 Current Eagle Scout Candidates and Their Projects
Only 4 Scouts out of 100 make it all the way to Eagle Scout. This is not surprising. The older a boy gets the busier he is, and the harder it gets to keep his steps moving forward on the path to Eagle. His life fills up with homework, sports, girls, a car! Frankly, he also faces the peer pressure that can sometimes convince a boy that the Scouting program is ‘uncool.’ Add to this mix the difficulty of the specific requirements that a Scout must fulfill to earn the Eagle badge. He has to serve for over a year in a Position of Responsibility for his troop, he has to earn a total of 21 merit badges, including 12 required badges, and he has to design and implement a service project that requires over 100 hours of work, benefits his community and allows him to demonstrate his leadership skills. A Scout who has set his sights on earning Eagle rank has to write up detailed reports about what he plans to do for his service project and what he has done; he has to appear before panels of adults several times, first to get approval for his project idea and later to demonstrate to them that his completed project was a success; and at the end he has to appear before another panel of adults, some of whom he has never met before, ready to answer any and all questions about his Scouting career. It’s a long and difficult path, and any Scout who makes it to the end deserves our respect. The Eagle Scout Promise: I reaffirm my allegiance
To the three promises of the Scout oath.
I thoughtfully recognize
And take upon myself
The obligations and responsibilities
Of an Eagle Scout.
On my honor I will do my best
To make my training and example,
My rank and my influence
Count strongly for better Scouting
And for better citizenship
In my troop,
In my community,
And in my contacts with other people.
To this I pledge my sacred honor.
We have 2 Scouts that are well on their way to Eagle. All the Scouts are invited to work with the Eagle Scout candidates and support the progress of their projects. | Ryan Friedrichsen | | 
Connor Johnson Survey and information distribution around emergency preparedness for the Weston residents | | Other candidates: TBD |
| Troop 788 Eagle Scouts   Michael Fraade For Michael's Eagle project, he built four Arks to hold Torahs for Camp Ramah, a Jewish summer camp in Massachusetts. The Arks were built from wood, with assistance from local carpenter Larry Liggett. The project used both Scouts and campers in order to build and decorate each Ark, and now all four are in regular use at Camp Ramah for rituals and prayer. Exemplifying the principle that a Scout is reverent, the project helped give hundreds of campers the opportunity to connect more strongly to Judaism in their everyday camp lives. | |  Zach Galasinski
Support Bisceglie Park renovation by fixing and re-painting local buildings (life guard station, tool shed and others). | 
Ryan Huang (January 2008) With the Town of Weston sponsorship and support, Ryan completed successfully his project of restoration and renovation of the Weston Senior Center. |  Greg Pross (January 2008)
Installed tick habitat signs in high risk areasto alert residentsand visitors to take personal protection measures to avoid tick-borne illness. Signs had been posted on school grounds, at town parks, the Saugatuck Reservoir, and Devil's Den. Greg, who suffers Lyme disease, said this projectwas a way for him to fight back. The project was sponsored and funded by the Westport-Weston Health District. Greg completed successfully his Board of Review in the Summer 2007 | 
Stephen Frydrych (June 2007) Planned, organized and executed a major food drive for the community. |  Mark Costello (March 2007)
Survey for Weston High School's alumni to compile a database of alumni who have gone on to careers in the arts. Along with names and job descriptions, the comprehensive database is set to include all contact information. Mark wanted to be able to see and feel the benefits of his projects within Weston High School and worked on this project together with over 15 other high school students. |  Michael Blau (January 2006)
Repair, clean, package and send 90 bicycles to Honduras "Initially, I would have been happy had my project rendered only fifty or sixty usable bicycles. When I finished the final tally and realized that almost one hundred bicycles were being sent to Honduras, I was overjoyed! The pleasure of exceeding one's own expectations was yet another lesson I picked up along the trail to Eagle."
|  Ryan McLoughlin (June 2006)
Facelift to the historic Weston Post Office "I think that the most rewarding part of My Eagle Scout Project was simply the Thank you's. Having people come up to me and thank me for my work made it all worth while." |  Matthew Wiethoff (June 2006)
Built 5 eight-foot picnic tables for the pavillon at the Bisceglie Park "It was a relief to have all five tables delivered to the baseball fields at Bisceglie-Scribner Park in the pavilion. I was surprised how good they looked and everyone thought they were better looking and built better than the tables that were removed…"
| | Daniel Glaser (April 2005) Refurbishing of the entrance to the Nature Conservacy's Katherine Ordway Preserve - Dan worked with the Nature Conservancy to renovate the entrance areas to the Katharine Ordway Preserve, on Good Hill Road, lead several scouts in putting in over a hundred hours of effort in that project. As part of the project they cleaned up the parking area, cutting back brush and removing overgrowth, and stripped, painted and reset the entrance gates. | | Will Kriewald (March 2005) Child safety program - Will worked with the Weston Police, to make more generally available a packet of information useful in missing child cases. Will discovered that while there was such a packet available through the Police Department, less that 1% of the parents in Weston have taken this packet, much less filled it out. Will arranged for several opportunities for Weston parents to see and complete of these packets which include pictures, finger prints, hair samples and other material useful in missing child cases. Will arranged for finger print training for the Scouts, who will in turn fingerprinted youngsters. In pursuing his projects, he set up a booths at the Town Fair, at Weston Center and other locations to provide for opportunities to fill out this helpful packet. | | James Blau (March 2004) Flag retirement ceremony and placing of flags at Coley Cemetery - James organized a community flag renewal program, including 1) conducting a flag retirement ceremony as per the specifications of the US Flag Code, and 2) providing encouragement and opportunity for Westonites to purchase new flags at cost. James’ project included an educational component, to educate the people in Weston as to the care of the flag. He also worked to encourage patriotism among the citizens of Weston, by allowing them to buy new flags, replacing flags which had been up since the 9/11 disaster. Finally, he organized a flag retirement ceremony, a moving and patriotic celebration tied in with Weston’s Fourth of July celebration | | Brian Conant (November 2003) Restoring and refinishing the artillery pieces at the New York Military Academy - Brian did his project at his school, the New York Military Academy, Cornwall-on- Hudson, NY The project entailed cleaning and repairing two ornamental cannons, at the gate to the school. Brian spend a large number of hours sanding, scrubbing, brushing and cleaning two old cannons, before painting the cannons as part of a spruce-up campaign. | | Douglas Werth (June 2003) Flags for the Weston Veterans Memorial - Doug created the patriotic display of flags surrounding Weston’s memorial garden, on the lawn adjacent to the library. After a significant effort in obtaining approvals, Doug arranged for flag donations, and for flag holders to be installed around the memorial inscriptions. Scouts of Troop 788 continue this patriotic display today, putting the flags on display for any patriotic holidays. |
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