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Venturing
Scouting’s
Next Step
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BSA has steadily expanded the reach
of its value-based programs
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1910 Boy Scouting
1912 Sea Scouting
1935 Cub Scouting
1950 Exploring for young men 14-20 who wanted
senior Scouting
• 1971 Coed Exploring- Young women ages 14-20
joined now more career oriented posts
• 1991 Learning For Life - BSA Subsidiary
• 1998 Venturing - Coed ages 14-20 - Outdoor
oriented senior scouting
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National Venturing Growth
December 2001 vs 2000
Northeast Region
Southern Region
Central Region
Western Region
Units
23.1%
24.4%
19.7%
10.9%
Youth
12.2%
12.3%
9.4%
6.2%
• National
• National since 1998
18.2%
86.0%
9.1%
52.7%
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What is Venturing?
• “It’s not a box or a package we
present.”
• “It is focused resources designed to
help a community organization
provide wholesome, flexible, wellrounded, challenging activities,
tailor-made for teenage youth.”
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Venturing is…
Thinking outside the box
• Joe Q. Public’s
view
• Uniforms
• Boys only
• Compass and
campfires
• Old Fashioned
• Paradigm shift
• No Required uniform
• Coed (fastest growing program)
• Global Positioning
System and Leave No
Trace
• Cutting Edge in Youth
Protection
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Why is Venturing Growing?
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Aggressive promotion Nation-wide
Lots of unplowed ground (potential)
Targeted Resources for New Unit Growth
Tailor-made for teenagers
• Coed program
• No required uniform
• Extreme sports and outdoor activities
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Here’s Venturing
• The young adult program of the BSA
for men and women 14 (who have
completed the 8th grade) through 20
years of age.
• Youth member is a “Venturer”
• Venturing units are “Crews”
• Venturing adults are “advisors”
• Youth leader is the “president”
• $7 membership fee - same chartering
process
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Character, Citizenship, Fitness
The aims of the BSA’s 3 Programs
Boy Scout Methods
Patrol Method
Adult Association
Leadership
Scouting Ideals
Outdoors
Advancement
Personal Growth
Uniform
Venturing Methods
Group Activities
Adult Association
Leadership
Scouting Ideals
High Adventure
Recognition
Teaching Others
Uniform optional
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Venturing/Exploring
Venturing
Application
Members
Leadership Standards
determined by BSA
Oath and Code
Advancement
Hobby, religious, sports
Outdoor based
Exploring
Rosters
Participants
Leadership Standards
determined by
Participating
Organization
N one
Awards and
Recognition
Career
Education
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Venturing/Venture
What’s the Difference?
Venture Patrol
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Optional patrol of a troop
Male only
Ages 13-17
Boy Scout advancement
only
• Venture Patrol Leader,
Assistant Patrol Leader
• Good transition to
Venturing
Venturing Crew
• Stand Alone Unit
• Coed, all male, or all
female
• Ages 14-20
• 5 Bronze Awards, Gold,
Silver, Ranger,
Quartermaster & Boy
Scout advancement
above 1st class for male
Venturers
• President, two VP
positions,Secretary,
Treasurer, Activity chairs
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Does Venturing Have a
Required Uniform?
• The recommended uniform is
the spruce green Venturing
shirt with green epaulette tabs
and gray backpacking-style
shorts or gray casual pants.
• However, the uniform, if any, is
the choice of the crew.
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Venturing Oath
As a Venturer, I promise to do
my duty to God and help
strengthen America, to help
others, and to seek truth,
fairness, and adventure in our
world.
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Venturing Support Items
(no cost)
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New Crew Sales Kit
Recruitment Posters
Sales Brochures
Fast Start (available on BSA website)
Venturing Highlights
Awards and Recognition brochure
Religious Resource Kit
Marketing Guide
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The following new literature is
available at your Scout Shop
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Venturing Leader Manual
Ranger Guidebook
Venturer Handbook
Venturing Leadership Skills Course
Venturing Roundtable Guide
Here’s Venturing - Operations Guide
Recognition Certificates and Awards
Venturing Advancement Chart
Venturing Leader Specific Training
Sea Scout Manual
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Venturing Videos
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Selling Venturing to the Head of an
Organization
Briefing the Organizing Committee
New Crew Fast Start
Venturing For Scoutmasters
Venturing Professional Orientation
Venturing For Religious Youth Groups
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Sea Scouts: Chart a Course for Life
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Youth Protection Videos
• Youth Protection - Personal
Safety Awareness (for Youth)
• Youth Protection Training for
Adult Venturing Leaders
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Venturing Training
• Faststart
• New Leader Essentials
• Venturing Adult Leader Basic
Training
• Powder Horn (High adventure
resourse management training
now in councils.)
