MSA (Mine Safety Appliances) has been running a Corporate Eagle Scout Program
for the past 10 years. Here is an overview of what they have done.
MSA compiles the educational and business background for each of their sponsors
and provide that information to Bill Park at Laurel Highlands Council of the Boy
Scouts of America. Bill matches each MSA sponsor with an Eagle Scout who is
interested in that career area. Here is an email template that can be used:
Bill:
Here is the list of this year's 20 MSA attendees for the Eagle Dinner program. 13 of
them are Eagle Scouts and 17 of them have engineering degrees.
I will be the initial contact for all the Eagle Scouts. Please send all the Eagle Scout
biographical information to my office, and I will distribute it to the MSA’s participating
associates. Please call me if you have any questions.
MSA determines a date within a month after the Eagle dinner when they can host all
the Eagle scouts for a Career Day. Since the LHC Eagle dinner is usually the
Tuesday before Thanksgiving, MSA schedules their Career Day just before
Christmas. Preferably this is in late Dec. after school (both college and high school)
is done so that as many Eagle scouts as possible can attend. The high school
students are allowed to miss school to attend educational functions like this, but
sometimes you run into issues with finals just before Christmas.
Each MSA Sponsor contacts his Eagle Scout and arranges to meet him during the
reception just before the Eagle dinner. Everyone sits together at MSA’s table(s). At
the dinner, the MSA Sponsors inform the Eagle scouts about the Career Day and
during the week after the Eagle dinner, each sponsor contacts his Eagle Scout to
personally invite him to the Career Day and confirm whether he can attend.
At MSA, for example, they run the Career Day from 9 am-3 pm. They have about 10
speakers who each talk for about 20 minutes about what they do for MSA. They
also describe their Scouting background, their educational background, and the path
that they followed to get them to where they are today.
As each sponsor talks about what they do for MSA, it gives them a chance to explain
to the Eagle scouts what they do at MSA and tell them about the Company. MSA
choses speakers from all areas of the company and from each major product line
regardless of whether they are involved with scouting or not.
MSA also provides a free lunch for the Eagle scouts and their sponsors. It is a nice
way of saying thank you to their employees for serving as sponsors/mentors. At the
end of the day each Eagle Scout is presented with an actual product from MSA as a
thank you gift.
Here is a template email that could be used:
All:
Thanks to everyone who is helping with the MSA Career Day for the Eagle Scouts
this coming Thursday. The following 13 Eagle Scouts are coming:
(Names of New Eagles Deleted)
Below is the final schedule. The plan is to have the Eagles arrive at the Ryan Lab
around 8:50 am so that we can begin promptly at 9am. We will have presentations
from 9-11:30am in the Cranberry Woods Conf. Room, followed by a tour of the Ryan
Lab. Around 12:15pm we will walk down to the MSA Corp. Center to have lunch.
We will put our coats in Conf. Rm E171 (the conference room across the hall from
the CB plant HR offices, near the cafeteria; we have it from noon-3pm).
Before lunch, we will view the exhibits/history in the main hallway. At 1:30pm we will
convene in E171 to have a couple of presentations and then head out back to the
flame building for a hands on demonstration by Kelly Rollick. We will then do a quick
tour of the CB plant (circuit board mfg.) before we walk back to the Ryan Lab and
wrap things up by 3pm. Everyone is invited to join the Eagle Scouts for lunch in the
Cafe in the Woods, courtesy of the MSA Law Dept. You are welcome to stay for as
little or as much of the day as you want.
Please contact me if you have any questions, otherwise I will see you on Thursday.
9:00-9:20
(Intro)
9:20-9:40
Speaker2
9:40-10:00
Speaker3
10:00-10:20
Speaker4
10:20-10:30
Break
10:30-10:50
Speaker5
10:50-11:10
Speaker6
11:10-11:30
Speaker7
11:30-12:15
TourofRyanLab(JohnG.)
12:15-12:30
WalktoMSACorpCenter
12:30-12:45
SeeMSAHistoryexhibitsinhallway
12:45-1:30
LunchatCafeintheWoods
1:30-150
Speaker8
1:50-2:10
Speaker9
2:10-2:30
Speaker10
2:30-2:45
BriefTourofCBplantandCorpHQ
2:45-2:55
WalkbacktotheRyanLab
2:55-3:00
Wrap-up