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Venturing in the
Piedmont District
Cooper Wright
BSA Mission
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to
prepare young people to make ethical and
moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling
in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
BSA Programs
BSA accomplishes its mission by offering three
age-appropriate programs:
•Cub Scouting
•Boy Scouting
•Venturing
BSA’s goal is to keep every youth in
Scouting as long as possible
Age of Venturers - 2006
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45% of Venturers are 18 years old or older
Venturing by Gender – 2006
(excluding LDS)
Male
Female
58%
42%
Total Venturing Population = 244,266
Venturing Eagles - 2006
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13.3% completed their Eagle as Venturers
Piedmont District Venturing Chair
• Forms a committee of dedicated Venturing
adults that offers a full service capability for
Piedmont District crews
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Advancement/Recognition
Membership
Training
Activities
Marketing
Finance
• Matches functions being performed by NCAC
Venturing Committee
• Represents the District at NCAC Venturing
meetings
Advancement/Recognitions
• Helps crews get started on Venturing
advancement by sharing consultant resources
• Assists crews in conducting Silver Award
Boards of Review if requested
• Shares with District Vice Chair/Council
Venturing Marketing Committee high level
achievements such as Silver, Ranger, Quest,
Trust, and Quartermaster awards
• Promotes other recognitions such as the
Venturing Leadership Award and Venturing
Advisor Award of Merit
Membership
• Assists crews during the annual rechartering process
• Promotes the crew “Open House” program
• Maintains awareness of crew membership
track records to identify crews that might
need help
• Helps identify organizations that are
candidates to organize new crews
• Coordinates with the District Vice
Chair/Council Venturing Membership
Committee on membership activities
Training
• Ensures new advisors and crew committees take
Venturing Fast Start and Venturing Youth
Protection training (web based)
• Offers regular Venturing Leader Specific
Training courses
• Supports crews as they present Venturing
Leadership Skills Course, New Officers’
Orientation, Youth Protection and Annual Program
Planning Seminars
• Coordinates with the District Training chair to
determine which adults need Venturing training
• Supports Council Powder Horn and Kodiak training
courses and National Venturing training courses
Activities
• Helps crews plan and carry out exciting, safe,
and challenging program activities
• Works with the District High Adventure
Chair to provide ideas for crew “ultimate
adventures”
• Maintains a resource list of outdoor
consultants and places to go
• Encourages participation in Council-planned
Venturing events including the V3 Hike-o-ree,
Eco Challenge, Venturing After Dark, and
Rendezvous
• Supports the Council “Road to Ranger”
program at Camp Goshen
Venturing Crew Activities
Upcoming Venturing Activities
2008
• Monthly Northern Virginia Venturing Roundtable
(NVVR) meetings (1st Wednesday of each month)
• Feb 23 – University of Scouting
– Venturing Leader Specific Training
– Venturing Leadership Skills Course
• Mar 7-9 – COPE Training, Camp Snyder
• Mar 8 – Venturing Leader Specific Training
(Powhattan District)
• April 11-13 – Northeast Region Area 4 Venturing
Quest, Camp Bucco, PA
Upcoming Venturing Activities
2008
• April 18-20 – COPE Instruction, District
Camporee, Verdun
• May 10 – NCAC Venturing Rendezvous
• May 16-17 – Venturing Leadership Skills
Course (Powhattan District)
• Jun 7 – Venturing Eco Challenge
• Jul 26 – Aug 9 – Road to Ranger, Camp
Goshen (two weeks)
• Nov 7-9 – V3 Hike-o-ree (Venturing, Varsity &
Venture)
Venturing Rendezvous
Marketing
• Encourages crews to put articles about their
past program events in their chartered
organizations’ newsletters and local newspapers
• Helps crews develop their own marketing
materials for Open Houses and other events
• Ensures that crew and District Venturing
events are shared with the Council Marketing
Committee
• Works with the District Vice Chair for
Marketing to identify marketing opportunities
in the local area
Finance
• Educates and motivates crews to support
the District’s and Council’s annual “Friends
of Scouting” campaign
• Assists crews in planning money earning
projects and project requests
How Can the Piedmont District
Committee Support Venturing??
•Encourage key district committee members to
complete Venturing Advisor Fast Start (web
based) and Venturing Leader Specific Training
and attend Powder Horn
•Elevate the Venturing Chair to a Vice Chair
for Venturing or ADC-Venturing position
•Use crews to teach skills at District
camporees or adult leader training sessions
(teaching is requirement for Venturing advancement)
How Can the Piedmont District
Committee Support Venturing??
• Help identify organizations that are
candidates to sponsor new crews
• Have Venturers give a “What Venturing
Means to Me” talk at District dinners or
marketing events
• Participate in Venturing Courts of Honor
recognizing advancement
Visionary Leadership
A crucial factor in building and leading teams is
creating a vision, a clear, concrete picture of
intended results that is shared by the entire
team. If it’s powerful enough, a vision can chart
a course, inspire the commitment, and create the
momentum needed to make that picture a reality.
- John Graham from “Outdoor Leadership, Technique,
Common Sense & Self Confidence”
What is your vision for Venturing
in the Piedmont District?
Back-up Slides
BSA’s Older Youth Program History
• 1910 - Boy Scouting
• 1912 - Sea Scouting
• 1933 – Explorer Scouts – first Ranger
award
• 1950 - Exploring for young men 14-20 who
wanted senior Scouting – first Silver award
• 1971 - Coed Exploring – for young men and
women ages 14-20, career oriented
• 1991 - Learning For Life - BSA Subsidiary
• 1998 - Venturing - Coed ages 14-20
New Officers’ Orientation
This training offers a much-needed support
to Venturing crews with their officers. The
sections that it covers are:
•Crew Officers Roles and Responsibilities
•Resources Crew Officers Needs and Use
•Working With Advisors and Older Adults
•How to Plan Your Crew's Annual Program
•Planning Resources
Venturing Leadership Skills Course
This weekend long course is designed to be
used by Advisors to teach leadership skills
to all Venturers in the crew. Nine
leadership modules each begin with an
activity and follow with a reflection.
Completion of this course is a requirement
for the Venturing Silver Award, and
conducting the course is a requirement for
the Venturing Advisor Award of Merit.
Powder Horn
A high-adventure resource training course
designed to introduce and expose Venturing
and Boy Scout adult unit leaders to the
activities and resources necessary to
operate a successful outdoor/high-adventure
unit-level program.
Kodiak
The Kodiak course combines the elements of
leadership and service to others as the two key
tenants of Venturing. Servant leadership is a
philosophy that teaches the leader to work with
and through a team to accomplish the mission.
Kodiak's methods are the following: Challenging
outdoor treks to use nature as a classroom (no
indoor sessions). Five leadership skills, called
"commissions," are taught. They can be offered
over a week, or over two weekends. It uses a
hands-on teaching approach with very short
presentations.
Ranger Core and Elective
Requirements
Backpacking
Cave Exploring
Communications*
Conservation*
Cooking*
Cycling/Mountain Biking
Ecology
Emergency Preparedness*
Equestrian
First Aid*
Fishing
Hunting
Land Navigation*
Leave No Trace*
Lifesaver
Mountaineering
Outdoor Living History
Physical Fitness
Plants and Wildlife
Project COPE
Scuba
Shooting Sports
Watercraft
Wilderness Survival*
Winter Sports