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Venturing Recognition
• National Venturing
Leadership Award for youth
and adults- 3 levels
• Venturing Advisor Award of
Merit
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Venturing Advancement
Silver
Award
Quartermaster
Eagle
Life
Ranger
Award
Star
Outdoor
Bronze
lst
Class
Gold
Award
Youth
Ministries
Bronze
Sports
Bronze
Previous
Boy Scout or
Varsity Scout
Arts and
Hobbies
Bronze
Sea
Scout
Bronze
JOIN
Venturing
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The Ranger Program
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Rangers are elite outdoorsmen
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Ranger are required to teach what
they’ve learned to others-KEY!!!!
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Rangers work with their advisor and
consultants
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Ranger Core Requirements
1. Standard First Aid plus When Help
is Delayed
2. Communications
3. Cooking
4. Emergency Preparedness
5. Land Navigation
6. Leave No Trace
7. Wilderness Survival
8. Conservation
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Ranger Electives
(Must earn 4 of 18)
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Backpacking
Cave Exploring
Project COPE
Mountain Biking
First Aid
Fishing
Ecology
Equestrian
Hunting
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Lifesaver
Mountaineering
Outdoor Living History
Physical Fitness
Plants & Wildlife
Scuba
Shooting Sports
Watercraft
Winter Sports
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Do Venturers Use the
Ranger Guidebook
“ I just returned from Philmont with a co-ed Venturing crew. Before
leaving, I presented each member of the crew with a Ranger
Guidebook. We reviewed the requirements briefly. Quite frankly, I
expected to see them stuff the book in their carry-on bags, never
to be seen again. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
All the way across the country (Chicago to Raton by train) there
was a constant barrage of questions being fired at me. Once we
reached Philmont it intensified. I had the same reaction from the
Philmont Ranger Staff. The Ranger Guidebooks are worn and dog
eared.
In my 40 years of Scouting, I can’t remember ever seeing Scouts
pick up and devour a program the way they seem to go after the
Ranger award.”
Richard Hewitt, Crew Advisor, Portage, Michigan
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Venturing’s Growth
Where Is It Coming From?
• Church youth groups that adopt the structure
of Venturing to help strengthen their youth
program.
• Successful troops that adopt Venturing to meet
the wants and needs of older boys-longer
retention.
• High School and college outdoor clubs that
adopt Venturing to complement their program.
• Independent groups that are organized from
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high school hobby interest surveys
Chickasaw Council
Memphis, Tennessee
• June 30 - 306% growth in youth, 127% growth in units
• Council sent two volunteers to Venturing Philmont
courses to come back and sell Scoutmasters
• Sales call to ROTC commander in Memphis
• Organized 60 Venturing Crews with High School ROTC
groups
– They needed places to do Land Navigation, climbing
and ropework
– Council provided camping properties
– Council created a ROTC Super Weekend at the nearby
Naval Base
Contact: Jeff Isaac 901-327-4193
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Baltimore Area Council
Baltimore, Maryland
• June 30 – 83% growth in youth, 69% growth in
units
• 1999 -Staff Retreat Focused on Venturing
Appointed Council Staff Advisor
• 2000- Successful Impact Event with
Scoutmasters and Troop Committee Chairs
• 2001- Successful Impact Event with Catholic
Diocese
Contact: Marc Richardson
410-338-1700
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Winnebago Council
Waterloo, Iowa
• June 30 – 572% growth in youth, 79% growth
in units
• Scout Executive appointed a 3-member Staff
Venturing task force
• Task force and volunteers attended Area
Venturing conference
• Council made a commitment to Venturing
– Approached Churches and Hobby groups
– Organized 12 events to help sell units
– Promoted COPE course at camp
Contact: Todd McGregor 319-234-2867
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Perceived Barriers to forming
Venturing Crews
• Survey results from 335 professionals
(top four responses)
– 70% Low Awareness
– 56.6% Lack of Training/Knowledge
– 54.5% Lack of Adult Leadership
– 49.1% Potential Chartering
organizations lack of understanding of
the program
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VENTURING!!
