El Puente Garden Benches

Submitted by djfreit on Mon, 05/23/2022 - 20:25
Max
Mallett
Benefiting: 
El Puente Elementary School
Date of Eagle: 
Friday, May 14, 2021

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Max decided to do his Eagle Project for El Puente Elementary School. He attended El Puente when he was younger & wanted to give back to the school. It is a bilingual school & is combined with Milwaukie Elementary School.

Originally, Max wanted to clean up the garden area at the school & build some benches to add to the garden area. But due to Covid-19 restrictions, no access to the school facility was allowed. Since he wasn’t able to enter the school, he decided to make benches for the playground area instead.

Max worked with his father to make sample benches beforehand until he found a design that he was happy with. Once he acquired the needed materials, he hosted work parties at this house & in his garage to complete the benches. Max directed the Scouts & other workers on how to build the benches.

Once the benches were completed, Max found out found out that the janitorial staff had cleaned up the garden area & the restrictions had changed so Max was excited to be able to place the benches in a nice garden area in the end after all.