Max Jones achieves Eagle Scout Award

Maxwell Jones of Dublin and Livermore, CA recently completed the requirements for Eagle Scout and passed the Board of Review.

Maxwell graduated from Granada High School in Livermore, CA. His interests outside of scouting included Varsity football, acting in this senior class homecoming skit, saxophone, representing his class at Boys State, restoring his award winning 1970 Chevy Blazer, and serving as lead petty officer in the US Naval Sea Cadet Corps.

He began Scouting in 2017 and quickly ranked up to first class after attending BSA summer camp. He learned the ways of scouting and most recently served as Senior Patrol Leader with Troop 905, sponsored by St. Raymond’s Catholic Parish. From 2018-2019, Max completed National Advanced Youth Leadership training, National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience at the BSA Philmont Ranch, New Mexico, and represented the USA West while attending the World Scouting Jamboree in Bechtel Summit Reserve, West Virginia. In 2019, Max was appointed to the Order of the Arrow, BSA’s National Honor Society.

Max has volunteered in numerous community service activities such as Dublin’s St. Patrick’s and Splatter Festivals, Tri-Valley’s Scouting for Food, and the annual Scout’s Christmas tree pickup program. Outside of scouting he volunteered for projects as a Lead Petty Officer, with the US Naval Sea Cadets CW Park’s Battalion, where he marched in the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and Pleasanton Veterans Day Parade as part of their honor guard.

For his Eagle service project, Max completed a Veterans Service History project that archived the service records and accomplishment of a dozen US veterans who served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. He led a team of scouts and adults who interviewed and recorded the veteran’s accomplishments from their service years. The results were compiled and accepted by the US Library of Congress and memorialized into the Veterans Service History records at the Library of Congress and National Archive.

He recently joined Cal State University, Cal Maritime where he is a Mechanical Engineering student. After college, he plans to earn a commission and serve as an Aviator for the US Marines.

Max is the son of Paul Jones and Tracy Jones. Due to Covid-19 his board of review was done virtually, and his official Eagle Court of Honor will be scheduled later when his friends and family can celebrate together.