure backpacking trip. He did the research on the trip, sent out emails, put together a presentation, and brought together 7 Scouts for a 5 day backpacking trip. He helped plan the gear meeting while the other kids planned practice hikes and weekend backpacking trips to learn skills. That took a good amount of time but it was spread out over a year. We are doing it all over again to go to Philmont this summer. DS ended up with 9 additional nights camping and 80 or so miles of hiking last year. That is a good amount of time in terms of planning, preparing, and actual backpacking. They had a blast.

I would say that DS spends a good 70 hours a month with Scouts, that includes meetings, leadership meetings, camping, and service. I expect that his Eagle project will go well over 100 hours in terms of preperation, coordination, and actual completion of the project. While some eagle projects are building a bench or a little library, most are more complicated than that. All of them require reaching out to an organization, talking to that organization, developing plans, getting the plans approved by the organization and Scouting American Council member, recruiting volunteers, organizing the completion of the project, and executing the project. Add up those hours.

Yes, there are clubs at school that will have more compressed timelines and feel higher pressure, but I suspect that the actual number of hours and over all experiences gained there is more going into earning Eagle.[/quote]

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