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Schmitt, who became involved with
Scouts BSA through his son Jack. “Merit
badges, leadership positions, camp outs ...
you’ve got cooking, you’ve got leadership
with younger kids, all that sort of stuff. So
by the time you get through it, you’ve done
quite a bit. You’ve been exposed to quite a
bit. Hopefully, you have acquired some
skills that will serve you well somewhere
... and then maybe found a hobby or two.”
Like everyone else, Troop 379 had a
tough time when the pandemic initially
began.
“We probably had about a six-month
hiatus on everything - meetings, projects,
all that sort of stuff,” Schmitt said. “By the
time we could get back outside and meet
outside, we did.”
But even when some people became
more comfortable meeting outside and
could begin working on getting Eagle
Scout projects done, others had to get cre
ative.
In lieu of doing a typical Eagle Scout
project, Sam Shapira - now a freshman
at Oglethorpe University - did something
different.
Shapira, who was diagnosed with epi
lepsy when he was in the ninth grade, took
to YouTube to teach people about how to
help someone having a seizure. Drawing
inspiration from the viral Ice Bucket Chal
lenge - which involved people pouring ice
cold buckets of water over their heads to
raise awareness for the neurological dis
ease ALS - Shapira asked viewers to try
their hand at saying what some consid
er to be the hardest tongue twister in the
English language - “Pad kid poured curd
pulled cod” - and then shared first aid ad
vice for seizures.
“At the time, we were dealing with the
pandemic and were very aware that doing
a normal type of construction-based Eagle
project could be a risky event that could
be a spreader event,” Shapira said in an
email. “I’d already been interested in us
ing the internet and making videos at the
time, so I understood the tools. Plus, I tend
to be the type of person to try and think
outside of the box, and this seemed like an
interesting project that would stand out.”
Shapira shared the video among dif
ferent scout troops and on social media to
spread the word. The video had 861 views
on YouTube as of late November.
Shapira attended the Eagle Court of
Honor on Oct. 31. He said earlier that he
was excited to see his former scout troop
again after so much time apart.
“It will be interesting, getting to in
teract with my scout troop again and see
how they have progressed,” Shapira said.
“I definitely am interested in what type of
projects they did in this post-pandemic en
vironment.”
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