Cool Final Stats From My Project

We added up all the hours and number of people that contributed to my project and have some pretty impressive results!  Check it out:

• 203.5 - The total number of service hours that people donated to my project
• 73 - The number of people that donated time to my project
• 21 were Boy Scouts
• 18 were other youth or kids (including my Church Youth Group and my sisters)
• 9 were registered Boy Scout Leaders
• 25 were other adults
• 44 - The number of people that donated materials or supplies to my project

Also, I wanted to say a special THANK YOU to my Grandma Deb who donated 21.5 hours (or more) to sewing hats, tying blankets, and many other things!  Her ward also donated all of the books to my project from their Children's Book Drive as part of their Christmas Party. 

I also want to thank my Mom (19.5 hours) and Dad (15 hours), who spent a lot more time helping me than their hours show.  Also, a special THANK YOU to all of the people that put in long hours to sew hats for me.  My project wouldn't have been nearly as successful without you!

CJay

Eagle Project Finished! Dropped Off My Project!

Thanks to all those who have donated to my project!  You have not only helped me, but you have also helped a ton of kids that go to Primary Children's Medical Center.  I can't express how much your time and material donations have meant to me...it's hard to put into words!

On Tuesday, December 11th, I dropped off all of the items that I have collected and made to PCMC.  My Scout Troop and Church/Scout leaders went with me along with my Mom, Dad, sisters, and Grandma Deb.  In all, I collected and donated the following items:

• 118 Fleece Blankets 
• 127 Fleece Hats (for cancer patients)
• 162 Clinic Prizes (toys and other items)
• ~50 Books
• 100 of my Cardiology Coloring Books with 100 packs of Crayons

 
When we were at the hospital, the beneficiary contact let us take all of the blankets, clinic prizes, books, and coloring books directly to the Cardiology department.  It was really cool and emotional to be able go into the Cardiology department and put the items in areas where they will start to be given to kids there starting the next day.  We also got to take a box of blankets to the Sleep Lab for kids there to have while doing sleep tests.

One of the coolest parts was being able to meet with my cardiologist and give her one of my coloring books.  It was her idea to make them and she was really excited to find out I created it.  It felt really good to be there with her while she read it.  She loved it!  My dad is doing to send PCMC the coloring book PDF so they can continue to print as many copies as they need in the future!

The beneficiary contact was REALLY excited to see the fleece hats.  Most of the hats we made were for teenaged (or younger) boys.  She said that they haven't had any hats for teenaged boys in a while and that these will help a lot!  She got a little teary-eyed as she was going through them, which made me feel really good that we did that as part of my project.  Also, we are going to be donating the original pattern we used to make the hats since she really liked it and wanted to use that pattern for future Eagle Projects.  This is another way that my project will continue to give back to PCMC in the future. 

We ended up spending about an hour at PCMC to drop off my project.  It felt really good to have my family and Scout Troop there with me.  It was something that I won't ever forgot.  Thanks again to everyone that helped make my project a success!

CJay

Thanks to everyone who has donated fleece to far...it's been very helpful.  We tied blankets earlier in the week (on Tuesday) with my Scout Troop, church youth group, and other family, friends, and people from my church.  We had 56 people show up to help in all!  I was amazed to see so many people show up to help me!  We tied around 75-80 blankets that night in about an hour and a half! 

I now have 84 blankets tied and 14 more that were donated already tied for a total of 98 ready to go to PCMC!  There are a number of blankets (around 15 or so) still out there that people are tying for me so I will be well over my goal of 100 blankets!  I also have 35 hats back that have been sewed by my Grandma Deb and other people in my church.  We have a bunch more out that are still that will be sewed in the next week (somewhere around 80-90).  Here is what I have back so far:

I still have another week to collect clinic prizes and there were a lot of people that signed up to donate.  Here are the clinic prizes I have had donated so far.  

My due date for all donations is next Sunday, December 9th.  I am very excited about how well my project is going so far and having a lot of fun and learning a lot about leadership and how to manage a project. 


CJay

Books! What a surprise!

I found out last night that I will have some books donated to my project as well.  My grandma's ward (church) is doing a children's book donation drive as part of their ward (church) Christmas party next month and they didn't have anywhere planned to donate the books to.  My grandma mentioned my Eagle Project to someone in her ward and they said they would talk to the committee about donating them to my project if they didn't have anywhere else planned to donate them.  My grandma found out yesterday that they want to donate the books they collect from the Christmas party to my project for PCMC.  How cool is that?  It was a big surprise, but I am excited to get more stuff that we can donate to help the kids at PCMC!  Thanks Grandma Deb!

CJay

May the fleece (force) be with us tonight!

I am so excited right now!  My Scout Troop and youth group from my church along with some family and friends are meeting at my church tonight at 7:00pm to help tie blankets!  We have a lot to do and I hope we have a lot of people show up to help.  I have 90 pieces of fleece that are ready to become blankets for the kids at PCMC!  May the fleece (force) be with us...

CJay

Booyah! (fleece goals reached)

Hello!  I wanted to say thanks for all those people who dropped off fleece donations yesterday or who helped in other ways (time, donating supplies, clinic prizes, etc.).  I also wanted to say thanks to my dad's friend Ernest (Cam's dad) in North Carolina for a very nice Paypal donation, which we used last night to go to the store and buy more fleece for blankets.  As of this morning, I have reached my goals for getting enough fleece for over 100 hats and 100 blankets!  I have 90 trimmed pieces of fleece now for blankets and another 14 tied blankets that were dropped off for a total of 104!  We have enough fleece now to also make well over 100 hats!  Booyah! 

90 pieces of fleece sitting on my couch ready to be cut and tied!

Fleece ready to be sewed and cut into hats!

Thanks again to all who have helped with my project so far!

CJay

Getting closer to my blanket and hat goals!

I have had a lot of fleece donations come in over the last few days.  My mom and I spent a good amount of time this afternoon going through all of the fleece and deciding what we will use for hats and what we will use for blankets.  As of tonight, I have enough fleece to make 108 hats and 63 blankets!  Since my project goal was 100 hats and 100 blankets, I think we are doing really well! 

Me and my mom cutting fleece into smaller sections for hats and blankets:

Here's the stack of fleece we have for making blankets (before two more donations came in tonight):

Here's the stack of fleece we have for making hats (including some hats my grandma made already):

Thanks to all who have donated fleece or time to my project so far.  I really appreciate everyone coming together to help me reach my goals and to help make the kids at Primary Children's Medical Center happier!  I only need enough donations to make 37 more blankets!  Thanks everyone! 

CJay