The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) "Cache to Eagle" series is a National program to highlight past Eagle Scout projects. This is the eleventh one for the Garden State Council (GSC)! In addition to all of the typical Scout skills you would expect a Scout to have, an Eagle Scout has to do quite a bit more to earn his rank. This includes:
- Earning 21 Merit Badges - 13 required ones and then another 8 from areas that interest the Scout. The required ones are: First Aid, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, Communication, Cooking, Personal Fitness, Emergency Preparedness or Lifesaving, Environmental Science or Sustainability, Personal Management, Swimming or Hiking or Cycling, Camping and Family Life.
- Actively serve in a leadership position for 6 months.
- Perform a service project: "While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project should benefit an organization other than Boy Scouting.) The project proposal must be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your unit leader and unit committee, and the council or district before you start".
The posted will take you to a free library in Cliver Park in Eastampton. The project included coordination with Eastampton Township to be granted permission to perform the work, requesting donations from local hardware stores to obtain materials and supplies and then organizing and coordinating the two phases of construction of the project. Phase one was to construct the libraries and phase two was to install them
The second library, and final to this cache, can be found at N39 59,XXX W74 45.YYY. Go to the posted coords to obtain XXX/YYY and then go get the final!