ARLINGTON — As part of an Eagle Scout project in Arlington, high school sophomore Michael Powers built a way for grieving members of the community to speak to loved ones who have passed.

Powers, 15, has been a Boy Scout for three years, he said in an interview.

“Only around 5% of scouts make it in the average time,” he said. “It takes three years.”

To become an Eagle Scout, scouts must complete a significant community service project, among other requirements . For his project, Powers constructed a wind phone — a disconnected phone people use to talk to deceased loved ones — in Arlington’s Country Charm Park.

Powers decided on the idea because “it just really stuck out to me,” he said in an interview before the ceremony. “It just seemed like something that really was needed here.

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