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I am more familiar with the Gold Award requirements at this point because my daughter already attended the workshop so I've seen the packet they gave her. They do still expect 50+ hours of her time to be spent on the project. I suggested that she talk with her principal about the schools' needs. We are undergoing massive budget cuts and I'm sure there is something she can do around the school to improve things. The only problem there may be interfering with the unions. She is also considering doing something with a homeless shelter but she really isn't sure what direction she would go with that.
I guess I see why it seems like all the Boy Scouts do the same thing. Most of them do some project at Historic Fort Wayne or their church and it's usually yard work, gardening, painting or rebuilding something. My son has helped other boys with a lot of theirs. Several of our committee members are on the board of the Fort Wayne Preservation Society so it's a fairly easy project to do something there. I guess I was encouraging innovation and maybe that's not really necessary.
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