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newlenoxpatriot.com news the New Lenox Patriot | September 14, 2017 | 7 Troop 49 Scout turns love of meteorology into weather station for project Visitors now can check forecast at Joliet’s Pilcher Park Claudia Harmata Editorial Intern Achieving the rank of an Eagle Scout — the highest rank in Boy Scouts — is no walk in the park. However, Jacob Janssen is determined to achieve it and was inspired to help Pilcher Park Nature Center in Joliet for his Eagle Scout project. “It’s a special place for me because my grandfather took us there as kids a lot,” said Janssen, a Homer Glen resident and member of New Lenox Boy Scout Troop 49. “We’d get hot dogs and go run around.” In order to become an Eagle Scout, on of the requirements of a Life Scout is to plan, develop and give leadership to others in a service project that benefits an organization in the community. “He came to me looking for an Eagle Scout project,” said Katie Zaban, the Nature Center superintendent at Pilcher Park. “We talked about the typical projects — like building a bridge, benches, signs — he was kind of interested in those, but then he said, ‘Well, I want to be a meteorologist. Would you be interested in a weather station?’” Janssen grew up interested in meteorology, reminiscing on the times he spent watching storms from his garage. “I’ve always enjoyed it because when I was little — we have a garage that opens and it looks over a field — we would watch the storms roll in there,” he said. “I enjoy it because it’s something different every day.” He wanted to share this passion with the community, so he decided to build a weather station at Pilcher Park — one that visitors and the park could use. “I started back in April or May,” Janssen said. “I did the paperwork and had to send that in, and then from there, it was just a matter of getting some of the materials fundraised and doing the actual project.” Ace Hardware in New Lenox donated a lot of the materials needed for the project, according to Janssen. Marina Cartage, Inc. donated the wooden post Janssen used to hold the weather instruments. “We had to use a post hole digger and dig a hole just below the frost line,” Janssen said. “Then we had to put cement there and stick a wooden post into the cement. Then we had to screw the instrument panels on.” The outside work of the project took a day to complete. Janssen later returned to install indoor panels that display the information the weather instruments collect. “It communicates with the instruments that are outside, and they give all the information to the panel inside,” he said. “It gives the temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speeds, what way the wind is coming from and that kind of thing.” According to Zaban, the weather station is being utilized by the summer camp program at the park and will also help the Little Sprouts Early Learning Center during the school year. “We have [the panels] at the front desk currently … we have it on the heat index setting, so if there was a really hot heat index and it was unsafe for our campers to go outside for an extended period of time we would use it for that,” she said. “Once we get into winter and windchill is a factor, we will see that as well and use it as a determining factor if the [Little Sprouts] can go outside for an extended time.” Zaban had only good things to say about her experience working with Janssen on his Eagle Scout project. “He was very friendly, very easy to work with,” she said. “He was basically a self-starter, got what he needed and he did it. He showed me how to use the weather station, and he is a great kid all around.” Janssen’s love for meteorology is something that he plans to pursue in college — his top choices being the University of Oklahoma and Valparaiso University for their meteorology programs. can mean A Smaller House Bigger Vacations! When You Are Ready For Your Next Adventure – Let Us Get You Moving! New Lenox Troop 49 Boy Scout Jacob Janssen built a weather station for his Eagle project at Pilcher Park Nature Center in Joliet. Photo submitted Stacie McGlone Managing Broker/Owner 773.213.1150 Brendan McGlone 773.213.5181 Kevin Maney 708.525.6778 Carrie Maney 815.592.4652 Julia Labuda 773.732.5629 Kevin McWilliams 815.351.3440 Melissa Kingsbury 312.480.1350 301 N. White St., Suite A • Frankfort, IL 60423 815-534-5321 • ALWAYSHOME247.COM
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