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May 16, 2023
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Alison Harrison, Marketing and Communications Director
James Parnell, Scout Executive
16-YEAR-OLD RECEIVES EAGLE SCOUT PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Chesapeake, Va. – Simone Nied, a 16-year-old Eagle Scout from Virginia Beach, was awarded the 2022 Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award by Tidewater Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Nied planned, organized, led, and managed a service project to benefit 70 students from 3rd to 8th grade at Park Place School in Norfolk for the 2021-2022 school year.
She led an effort to collect school supplies, masks, paper towel rolls, and hand sanitizer for the children attending Park Place School, a small school in operation for the past 20 years serving children from low-income families.
Park Place is a free, equitable school choice for quality education. It offers smaller class sizes, individualized learning, and violin lessons for its students. The school is housed inside the Congregation Beth El synagogue Sunday school, connecting an older institution with a newer one.
In addition to receiving the 2022 Adams Award from Tidewater Council, Nied has received recognition as the first person from Virginia to earn the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award USA. Nied is a sophomore at the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School.
Two other Virginia Beach Scouts, Alexander Voloudakis, 16, and Nicholas Voloudakis, 16, received honorable mention recognition for Tidewater Council’s 2022 Adams Award. Alexander renewed the courtyard area at Thalia Elementary School. For his service project, Nicholas constructed an outdoor classroom at Thalia Elementary School. All three Scouts were honored at a recognition dinner on Thursday, May 11, 2023, at the Khedive Shrine Center, 645 Woodlake Drive, Chesapeake, Virginia.
About the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award
The National Eagle Scout Association established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award to recognize valuable service of an exceptional nature by a Scout to a religious institution, a school, a community, or another entity.
The award recognizes the Scout for their Eagle Scout service project, part of the requirements for earning the Eagle Scout Award. Tidewater Council’s National Eagle Scout Association chapter chose this year’s council winner. Each National Service Territory (NST) will pick an NST-level winner from that pool of council winners. A national winner will then be selected from the 16 NST finalists.
About Tidewater Council, Boy Scouts of America
Tidewater Council is the 5th oldest Boy Scouts of America council in the United States, established in 1911. Today, the council serves approximately 4,000 youth and 2,000 adult volunteers in the Virginia cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, and the North Carolina counties of Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Pasquotank, and Perquimans. Information about Tidewater Council is available by visiting TidewaterBSA.com, emailing james.parnell@scouting.org, or calling 757-497-2688.
About the Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the nation’s foremost youth programs of character development and values-based leadership training. Since its inception in 1910, more than 130 million young men and women have participated in the BSA’s youth programs. More than 35 million adult volunteers have helped carry out the BSA’s mission.
BSA programs serve boys and girls ages five through 20, and their families, with age-appropriate curriculums that develop character, citizenship, leadership, and personal fitness.
More information about the Boy Scouts of America is available by visiting scouting.org.
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