He will receive his Eagle rank at his Eagle Scout Court of Honor scheduled for May 23^rd in the sanctuary of Kingswood UMC. The ceremony will begin at 3 p.m.

   Trevor attained his rank following approval of his Eagle Scout Service Project and the completion of 21 Scouting merit badges (Trevor has 23) and the community service and camping requirements for rank advancement in the Boy Scouts.  Fewer than 5 percent of Boy Scouts ever achieve the rank of Eagle Scout.

   To complete his service project, Trevor planned the project, including a financial budget and resource list, and led a team of Scouts and citizen volunteers in implementing an erosion control and safety improvement project at the Brook Run Dog Park, located in the Leanne Levitan Park at 4700 North Peachtree Road. Trevor worked with Just a Walk in the Park, a citizens group chartered by DeKalb County to maintain the popular park.

    Over four full days in the fall of 2009, the team used downed logs and recycled landscape timbers to create earth berms to control water runoff on the forest floor of the park. Next they planted monkey grass, obtained by donations around Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Chamblee, behind the berms and distributed wood chips over exposed roots. They reduced the silt buildup at the down slope fence line that had threatened to create gaps in the fence. The team also helped the dog park volunteer group place landscape cloth and pea gravel for a dog play area.

   To help maintain the park for the future, Trevor had the team create a monkey grass nursery just outside the fence so future erosion problems can be corrected.  Trevor, his fellow Scouts and the citizen volunteers contributed over 400 hours of work on the project.

   Trevor is the Senior Patrol Leader for Troop 477, which has produced 96 Eagle Scouts in its 36 years. He was recently inducted into the Order of the Arrow, Scouting’s National Honor Society. He is a member of the Etowah Chapter of the Egwa Tawa Dee Lodge 129 of the Order of the Arrow. He is a graduate of Scouting’s National Youth Leadership Training program and has attended two of Scouting’s High Adventure Camps – canoeing the Boundary Waters wilderness at the Northern Tier High Adventure camp near Ely, Minnesota, and primitive camping off the Florida Keys at the Seabase High Adventure Camp. Next month Trevor will backpack with his troop for nearly two weeks at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, to complete Scouting’s “triple crown” of high adventure camping.

   This year Trevor placed first in the DeKalb County Regional Science and Engineering Fair, Senior Division, Physics. In 2007 he placed first on the state level at the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair for a chemistry project evaluating the efficacy of tent fabric waterproofing products, a project that also earned him a National Semi-Finalist spot in the Discovery Channel’s Young Scientist Challenge. 

   He has earned Chamblee Charter High School’s Bulldog Service Award for community service for the past two years.  He has participated in the NASA-sponsored Science, Engineering, Mathematics & Aeronautics Academy at Fernbank Science Center since Second Grade. Trevor has been a violinist in CCHS orchestra and enjoys playing guitar, soccer, and Ultimate Frisbee in his spare time.

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