Hundreds of Addresses,
Service Project Ideas,
and Ceremony Plans

by Ed Henderson
Associate Editor

The SCOUTER Internet Compass website at http://www.SCOUTER.com has dramatically updated and expanded its Eagle Scout Section by adding more than 200 new links during the past few months.

Among the sections of the site are several web pages with more than 500 distinguished Americans, many of them Eagle Scouts themselves, who will be delighted to send a letter of congratulations to a new Eagle Scout

The site can be visited now at: http://compass.SCOUTER.com/Skills_and_Advancement/Advancement/Eagle_Scout

We are still looking for links. If you have additional links for Eagle Scouts, send them to us. There is an online form for adding new links.

At the front page of the Eagle Scout section are some of the best known and most comprehensive of sites like http://www.Eaglescout.org, that deal with all aspects of the Eagle Scout award. There are also eight broad categories of Eagle Scout Subdirectories that include:

Award Requirements
Detailed rules, which have been corrected to 1998 standards, include the requirements for Eagle Palms & Alternate Eagle Requirements for disabled Scouts.

Congratulatory Letter Sources
We have assembled links to the four largest directories of distinguished Americans who will write letters of congratulations to Eagle Scouts. Over the years, this has become one of the most popular points on the SCOUTER’s Compass.

Eagle Ceremonies
Some of the best and most unique Eagle Ceremonies ever conducted can be found here. Among the 11 sites are samples of unique Scouting poetry and charges for use at Eagle ceremonies.

NESA (National Eagle Scout Association)
See how NESA chapters have formed around the country with the interesting programs and the many services they perform. Of special interest here are the NESA Chapters at the five military academies of the United States.

News Reports of Eagles and their Projects
Who said newspapers don’t tell the good news of Scouting? Many papers not only print Eagle Scout Award articles, they publish them on their web sites. This is also a good place for parents and leaders to go for ideas on how they might prepare a press release for their Scout, as well as getting an idea for Eagle Projects.

Scholarships and Honors for Eagles
Once you become an Eagle Scout, a lot of doors are opened to you. An Eagle Scout gets an automatic pay grade and rank increase in the military and there are quite a few scholarships, honors & other recognitions exclusively for Eagle Scouts.

Service Project Ideas and Examples
Several Eagle Scouts have developed web sites as a part of their Eagle projects. You can also find several council collections of various Eagle Scout projects.

Troop and Council Eagle Recognitions
Over 30 examples of how troops, districts and councils pay tribute to the Eagles in their communities. This is a great place for ideas on how to recognize your top Scouts on your troop’s website. Several councils are also using the web to aggressively conduct Eagle searches in their communities.

For additional information on planning Eagle Court's of Honor, refer to the Eagle Court of Honor Handbook.