Owen Dickson's Eagle Scout Project

My Eagle Scout Project was a food drive in the Enatai neighborhood for the Hopelink organization. The project took place over 2 separate days. One day was June 8th and the other was June 15th. The first day we passed out flyers to all of the houses in the neighborhood and the second day was for picking up the food. On the first day I had 8 scouts and 4 adult drivers that participated. On the second day I had 12 scouts and 7 adult drivers that participated. Finally when I took the food to Hopelink, the total weight of the food that we collected was 1033 lbs.  Thanks to everyone who helped out!!

Cooking Merit Badge Campout at Tolt-MacDonald

On June 7-9 about 10 scouts and 4 leaders went to a cooking campout at Tolt MacDonald park. There we made various types of food, depending on the group. Our group made a stew on Friday night, and noodles for lunch the next day. After we made our foods, some of us went on a hike to explore the park. We had alot of free time, and played some card games to pass the time. Overall it was a fun experience, with lots of time to cook, and lots of time to do other things.


Jason Pyke

International School | 2018


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Eagle Court of Honor

Lee Griffin, Will Helmer, and Riley Hsia just celebrated their Eagle Court of honor on May 19.

Click on the link below to read more.
http://www.bellevuereporter.com/community/213574581.html

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Jason Pyke

International School | 2018

Camporee 2013

On May 3-5 Troop 626 Scouts participated in the annual Camporee at Ensign Ranch.

At Camporee we were lucky to have warm and sunny skies and absolutely no rain! For those of you who don’t know Camporee is an annual event organized by the Order of the Arrow where scouts have fun, preforming skits, practicing essential scout skills and passing different ropes course challenges. The day is split apart into two sections, the first part of the day field events, and the second part of the day high adventure. Field events is basically where you go around the field and are faced with different types of scenarios that force you and your team to work together to overcome. This part of the day focuses on testing your scouting knowledge and skills. High adventure is where scouts work together to overcome obstacles in rope challenges. This part of the day is mainly focused on your teamwork abilities. After this we have the campfire, where scouts gather around at the camp-fire bowl and different patrols perform skits for each other. Overall I think this was a fun, bonding experience between scouts and I would definitely do this again.

Dmytro Banin
Not at all a Historian

Earth Day Eagle Projects

Yesterday was 4/20/13 or Earth day a day to support environmental protection. On this day we had Sam & Gabe Reardon’s Eagle projects.

These were two different projects both at one area (Chism Beach Park).

Sam’s project was to renew a trail by placing mulch to preserve the trail. We would use wheelbarrows to move the mulch and spread it across the trail. Gabe’s project was to remove ivy and other invasive species in the nearby area. It was hard and dirty work due to the steep incline of the slope and the mud but this project was a success as well.

Overall I think this was a great way to celebrate Earth Day as well as help maintain the trail and its slopes. Congratulations to our soon to be Eagle scouts.

Dmytro Banin

Visiting Cascade Mountain Men - an outing to remember!

On February 3^rd, 2013 scouts from Troop 626 spent an exciting few hours at the Snoqualmie Valley Rifle Club as guests of the Cascade Mountain Men and Bear Creek Mountain Men.  Scouts were instructed in the loading and firing of traditional black powder muzzle loading rifles.  

Scouts learned how to pour black powder into the barrel, insert a round lead ball (the bullet), push it down with a rod, and fire at various targets.  Some rifles had cap lock firing systems and others used flint lock systems.  There were flashes of fire out the barrels, plumes of smoke, and lots of noise.  One of the members of the Cascade Mountain Men, Steve Baima, allowed scouts and parents to fire his self-made replica of Davy Crockett’s rife.  

Our hosts had hot drinks for all and when the shooting was over served us hot chili dogs.  A great time was had by all.  A big thank you to our hosts for giving our scouts an outing to remember.

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Tiki Torch Outing

On January 26, 2013, 13 scouts from Troop 626 went to the Tiki Torch outing. The weather was extremely cold, but we started close to the West summit of Snoqualmie and headed on an extremely short, quarter mile trail to the campsite. However, the trail was narrow with snowbanks on either side, so it was extremely easy for the sleds to tip over and cause a 10 minute backup. When we got to the campsite, we found that Mr. Norelius had already set up 4 tents, halving the time it would have taken to set up all of the gear. I think that every scout who went on the trip was extremely thankful to him for this.

After setting up the rainfly, we scouts were allowed to play in the snow. We built snow caves and snow tunnels, went sledding, and had a snowball fight with snow shovels. Around 4:30, we started trying to make a fire. We had to keep moving the fire though, because the fire would melt the snow underneath it and then go out. By nightfall, the Tiki Torches had been lit, making a really cool scene as the orange light from the fire blended with the dark green trees and the soft white snow. Everyone went to their tents around 8:00 and eventually fell asleep.

All of us scouts woke up at 7:00 in the morning to the sound of cannons. The WDSOT had apparently caused avalanches now to make sure that an avalanche would not happen later and hurt somebody. I could see why: it had snowed around 10 inches over the night. So after another 8 cannon blasts (and several jokes about the Hunger Games), we started making another fire and hot water for breakfast. By the time we all were ready to go, so much snow had fallen that we were sure that we had left something behind, covered with snow. The trip was really fun, even though it had snowed the whole time.

Reshan Fernando