A Resource to Religious
Organizations serving
High School age Youth
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The BSA
Smorgasbord
to better serve high school-age youth
• Use of retreat facilities for team building and
program
• Literature to help with program planning
• Awards and recognitions for youth and adults
• Professional assistance with program planning,
volunteer recruitment and finding resources
• Five-hour extensive training for all adult leaders
• Two-day Leadership Skills Course for all youth
• Award-winning Youth Protection Video for youth
• Youth Protection training for adults
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• Low-cost liability and accident insurance
Venturing Crew Growth in
Religious Organizations
1998
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Community Churches
Methodist Episcopal
Evangelical Churches
Church of Christ
Nazarene Churches
Disciples of Christ
Lutheran Churches
Jewish Synagogues
Presbyterian Churches
Catholic Churches
Baptist Churches
Methodist Churches
United Church of Christ
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Venturing Crews Chartered to
Religious Organizations (non LDS)
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Venturing Provides Structure and
Substance To a Church Youth Group
• Venturing is flexible and can work with any
existing youth program structure.
• Venturing can help keep youth closer to the
religious organization’s beliefs.
• Venturing provides a package that can retain
existing youth and recruit new ones.
• The religious awards will help create an arena
in which young adults can work closely with
religious leaders.
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Collinsville, Illinois
Tim Stark- Associate Pastor
Sunlight Church
• Non-Denominational Church
• Organized Venturing crew with Master’s Commission
Program made up of 18-25 year olds
• These are college kids that participate in a one year
program that teaches character, integrity and service
• At the end of the program they spend six weeks on the road
visiting other Churches. They make a visible impact of
service.
• 2000 annual plan includes a retreat at the local Scout
facility for the COPE course and next summer to the
Northern Tier High Adventure Base
• Their goal is to organize a crew with the high school youth
group in the church
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Des Arc, Arkansas
Melvin York- Pastor
First Baptist Church
• The High School youth group was organized in 1998 as a
Venturing crew
• The group has 15 boys and 15 girls
• The youth have adopted a golf green shirt as a unform
• They meet every Sunday night
• Most of the youth have earned the Youth Ministries Bronze
Award and the God and Life Award
• Two recent Silver Award recipients
• The Pastor conducted the Venturing Leadership Skills
Course with the youth
• The crew focuses on serving the community. Recently
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Rick Newton – Crew Advisor
Tidewater, Florida
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Crew 520 was started in May 1999 when St. Simon’s on the Sound Episcopal
Church was looking for something to help them sustain a youth group.
We began with five youth. Last Tuesday we sent our re-charter package in
with 30 kids names on it, all with paid up dues and excited about Venturing.
Two more kids showed up at our last meeting with friends, liked what they
saw, and took joining paperwork home to their parents. I have youth from 5
different High Schools. We are busting at the seams.
Seven of our kids just started their high school-age Pope Pius XII Religious
Award.
These kids like showing up in “safe” places in their green polo shirts, sitting
as a crowd, and getting recognized.
Our youth group has gone windsurfing, scuba diving, mountain biking and
horseback riding
We have great youth officers, all Seniors in High School that are now training
the sophomores and juniors to take their places.
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Erik Moeller – St. Vincent de Paul Parish
Arlington, Texas
• May of 2000 created a Venturing crew at
the Parish
• It works as a subset of the existing high
school-age youth group
• We asked all the youth interested in
outdoor activities if they wanted to be a
part of an outdoor club
• Our group is 50% male/female
• Their favorite activity is the high and low
ropes challenge courses
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Cascade Pacific Council
Portland, Oregon
• June 30 - 35% growth in youth, 18%
growth in units
• Invited Pastors from inner-city community
Churches to Scout Camp for Impact Event
• 12 units organized from event
• Council created field trips and quarterly
events at council camps, they use COPE
course
• Pastors organized “Venturing for Faith”
• Contact: Ralph Voelker 503-226-3423
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Venturing in Bible-based
Churches = Great Potential
• In a recent survey, 81% of Bible-based
ministers said they have never seen a
presentation on how Scouting can be
used as a part of their youth ministry.
