Troop 600

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  • Troop 600 Eagle Scout Builds Gear Dryers for Greensboro Fire Department

    For his Eagle Scout service project, 16-year-old Jacob Delveaux of Troop 600 (Oak Ridge, NC) designed and built freestanding dryers for firefighters’ bunker gear and donated two of them to the Greensboro Fire Department.

    Turnout coats can be washed, but a regular commercial dryer damages them, so wet gear can take 12 to 24 hours to air-dry. Jacob’s dryer pushes air through the gear and has valves so firefighters can switch on only the spots they are using, whether that is one coat or several. It dries a full coat in about two hours. Each machine cost about $1,000 in materials, a small fraction of what a commercially made gear dryer would cost.

    Fast drying matters because firefighters keep a second set of gear ready for the next call, and each set costs thousands of dollars. Jacob is also sharing his plans with the department so it can build more dryers for its 27 fire stations across Greensboro.

    FOX8 WGHP shared Jacob’s story in October 2026.

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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 Scoutmaster Receives National Eagle Scout Association Outstanding Eagle Scout Award

    Troop 600 Scoutmaster Receives National Eagle Scout Association Outstanding Eagle Scout Award

    Eagle Scout Mike Matzinger, founding Scoutmaster of Troop 600 (Oak Ridge, NC), received the National Eagle Scout Association Outstanding Eagle Scout Award at the Old North State Council banquet in 2022. He founded the Troop in 2006 and has been involved in Scouting for more than 50 years.

    Troop 600 Scoutmaster Receives National Outstanding Eagle Scout Award
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  • Troop 600 Scout Wins 2021 Eagle Scout Project of the Year Award

    Troop 600 Scout Wins 2021 Eagle Scout Project of the Year Award

    Troop 600 (Oak Ridge, NC) Eagle Scout Holden Pardue is the first Scout on the autism spectrum to receive the Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award.

    Troop 600 Scout Wins 2021 Eagle Scout Project of the Year Award
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  • Troop 600 Believes Scouting is For All

    Troop 600 Believes Scouting is For All

    WGHP shares the story of how a Troop 600 (Oak Ridge, NC) member becomes an Eagle Scout and how one family found a life-changing experience in Troop 600. The Troop is known nationally for its inclusiveness; two assistant Scoutmasters and the Scoutmaster have received the Torch of Gold Award, and the Scoutmaster has earned the Special Needs Service Award.

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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 Scout Wins 2020 Eagle Scout Project of the Year Award

    Troop 600 Scout Wins 2020 Eagle Scout Project of the Year Award

    Troop 600 (Oak Ridge, NC) Eagle Scout Stewart Chipman won the Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award (2020) for a flag retirement center and unserviceable flag collection box.

    Troop 600 Scout Wins 2020 Eagle Scout Project of the Year Award
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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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