AS I was looking for an Eagle Scout Project idea, I stumbled upon a website that had a sock drive as an idea. I further discussed this with my mother, who volunteers at a church that helps the homeless in the community often, the beneficiary of my project. She said that they have a clothing drive every year for the homeless, and the church runs out of socks almost every year. So, I decided that I was going to do the sock drive.  I decided to coordinate with my church, my mom's church, and my high school that I am attending. I talked with the pastors, priest, principle, and student council to organize and get approval of the sock drive. I used recycling bins that were donated by the local recycling center for the sock collection bins. I returned the bins when the project was over. I asked my fellow Boy Scouts and youth group to help me make signs for each of the bins to cover up the recycling signs and to promote the sock drive. Each bin followed the color scheme for the church or school. Once the artwork for the sock collection bins were done I placed each bin at its respective location. Announcements at my school and the churches were made to spread awareness of the sock drive for the first few weeks of the project to get it going. It was a slow start, but after about a month the bins started to fill up with socks. Once the bins were full, they were replaced and I stored the extra socks in my house.  Once the sock drive was over, I collected all of the socks and bins at my house. At the following Boy Scout meeting, I brought all of the socks to be counted and sorted into men's, women's, and children's socks. the initial count was 1,107 pairs socks. I collected all of the small bags of socks that were donated by various people who had personally given me socks to be counted. The count for the small bags of socks that were donated to me was 396 pairs of socks. That made the total sock count to be 1,503 pairs of socks.  I gathered all the pairs of socks and brought them to my beneficiary soon after the sock count. Hopefully the socks will last many years and will keep many homeless people warm and protected from the harsh midwestern weather.