Congrats.

I got mine in 89, just before my 18th birthday (a blacksmith/welder slowed me down).

I got some scholarships for college because of my eagle.
Got some job interviews because of it (lots of applications, but because of the eagle, he put me on the top of the pile)
It got me some extra points on a speech in college once. When I added I was an eagle scout, the professor said "you just earned five points." (He was big into scouting still at age 60+

Ironically, all my boyscouts leadership didn't help me get into National Honor Society because (and i quote from a teacher who was the sponsor until this happened, then she quite) "they aren't popular enough" (refering to myself and a friend in scouts as well). I didn't get in until my senior year. Then when they asked me to help in different things I told them to bugger off because I wasn't popular enough to help. I wasn't bitter. Much.

I am a bit upset though. I've been seeing a lot of eagle projects that are pathetic. Mine took me four months of serious labor. Drilling through concrete, etc...

One guy made some signs on the distance to the fence on 5 baseball fields. That was it. Pathetic. Measure 15 distances. Make some big signs (just paint on playwood). Hang on fence. That's like... one day? That dilutes the value of the award.

I had another friend who got the eagle and like 4 palms. Didn't like him much. LOL

Another friend was stripping the paint off the wooden add-on porch room of a museumy coach house and repainting. Course, it was about 5 layers of paint. The oldest was like 100 years old. It took him 2 years to get it all off.