At the ripe old age of 13, Allison went up for her Eagle Board of Review. She has had all of her required 21 merit badges for almost a year now, so it has mostly just been waiting on time that is required in Star, and Life ranks to achieve Eagle.
Allison did her Eagle project on April 9, 2022 and after fixing a few situations was able to get all of turned into the Richmond Animal Care & Control (RACC). It took a very long to time do her paperwork but she finally got all of it done and turned in on May 30th of this year. She was the sixth girl to turn in all of her paperwork out of all the girls that are in her troop. Even though she started scouts 9 months after girls were allowed to be in scouts, she was still the 6th Eagle!!
At that point they were STILL only doing virtual Board of Reviews and they were only doing them on Monday and Wednesday nights. PROBLEM!!!! Allison (and Michelle) were on TWO summer swim teams this year they had swim meets on Mondays and Wednesdays!!!! So that was a hindrance to getting her Board of Review done. They finally started doing in person Eagle Board of Reviews and so she was scheduled for Thursday, June 30, 2022. I was hoping and praying that our Wednesday night swim meet didn't get postponed to Thursday night because that had already happened twice this swim season.
Thankfully, Thursday, June 30th came and we were all set for Allison's Eagle Board of Review.
We had some awesome people from her troop that were on her Board of Review. We may or may not have hand picked them.
She had:
Jacquelyn Ambrose...her daughter and Allison are best friends:)
Brad Bateman....he was Matthew's scoutmaster when Matthew moved from our church troop into a community troop. He was on most of the campouts that Allison was on and he knew how awesome she was, especially at knots and so many other things. He also knew that we are LDS and that not many LDS people continued in scouting after our church pulled out of it. He has been so impressed that Allison is LDS AND a girl AND in scouts! He has been saying for the past 3 years that he wants to be on Allison's Eagle Board of Review, so we made that happen.
Stephanie Hyra....her daughter is a younger scout in Allison troop, but then her other daughter is only about 9 and she was on Allison's 2nd swim team. Allison taught her how to swim butterfly.
Then of course, Allison's INCREDIBLE Scoutmaster, Jennifer Bateman was right there by her side.
Allison passed with SOARING colors!!!!
I got a picture with these awesome people.
There were also 3 other people from the council but I don't know them.
These are from left to right
Stephanie Hyra, Jacquelyn Ambrose, Allison Thomas, Jennifer Bateman, and
Brad Bateman
This was the first in-person Eagle Board of Review that Allison's Scoutmaster had ever done before!
There were 3 other scouts that did their Eagle Board of Review that night as well. The Scoutmaster's daughter definitely skipped a big line to get that spot considering she didn't even get her paperwork turned in until the Saturday before, and it is suppose to take at least two weeks for all of that to even happen.
Allison was the first one out of her Eagle Board of Review so she was the 6th one from her troop to earn Eagle!! To think that she was the youngest by over 2.5 yrs when she first started. She was probably around the 20th girl to join the troop that first start up year, and yet she is the 6th Eagle!
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