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Venturing Awards
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History
  • Sea Scout Quartermaster 1924-Now
  • Senior Titles 1935-46
  • Air Scout/Explorer Ace 1942-54
  • Explorer Ranger 1946-50
  • Explorer Silver Award 1950-66
  • Explorer Achievement Award 1983-95
  • Explorer G.O.L.D. Award 1995-98

4
Venturing Recognitions
  • Bronze
  • Gold
  • Silver

Ranger outdoor skills Quest sports
skills Sea Scout
Quartermaster Trust Religious and Community
Life
5
Recognition Map
Silver
Quarter- Award
master
Award
Quest Award
Trust Award
Ranger Award
Gold Award
Outdoor Religious Arts and Sports
Sea Bronze C Life Hobbies
Bronze Scout
Bronze Bronze Bronze
Previous Boy Scout or Varsity Scout
JOIN Venturing
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Eagle Scout
  • Eligibility remains the same
  • First Class Scout
  • Earned as a Boy Scout or Varsity Scout
  • Requirements remain the same
  • Leadership position in the crew

7
Boards of Review
  • Scout rank must have board of review
  • May be troop, team, or crew / ship
  • 3-6 committee members
  • No advisors, assistants, relatives
  • Purposes
  • Work has been learned and completed
  • What kind of experience youth having?
  • Encourage advancement to next rank
  • Not an examination, 15 minutes max
  • Eagle board follows council procedures

8
Bronze Awards
All Venturers can earn any or all of these awards
  • Sports
  • Religious and Community Life
  • Arts and Hobbies
  • Outdoor
  • Sea Scout

9
Religious Life Requirements
  • Do nine of the eleven projects
  • Earn religious award
  • Learn about cultural diversity
  • Plan and lead a service project
  • Volunteer in church for three months
  • Go on a religious retreat
  • Be in a religious play
  • Serve as an officer of your Sunday School
  • Complete a Standard First Aid class
  • Do five Ethical Controversies activities
  • Sunday School teacher
  • Meet with church leader

10
Gold Award
  • Any one Bronze Award
  • 12 months tenure
  • Leadership role
  • Participate in a district (or higher) event
  • Personal growth in six experience areas
  • Lead two crew activity projects
  • Recite Venturing Oath
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Crew review

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Crew Review
  • Required for Gold and Silver Awards
  • Not for Bronze or Ranger or Quest or Trust
  • Required for all Sea Scout ranks
  • Completion paperwork to Advisor / Skipper
  • Crew president (with Advisor) appoints review
    committee of 4-6 Venturers and adults
  • Review determines if person grew as a result of
    the experience
  • Advancement report to council office

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Silver Award
  • One Bronze Award
  • Gold Award
  • Emergency Preparedness (First Aid,
  • CPR, Safe Swim Defense)
  • Demonstrate leadership
  • Including Venturing Leadership Skills Course
  • Participate in Ethics in Action
  • Crew review

13
Quartermaster Award
  • For Sea Scouts
  • See the Sea Scout Manual, Ch. 3

14
Ranger Award
  • Eight core requirements
  • Four of 18 elective requirements
  • Demonstrate high degree of
  • outdoor proficiency
  • Resource for Venturers and Scouts
  • Venturers can work up to the
  • requirements

15
Ranger Award
  • Eight core requirements
  • First Aid
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Leave No Trace
  • Navigation
  • Wilderness Survival
  • Communications
  • Cooking
  • Conservation

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Ranger Award
  • Mountaineering Outdoor Living History
  • Physical Fitness Plants and Wildlife
  • Scuba Shooting Sports
  • Watercraft Winter Sports
  • plus four of eighteen electives
  • Backpacking Cave Exploring
  • COPE Cycling/Mountain Biking
  • Ecology First Aid
  • Fishing Equestrian
  • Hunting Lifesaver

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Quest Award
  • Core requirements
  • 1. Sports Bronze Award
  • 2. Sport Safety Training
  • 3. Fitness for Life
  • 4. Fitness assessment
  • 5. Sport disciplines
  • One elective
  • 1. History / heritage sports
  • 2. Sports nutrition
  • 3. Drug-free sport
  • 4. Communications
  • 5. History / heritage of disabled sports movement

18
TRUST Award
  • Tending Your Beliefs (first requirement)
  • Religious Bronze
  • Religious Emblem
  • Respecting Beliefs of Others
  • Understanding Other Cultures
  • Serving Your Community
  • Significant service project
  • Transforming Our Society

19
Religious Life ProgramJan Religious Award
Study (1) Ethics in Action(9)Feb Cooking
RendezvousMar Cultural Diversity (2)
Ethics in ActionApr First Aid
(8) May Service Project (3) Ethics in
ActionJun Religious Play (6) Leadership
Skills Jul Backpacking Swimming
SSDAug Wilderness Survival Ethics in
ActionSep Religious Retreat (5) Oct Religious
Leader Meeting (11) Ethics in Action RELIGIOUS
LIFE BRONZENov Emergency Preparedness
Leadership Skills Dec Winter Sports
Ethics in Action OUTDOOR BRONZE GOLD AWARD
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Outdoor/Ranger ProgramJan First Aid Ethics in
ActionFeb Cooking RendezvousMar Land
Navigation Apr Backpacking Ethics in
ActionMay Leave No Trace Leaderships
SkillsJun Wilderness Survival Jul Mountaineerin
g Swimming SSD OUTDOOR BRONZEAug Emergency
Preparedness Sep Communications Ethics in
ActionOct Project COPE Nov Conservation Leade
rship SkillsDec Winter Sports Ethics in
Action RANGER AWARD GOLD AWARD
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Recognition Map
Silver
Quarter- Award
master
Award
Quest Award
Trust Award
Ranger Award
Gold Award
Outdoor Religious Arts and Sports
Sea Bronze C Life Hobbies
Bronze Scout
Bronze Bronze Bronze
Previous Boy Scout or Varsity Scout
JOIN Venturing
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Venturing Awards
  • Historically based - 95 years
  • experience
  • Relevant today
  • Program supplement
  • Flexible

23
Venturing Awards
VENTURING LEADERSHIP AWARD Presented by
Councils, Regions andNational Council to
Venturers and adults who have made exceptional
contributions to Venturing ADVISOR AWARD of
MERIT Recognizes Advisor / Skipper for
outstanding ability to work with youth.
Nominated by crew president and committee
chairman
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Adult Training Awards
  • Scouters Key (Advisor)
  • Fast Start and Basic training
  • Three years tenure, seminars, VLSC
  • Quality Unit, parents night
  • Roundtable attendance
  • Training Award (Venturing)
  • Basic training
  • Two years tenure
  • Seven of 11 projects
  • Sea Scout leaders meet Skippers needs

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Young American Award
  • See the National Venturing site for requirements.
    Nomination award.
  • Administered in SHAC by the Exploring Division.

26
Other Awards
  • Honor Medal
  • Heroism Medal
  • Medal of Merit
  • Hornaday Award
  • Conservation Good Turn
  • 50-Miler

27
High Adventure Bases
  • Philmont
  • Sea Base
  • Northern Tier

28
Water Sports Badges
  • Boardsailing
  • BSA Lifeguard
  • Kayaking
  • Mile Swim
  • Scuba
  • Snorkeling
  • Long Cruise

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Other
  • Quality Unit
  • Historic Trails
  • Paul Bunyan
  • Interpreter Strip
  • Jamboree
  • Venturing Shooting Sports

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