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The Eagle Candidate provides a list to the BOR of the people who he led and how many hours each of them spent on his project. My son led a three-day project. It was supposed to be 4 but they finished the project early. His volunteers logged over 120 hours. His project, like those of most of the boys in his troop, was a construction project of sorts that benefited the community.
The Gold Award expects the project to involve leadership but the Scout only turns in HER hours spent on the project, not her volunteers. The Gold Award used to require 50+ hours of the candidate's time . It may still be the same but my daughter earned her Gold Award in 2003 so who knows. Her project involved training Cadette Scouts in a skill and then they all taught elementary school children the particular skill. With their newly acquired skills, the young ones created items for a children's charity.
Both BSA and GSUSA (at least our councils) frown upon collection projects as valid Eagle/Gold Award projects.
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....but some are more equal than others.
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