Eagle Project

For the past two weekends I’ve been working on organizing and executing my Eagle project, which is to construct a pair of lecterns for Lynbrook High School. Noticing that we have a shortage of such pieces of furniture, and that they are rather expensive to acquire directly, I decided to build these lecterns to benefit both the faculty and the student population at my school.

I started my project by designing a quick 3D model to lay out the dimensions and get an idea of what it would look like:

And then built it over the course of a weekend with the help of scouts from my troop. This weekend, we put the finishing touches on it by staining and varnishing the wood, so that the color will last longer and the lectern will be sturdier and more durable in general.

A slideshow of the various service project sessions:

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Scouts working on measuring and assembling parts of the first lectern

Some scouts marking out lines to be cut

Mr. Ying getting ready to cut some plywood

Scouts beginning to nail plywood to the frame underneath

A scout positioning a part to be glued.

Scouts working together to use the nailgun

A completed lectern! Not quite stained yet, though.

Scouts discussing what to do next

Scouts working outside

Two completed lecterns!

And the rest of the group...

Scouts beginning to stain the lectern

Scouts sanding down the surfaces

Some more staining

Sanding down the ... other ... lectern

Scouts applying varnish to the lecterns

Finishing up the varnish work

Scouts admiring their work

A few more scouts celebrating

A completed and finished project!

More details about the project can be found by reading my project reports, linked below:

• Day 1 Report
• Day 2 Report
• Day 3 and 4 Report

Thanks to all of the people who helped me out on this project!