FROM ALISON K. ROUSE
Wetumpka Troop 13 Boy Scout Will Noell, a senior at Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School, has recently achieved Eagle rank. Noell is 18-years-old and got his start in Scouting as a founding member of Cub Scout Pack 429 in 2010, chartered at that time by Mulder Church in Wetumpka. While at Pack 429, he earned the Arrow of Light, the highest level of achievement in Cub Scouts.
In 2015, Noell joined Troop 13, where he held a variety of leadership positions through the years, including senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, patrol leader and assistant patrol leader. He also completed National Youth Leadership Training and has served as a NYLT staff member for three years, as well as volunteering with Webelos Camp at Tukabatchee three years. In 2017, he was initiated into Order of the Arrow (National Scouting Honor Society), Alibamu Lodge 179.
Noell’s favorite Scout experience was camping in Helen, Georgia, with Troop 13 in fall 2019. The Scouts went tubing on the Chattahoochee River, enjoyed German food and stayed in the “Squirrel’s Nest” covered primitive camping platforms at Unicoi State Park.
For his Eagle project, Noell constructed and installed information kiosks on the Swayback Bridge Trail in Wetumpka. These kiosks benefit the River Region Mountain Bike Alliance, the organization that runs the trail, by allowing them to spread information and updates on the trail as well as those that use the trail by providing a place to rest in shade along the trail.
Other activities in which Noell participates or has participated since high school include soccer, football, hiking club, his church youth group, Youth Judicial, YMCA lifeguard, National Honor Society treasurer and Mu Alpha Theta member. He is an AP Scholar and a Bryant Jordan 3A Region 3 Athlete Scholar Winner.
He also attended Summer Science Institute at Auburn University and the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Conference. After graduation, Noell is undecided on a college but plans to major in mechanical engineering.
