Community Hero: Steven Worrell

WFMY News 2's Tracey McCain introduces us to a Greensboro boy scout who hammered and drilled for months to help his disabled school mates.

Every student in the special education class at Grimsley High School has a new lap-board to work from. That's thanks to one of their school mates.

"You can fold it up like this so you can carry it around, it's very mobile," described Steven Worrell, Jr. about his creation. "You can fold it up to use it for an incline surface, you can use it to write and you can also fold it up to a more steeper area so you can also use it to read on," he said.

Worrell, a senior at Grimsley built twelve lap-boards, an easel and two wheelchair accessible tables as part of his Eagle Scout project.

"We were looking around and he said, 'What can you use?' and we just looked at some of our equipment and I said it would be nice to have an extra one of those and that and another easel," said teacher Jane Miller. "And then he said, 'That's not enough for an Eagle Scout and I said are you sure?,'" she said.

Now students don't have to use the only lap-board they shared before.

Miller sees the difference the boards make in her student's writing.

"Everyone wants to have their student come to school and succeed and its all about resources materials so to know that someone else is helping us reach the potential of our students is fabulous," Miller said.

Worrell raised more than $400 and invested 131 hours to do this, but by the end of the community service project it became more than just a requirement for a badge but a statement from the heart.

"It makes me feel good; knowing that I made a difference in this classroom and I helped each of these students have an easier time working here," said Worrell.

The lap-board project and years of community service in the boy scouts earned Worrell his Eagle Scout status.