Warren Zhang earns Eagle Scout Award

At a recent Eagle Court of Honor, Warren Zhang was presented with the Eagle Scout Award, the highest award for boys in the Scouting program. Warren is the son of Haixia Zhang of Pleasanton, California and attended Amador Valley High School.

Warren is a member of Troop 908, sponsored by Saint Clare Episcopal Church. He earned a total of 36 merit badges and achieved the Eagle Rank with all three Eagle Palm awards. He was patrol leader at Boy Scout summer camps each summer and volunteered as a youth staff member of the Twin Valley Cub Day camp. He has been involved in both Cub Scout and Boy Scouts for the past 12 years providing over 100 hours of community service.

Warren played baseball and served as an umpire for the Pleasanton Little League, played basketball and served as a coach for Pleasanton Youth Basketball, played 12 years of piano, achieving a diploma in piano, as well as playing other instruments and was in the marching band throughout high school. He also loves snowboarding, traveling and reading.

In the summer of 2016, he worked at Henan Dongzhai Bird National Nature Reserve in Xinyang, Henan province of China to serve as an intern for a bird research project.

For his Eagle Scout project, Warren built a Shako cart to hold marching band hats for the Amador Valley High School Marching Band, because the 2018-2019 class would have almost 100 more marching band students and they desperately needed a way to store the extra gear. He built it with supplies that were purchased with money he earned on his own by working as a baseball umpire. He organized a working group of around 3-7 scouts and 2-4 adults each day working with him on the project, and he directed his team exactly how he wanted the cart to be built according to his detailed plan. From beginning to end he worked together with his team and is really happy to be able to give back to an amazing program.

Warren is currently a bio major at UC Riverside. He plans to go into medicine and either becomes a physician or physician assistant.

To earn the rank of Eagle Scout, a Scout must be active in their troop, provide leadership, earn 21 merit badges including the areas of citizenship, camping, communications, cooking and lifesaving or emergency preparedness as well as demonstrate that they live by the principles of the Scout Oath and the Scout Law.

They must also plan, develop and give leadership to others in a service project benefiting a religious institution, school or community group.

Anyone interested in joining any level of Scouting can contact the Twin Valley District Executive, Matt Lindberg, matt.lindberg@scouting.org.