From: Anthony Mako (ajmako@NLS.NET)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 09:59:44 CST
<Roy Fisher wrote>
Requirement 5 for Eagle Scout reads in part "...You must use the Eagle Scout
Leadership Service Project Workbook, BSA publication No. 18-927A, in meeting
this requirement."
[snip]
I would submit that the downloaded version would be easier to use,
especially since it is virtually impossible to find a typewriter these days.
However, I would hate for a Scout's Eagle award to be kicked back because
the requirment wasn't met (i.e. the specified form wasn't used).
Does anyone out there have experiences they would like to share on this
matter? What are the positions taken in the various Districts/Councils
represented on this forum?
</Roy>
Roy,
Funny you should ask that, I just had a little run-in with a member of our
district advancement committee last Tuesday about that very thing. We had
finally managed to schedule a BOR for the last Scout from the "old regime."
We went through a lot in October and November to get his project done before
his 18th birthday. My advancement chair had given him an older workbook to
write up his project and the error wasn't immediately corrected. His project
was finally approved by the district about two weeks before his 18th
birthday, and it was completed over the next weekend. Three days after that,
I had the final write-up in my hands. His project and application were hand
delivered to the council office two days before his 18th birthday.
On Tuesday, when they sat down to prepare for the BOR, the representative
from the district got stuck on the fact that his project write-up (which was
done on a computer and kept in a three-ring binder) didn't follow the
workbook EXACTLY. He kept saying that the council would reject the
application because the Scout hadn't used the workbook. I had to point out
four times that 1) the workbook HAD been filled out and WAS included with
the write-up in the binder; 2) his write-up included all of the information
asked for in the workbook AND MORE; 3) the project was already completed and
NO ONE was going to reject the application unless the BOR found a compelling
reason not to sign it.
I was well prepared for this discussion because I had already discussed the
issue with the district advancement chair (who was the one who approved the
project). According to my experiences and his, the workbook is essentially a
guideline for drafting the project. It MUST be included with any other
project write-up which MUST, in turn, include all of the information the
workbook asks for. Most of the projects my district sees are done on
computers using the full capabilities of the applications used. The workbook
is ALWAYS a part of the package (that's where the signatures go).
Oh, BTW, the BOR wasn't completed because the district representative found
something else to complain about. He's not a bad guy, he's just someone who
doesn't have all of the information. It's a good thing I know everything!
;-}
YIS
A. J. Mako, ajmako@nls.net, SM Troop 381 http://www.Scouts381.org/
Old Portage District, Great Trail Council, BSA
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