Zac Damico’s Eagle Project Helps Complete Band Room Upgrades
New Shelving in Band Room Mirrors Work Done by Former Student
Zac Damico ‘28 spent his spring and summer planning and leading out his Eagle Scout Project. His project was adding new shelving units to the band room percussion closet and percussion area. His project mirrors work done by recently graduated Eagle Scout, Austin Kortisses ‘26, whose project took place this last school year. Kortisses’ project was redoing the closet opposite which houses sousaphones and tubas. Now both closets are complete with Damico’s contribution.
New Band Room Storage
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Project Scope Zac Damico ‘28 completed his Eagle Scout project by installing new shelving in the percussion closet.
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Improved Efficiency The new custom shelving units nearly double the storage capacity of the percussion area.
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Labor and Time The project required over 290 hours of work from Damico and various volunteers.
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Volunteer Support Helpers included members of the band, drumline, and the Buffalo Scout Troop.
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Sustainable Methods Damico reused existing materials and reconfigured old shelves to reduce costs.
Before deciding on this project Damico had gone to both his pastor and his band director for ideas.
“What I was given at my church would be unfeasible for what they wanted done,” Damico said. “And Curtis told me to fix what I’d been complaining about since the first day of school, so that’s why I decided on it.”
One of Damico’s main goals with his project was to make the closet space more usable.
“My goals were mainly to focus on the drum closet,” Damico said. “There was just a lot of wasted space with the storage we had, and now we can fit almost twice as much in there.”
Eagle Scout Projects are usually recommended to be a total of at least 100 combined hours of all workers. Damico’s project took over 290 hours. These hours were both from himself planning and leading as well as countless volunteers.
“A large majority of the people that helped were from band, drumline, or marching band,” Damico said. “So people that are directly affected by it. But then I also had a large amount of helpers from the Buffalo [Scout] Troop. So there were definitely enough hands to go around.”
All these workers helped pull out existing shelving from the closet, disassemble them, clean them, paint them, and reassemble them, and then also build new custom shelving units for the closet.
“We brought [the shelves] back on site to reassemble them,” Damico said. “and allow them to be used in a different orientation to serve the band room instead of the closet. Then we custom fabricated a shelving solution for the closet, trying to reutilize as much present material as we could to cut down on cost, but ultimately creating a custom shelf in the closet.”
Damico’s project has continued to improve old band room shelving and upgrade the storage spaces to be better utilized.
“It was bad before,” Damico said. “I was trying to make the impact of just allowing people not to hate their lives trying to put stuff away.”
