Honoring Americans Who Make a Difference by Volunteering
Troop 39 offers THE best scouting experience in Chapel Hill. One of the things that sets this troop aside is your ability as a scout, leader or committee member to earn the Presidential Volunteer Service Award with the troop.
Details of the award are available on the PVSA web site however the troop encourages all its members to commit to serve a minimum of 25 hours of service each calendar year. Scouts and adults members who give 25 or more hours into service work outside of the troop but performed as a troop service project will be eligible to earn teh Group PVSA award through the troop
Eligible activities include:
- Your eagle scout project including planning, fundraising, construction
- Others eagle projects – hours you spend working on someone else’s Eagle project.
- Voluntary mulching, e.g. at UUMC
- Touch a Truck (you are raising money for UNC Children’s Hospital)
- Fundraising for a project such as Mountains to Sea trial.
- Special Olympics
- Any other activity through the troop that benefits others outside the troop
The group award level is as follows. Each member of the group needs to perform a minimum of 25 hours for their hours to count towards the group award.
- Bronze: 200-499 hours
- Silver: 500 to 999 hours
- Gold: 1000 or more hours
As of September 3rd 2011, Troop 39 has earned the silver award with 8 scouts and 5 adults qualifying.
| Member(initials for scouts < 18 years old) | hours performed |
| Sam Stargel | 78 |
| Mr FitzSimons | 56 |
| Mrs Richardson | 50 |
| Thomas Richardson | 48 |
| Mr Tomkins | 47 |
| Mr Falquero | 33 |
| TT | 33 |
| CB | 30 |
| Sammy | 28 |
| LC | 27 |
| MC | 27 |
| COK | 25 |
| JC | 25 |
The following scouts have yet to perform enough service hours to earn the award in 2011 but there are plenty more opportunities.
| Scout Initials | Hours earned |
| HC | 24 |
| BH | 23 |
| WC | 21 |
| AR | 21 |
| CK | 20 |
| NF | 20 |
| RM | 19 |
| WB | 19 |
| JP | 19 |
| FM | 18 |
| CL | 18 |
| JJ | 17 |
| EG | 16 |
| NM | 16 |
| JR | 14 |
| HM | 13 |
| JF | 13 |
| ZA | 13 |
| MW | 12 |
| KW | 9 |
| SC | 9 |
| BC | 9 |
| ZB | 9 |
| IP | 9 |
| SP | 7 |
There are 5 more service hours opportunities planned in 2011 including:
- MC’s Eagle Project
- NF’s Eagle Project
- UNC Homecoming (3 hours)
- UNC Graduation (3 hours)
- Centennial Service Project (3 hours)
If everybody in the troop redoubles their focus on service, the troop can earn gold!
