Are you struggling to continue with boy scouts? Feeling intimidated by a project as part of the Eagle Scout Project? Or do you need some extra help to find the right way to complete your project? This wikiHow will help you with all those questions.
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Come up with an idea that you are passionate about. Throughout scouting, you have to do at least a total of 18 service hours. Think about whether you think that it would have helped the community or if it didn't have much of an impact. Did you like what you did for some of the projects, or was it something that you didn’t like to do? Think whether you want to do something to impact a community, church, school, or environment. These questions should help you come up with some ideas.
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Work with the community to plan and get help from the school, church, or community. If you are still struggling to find something to do, ask local schools such as your old elementary, middle, or high School. They normally have something they want to be done and if you say you’ll do it for them, they would be more then happy to accept the offer. Church or environment groups would also be a good outlet to ask for projects to do.Advertisement
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Adapt the idea into something attainable in the time frame that you want. If your 18th birthday is coming up and you only have less then 6 months till then, doing something big is not a good idea. You want to stick with something on the smaller side such as making picnic tables and park benches, cleaning a trial, or any small outdoor project. If you have over that amount of time, you can do something bigger. You can up the scale of any smaller project or come up with ones on your own, such as making a garden, making new trails for a forest park, or redoing something for a school.
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Lay down the basis for what you need to get to make the project possible. Once you’ve decided on what type of project you want to work on, talk to a school, church, community, or organization to see exactly what they want. Some of these options might already have an idea of the, for example, type of picnic tables they want, or where they want such projects to be or take place in.
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Get a good cost outlook of everything in the project. The most important factor of the project is the correct estimation of the cost of the project. This includes mantles, rentals, and food. This could only be a few things you will need for your project.
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Set a date for when you will start the project. The start day is very important for a project, whether it be big or small. You want to give yourself enough time to complete the rest of the steps coming forward, and setting a date for the process to come together on will help volunteers get involved.
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Start fundraising! Fundraising is another important factor of the project. In this phase of the project, gather the support of your project by doing can drives, setting up a GoFundMe or other donation platforms so people can donate, and talking to local companies to see if they want to donate or give you discounts on materials you need.
- Get a Facebook page or any other social media page for your project so the donators can see the progress. Creating a social media page isn’t necessary, but if the project is worth over $5,000 of money, you need to have a place where you can raise support. Here, you can give people live updates on the fundraising and material hunt. You can also show them the progress of the project as you’re building it.
- Talk to companions about donations or discounts. With the addition of a social media page and a donation platform such as GoFundMe, they'll know that you’re not just trying to make a quick buck. Using a Facebook page, you can say that you’ll announce donations on the platform and they’ll get extra publicity, which can encourage them to donate. This is sometimes very persuasive for companies and they’ll normally give you something in return.
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Set up an online calendar to make sure people come to volunteer. Once you are getting closer to the date scheduled, such as a month or two before deadline, make an online calendar that you can share with people. Make sure you have people come to your project at the correct time so that you know that you’ll never be lacking volunteers. This also gives people motivation to come to the project and shows your donators that you are moving forward with your project and you’ll complete it on time so that their donations were worth it.
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Make sure all the proper equipment had been acquired and you have the proper food for the volunteers. Making sure you have all the tools need for your project is extremely important. Having the correct tools for the job is necessary for it to come out the way you want it. Making proper reservations for power tools and having people bring their tools is important as well.
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Make sure the steps to complete your project are easy for people to understand. Making small steps to complete your project is always a good idea. Having these shorter steps gives people more control over what they are doing so they can do it right. You may also have younger volunteers that can always follow along with the adult instructions, so be prepared to explain it so they can understand.
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Guide people and lead them through the process of completing your project. Knowing what needs to be done and where you need people to be is important to the completion of the project. You’ll have people coming in at different times, so you’ll have to get those people to incorporate their work into different parts of the project at different times without slowing it down.
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Make final cleanups around the worksite and make it look amazing once you're finished with the project. Do a final swipe of the project site to make sure it’s nice and clean. Once debris and trash is picked up and the space is cleaned up, announce on your social media page that your project is finished and that you’d like to thank all the donors and volunteers. Give the leftover money to whoever you did the project for and thank them for the opportunity to help.Advertisement
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