Submitted Photo Jaxon Thompson

The Scouting America Boy Troop 425 will celebrate its 110th Eagle Scout, Jaxon Thompson, during an Eagle Court of Honor ceremony at noon on Saturday, May 16, at the Big 4 Scout Camp, 900 54th St. NW, four miles west of Minot.

Thompson is a senior at Minot High School and intends to pursue a degree in cyber security and information technology at Bismarck State College upon graduation. His extracurricular activities include six years of trap shooting and four years in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. He has also volunteered throughout the Minot community, including at Magi United, and with Minot North HOSA, Future Health Professionals. He also assists with Bethany Lutheran Church’s three and four year old Sunday school class.

He is the third son of Christine Thompson to become an Eagle Scout, preceded by the troop’s 83rd Eagle Scout, Michael Girard in 2016, and the 101st Eagle Scout, Chance Thompson in 2022.

He started scouting with Cub Scouts’s Pack 428 at Bell Elementary. When that pack dissolved, he transferred to Pack 403 at Nedrose Elementary. There he earned the highest award in Cub Scouting, the Arrow of Light.

Thompson joined Scouts BSA Troop 425 in March 2019 and over the years held the librarian, quartermaster, bugler, assistant patrol leader, scribe, OA representative, patrol leader, junior assistant scoutmaster and assistant senior patrol leader positions.

Thompson has earned a total of 39 Merit Badges, 18 more than the required 21 badges, for which he will also receive the Silver Palm award.

He is a highly decorated scout, having earned many awards in the past, including ATV, Recruiter, the Troop Meeting Perfect Attendance Award in years 2019-2023 and the Troop Camping Perfect Attendance Award from years 2019-2022 and 2024.

Thompson has 102 days and nights of camping as a scout under his belt, which includes seven summer camps at the Northern Lights Council Camp Wilderness in Park Rapids, Minnesota, three Tomahawk District Camporees and five District Klondike Derbies. He also attended the National Youth Leadership Training at Camp Wilderness, Butler Outpost and is a member of the Order of the Arrow.

He completed his Eagle Scout project in February 2025 after he remodeled a room at the Minot Congregational United Church of Christ into a usable storage area. The project required removing three shower stalls and repainting the walls, ceiling and floor. Between planning, organizing and coordinating both materials and the 23 volunteers, Thompson dedicated 96 hours to the project.