Eagle Scout Award for Saanvi Phaneendra

Saanvi Phaneendra completed her Eagle Board of Review and will be honored at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor on December 5, 2025. Saanvi is the daughter of Phaneendra Ram and Swarna Phaneendra of Dublin.

She is a member of Troop 2942, sponsored by St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. Thanks go to her Scoutmaster, Lorraine Ferguson for her dedication to Scouting and help along the way.

Saanvi has been active in Scouting and has been a leader in the troop as Senior Patrol Leader, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, Assistant Patrol Leader, Quartermaster and Webmaster.

Saanvi loves Scouting because it challenges her to step up as a leader and to serve the community in meaningful ways. Working with her troop, mentoring younger Scouts, and being part of something bigger than herself has shaped who she is. Scouting has taught her responsibility, teamwork, and how to stay calm and focused when things get difficult. Completing the required merit badges gave her an extensive learning opportunity in many different subject areas.

For her Eagle Scout project, mini space space-exploration exhibits were created. Troop 2942 Scouts built custom wooden base boards for the rocket models, cutting, drilling, sanding, painting, and assembling them to fit the varying dimensions of library display cases. Saanvi also led the digital design effort, creating identification labels, informational graphics, brochures, visitor handouts, and marketing materials used at all locations. The exhibits are placed in public libraries, schools, and universities for kids, teens, and visitors to experience 1:144 scale models of modern rockets up close and learn about space advancements, aerospace, engineering, and the future of space exploration.

Saanvi coordinated 18 Scouts from Troop 2942 for the construction of the exhibit materials. The project required over 225 total person-hours, including planning, fabrication, finishing, and preparation of the exhibit. A short video of her project is available at: www.bit.ly/saanvi-project

Saanvi is in the 11th grade at Las Positas Middle College. Her interests include Space Exploration and Artificial Intelligence applications for Space. She is Project coordinator for the AI Club at Las Positas. Her life plans are to explore the vast area of Space with the rapidly evolving aerospace, AI, Robotics technologies and be known as one of the Deep Space pioneers

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

Fil de Cal, Filiberto.deCal@scouting.org.