Boy Scouts Give Up Entirely, Offer Video Game Badge

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by agzg

That post really has nothing to do with the OP. I wonder if Eagle Scouts can create a video game for their project? That might be really cool, actually, especially if it were educationally-based and could be used to teach reading to little kids or something.

I doubt that would be approved. (Sorry AGDee.) Even if you could work it out as a service project (like for a school), the major compenent of the Eagle project is leadership -- demonstrating leadership skills, both in terms of organization/planning and execution. The idea is really come up with and plan the project and then oversee a group of others in seeing it through to completion. Not sure how that would work with designing a video game.

But it might be worth exploring, especially (I kind of hate to say this) if you're in a district that's a little less strict about the requirements. With some imagination, you might be able to figure out how to make it work.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I doubt that would be approved. (Sorry AGDee.) Even if you could work it out as a service project (like for a school), the major compenent of the Eagle project is leadership -- demonstrating leadership skills, both in terms of organization/planning and execution. The idea is really come up with and plan the project and then oversee a group of others in seeing it through to completion. Not sure how that would work with designing a video game.

But it might be worth exploring, especially (I kind of hate to say this) if you're in a district that's a little less strict about the requirements. With some imagination, you might be able to figure out how to make it work.

Hmm, interesting. Our district may be a little less strict. I think a lot of kids have done their project completely alone. I'm not certain about that though.

[AGDee]

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.

[carnation]

I haven't seen the requirements yet, but so help me--there's an Older Girl Interest Project in Scouting called "Couch Potato".