For freshman David Marshall, the ascension to becoming an Eagle Scout has been quite the journey. Marshall, who has been in the scouts since he was in elementary school, spent more than two years working on gaining the Eagle Scout honor.

“It took me so long because I focused on things like schoolwork and sports for about a year and a half, but then I started working on my Eagle Scout Project,” Marshal said.

To become an Eagle Scout, Marshall had to complete merit badges, help lead his troop and complete a service project for the community, known as an Eagle Project. Believed to be the hardest project to complete.

“I built an 8×12 shed for Ellisville Athletics Association,” he said. “It was rough. We built it in the middle of summer and it was really hot. Also, one of the adults shot himself in the finger with a nail gun.”

Marshall and a group of volunteers met every weekend to build the structure, which took the group about 8 weekends to finish.

“The process of becoming an eagle wasn’t necessarily hard, but it took a long time. It just required patience,” Marshall said.

Also, Marshall had to go through a set of interviews with different scouting officials. These included adults in his troop, his scout master and leaders of  his scouting district.

“It was a bit intimidating,” Marshall said,” because there were three adults in there that could ask me questions about anything.”

For Marshall ,finally becoming an Eagle Scout is a relief and is exciting.

“I’m glad that its one of those things that I can look back on and say I did,” Marshall said.