Troop 600

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  • Troop 600 Eagle Scout Stewart Chipman Earns National Medal for Outdoor Achievement

    Stewart Chipman, an Eagle Scout with Troop 600 (Oak Ridge, NC), earned the National Medal for Outdoor Achievement, one of Scouting’s highest outdoor honors. Only a small number of Scouts nationwide receive it.

    Stewart worked toward the medal for three years. Along the way, he earned National Outdoor Achievement Award segments in camping, aquatics, hiking, and conservation; became a Leave No Trace Trainer; and earned his Wilderness First Aid certification. He has camped more than 125 nights and hiked over 200 miles, including treks at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, and his aquatics training includes lifeguarding, SCUBA diving at the Florida Sea Base, and mile swim.

    Stewart has also given back as a leader. He has served Troop 600 as Senior Patrol Leader, Quartermaster, and now Junior Assistant Scoutmaster, worked on the aquatics staff at Camp Cherokee, and is a Brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow. His Eagle project, a flag collection and retirement center at Oak Ridge Town Park, won the Old North State Council’s 2020 Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award.

    Stewart started Scouting as a Cub Scout in first grade and is the third Eagle Scout in his family.

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  • Troop 600 Scout Earns National Medal for Outdoor Achievement

    Troop 600 Scout Earns National Medal for Outdoor Achievement

    Troop 600 (Oak Ridge, NC) Eagle Scout Landon Hodgin earned Scouts BSA’s highest award, the National Medal for Outdoor Achievement. Only a small percentage of scouts nationally receive this award.

    Troop 600 Scout Earns National Medal for Outdoor Achievement
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  • Troop 600 Eagle Scout Shines in the Outdoor “Laboratory”

    The Northwest Observer followed Troop 600 (Oak Ridge, NC) on a February 2018 backpacking trip to tell the story of Eagle Scout Evan Pardue, then a 17-year-old sophomore at Lionheart Academy.

    Carrying a full pack, Evan led the troop on the 13-mile Rock Castle Gorge Trail in southern Virginia, a hike that climbs more than 1,800 feet in its first four miles over rocky, root-covered ground. When the trail got tough, he leaned on a personal motto he had picked up on an earlier trek at Philmont Scout Ranch.

    Evan is on the autism spectrum, and his early days in the troop weren’t always easy. His father, assistant Scoutmaster Ben Pardue, described the moment it clicked for Evan that being part of the group meant working with it. From there, he grew into a leader.

    Scoutmaster Mike Matzinger calls the outdoors the troop’s “laboratory,” the place where Scouts put what they learn at weekly meetings into practice on monthly hikes and campouts. The article also traces Troop 600’s roots: parents formed the troop in 2006 after one asked Mike to welcome a boy with autism whom other troops had turned away, and including every Scout has been part of its identity ever since.

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