Project Ideas

Updated: April 30, 2025

Here are a some questions that help one review and define if a project will meet the Eagle Scout Service project requirements.

Can the Eagle Candidate do the following?

1. Demonstrate (do) that the Scout can provide a Project that will help others in the community (school, city, parks, religious organizations, etc.)…

2. Demonstrate (do) that the Scout can develop a detailed plan...

3. Demonstrate (do) that the Scout can lead others in the execution of the detailed plan...

If the answers to these three (3) questions are YES, then your project idea is Good and you can begin working on your Project Proposal with the Beneficiary and your Eagle Project Coach to verify that you will be able to meet these requirements. 

Dublin/Pleasanton/Sunol:

• Heritage Park and Museums

  • Pleasanton City Parks

  • East Bay Regional Parks

• East Bay Regional Park District - VOLUNTEER AREAS - Volunteer Applications

  • Your high school (music department, athletic department, special needs department)

  • Your (old) middle school

  • Your (old) elementary school

Project Idea Generators

• • Golden Gate Area council Eagle Projects Map

  • Scout Life - Eagle Project Showcase 

  • From the Palmetto (FL) Council, Dave Harkins built this Eagle Project Idea Generator here.

  • More ideas from Scout-o-rama are here.

  • Article from Boy's Life Magazine is here. Scroll down and read the posts to percolate ideas. Some are Eagle Project worthy, some not. 

  • 100 project concepts on this PDF from MeritBadge.org is here.

  • 100 more projects done by Scouts in Utah are here.

Projects Done by Other Scouts:

• • Planters designed and built for a Center for the Blind. Filled with plants that could be identified by touch or scent — labeled in English and Braille. (M.J.)

  • One boy in our troop built shelving for a charity thrift store in the community. (H.S.)

  • My Eagle Scout project was to build a playground structure for the town of Foxboro, Mass. It was seen as over-ambitious back then, but now when I go back there with my kids (who are Scouts) and they look up and see what they can achieve it was all worth it. (D.F.)

  • My son is building a dog park for our community. (L.B.)

  • A Scout from Troop 357 in Dodgeville, Wis., worked with his church to design and build a outdoor altar for the parish in the church’s cemetery so the congregation can have outdoor mass on occasions like Memorial Day. (J.L.)

  • On the heels of the 2008 economic downturn, my oldest son put on a free weeklong football camp for 120 kids of low-income parents. (M.K.)

  • Door-to-door distributing of information about the harm or inefficiency of outdated prescription drugs, then a collection day. (B.A.)

• Collected 5,000 shoes for the Haitian people in the January 2010 earthquake. He collaborated with NPO Soles 4 Souls to send forth the shoes for shipment. The shoes help protect their feet which were usually bare, from the fallen debris of homes and building, and next from plague diseased grounds from the encampments in poor conditions.

• Cut and created steel slot wrenches, painted them bright yellow, and distributed them for easy turn off of outdoor gas connection.

• Project for the local conservation group. They always have a list of projects. Cleared an area of about 2 acres of the evasive species of trees that they wanted removed to restore the area to natural prairie.

Project Before and After Ideas

• • Extreme Makeovers, Round 1: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 2: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 3: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 4: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 5: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 6: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 7: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 8: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 9: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 10: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 11: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos

  • Extreme Makeovers, Round 12: Eagle Scout project before-and-after photos