• Less than four percent of Bible-based
community Churches currently have
Scouting units.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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• How much ownership will my religious
organization have if we start a Venturing crew with
my high school age youth group?
• What are the advantages of combining my
religious organization’s youth group with
Venturing?
• How much does it cost to create a Venturing crew
with my religious youth group?
• Is a uniform required?
• Where will we find leadership?
• Will Venturing compete with my youth group?
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• How do we get started?
Boy Scout Troops
Venturing Crews
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Why Should a Troop Consider a
Venturing Crew?
• The Venturing program complements the Boy
Scout troop. It adds exciting new
advancement and leadership opportunities
for your older boys.
• It allows flexibility, so boys can participate in
both programs.
• Venturing can help solve many of the
Scoutmaster’s challenges.
• It meets the wants and needs of 14 to 21 year
old young men.
• It provides a scouting program for daughters
of scouting families.
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Scoutmaster Challenges
• Keeping 14 to 18 year old Boy Scouts
“engaged” in the troop.
• Challenging older Boy Scouts, while at the
same time, trying to attract and retain younger
Boy Scouts.
• Competing with older Boy Scouts’ interests;
cars, girls, high school.
• Providing leadership/role model opportunities
to all older Boy Scouts.
• Giving younger Boy Scouts something to
anticipate beyond the troop
• Consistently offering exciting program.
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National BSA Statistics
• Average Boy Scout is 14 years
and 1 month old
• Average Eagle Scout is 16 years
and 2 months old
• Average Boy Scout attendance
at summer camp is 2.8 years
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Ages of Venturers
Year 2001
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Olds
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18 yr.
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19 yr. 20 yr. other
Olds Olds
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Male Venturers May Continue
To Work Toward Eagle
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Must be at least a First Class earned as a Boy
Scout or Varsity Scout.
Requirements remain the same.
Board of review can be conducted by the troop or
crew.
If registered in both the troop and crew, can receive
multiple credit for many Bronze, Gold, Silver and
Ranger requirements.
May use crew leadership positions and
participation.
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What Does Venturing Offer Older
Boy Scouts In Your Troop?
• New advancement
opportunities for
boys interested in
progressing
beyond Eagle.
• New, exciting
awards and
recognition for
boys out of the
advancement loop.
• Activities with boys
and girls their own
age.
• New leadership skills
training for all
members.
• Venturers give
leadership to the troop
through the Ranger
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program, etc.
Venturing’s Teaching Philosophy
Four Levels of Learning
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Level I - You read it.
Level II - Someone teaches it to you.
Level III - You experience it.
Level IV - You teach it to someone else.
We retain 85% of what we learn when we teach it
to someone else.
Venturing advancement requires Level IV.
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How Does a Troop and a Crew
Work Together?
• Scouts ages 14 to 18 and adult leaders can
be members of both units; primary
registration in the troop and multiple in the
crew.
• The crew meets separately from the troop
twice each month and has occasional
activities with the troop and many on their
own.
• Venturers in the troop, (especially troop
leaders) are expected to participate in both
units.
• Venturers teach and provide program.
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Continued...
• Recruit an Assistant Scoutmaster or
committee member to serve as Crew Advisor.
• Utilize existing merit badge counselors as
consultants for the Ranger Award.
• Utilize troop advancement chair to help
conduct crew reviews for the Gold and Silver
Awards.
• Venturers can wear distinctive uniforming
and maintain the same unit #.
• Younger Boy Scouts think of the crew as
extension of the troop.
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From a Troop...
“My first discussions with young men of venture patrol-age in our
troop yielded enthusiasm from a few. We advertised in our church
and through word of mouth and got several young women
attending our first open house, and then joining the crew.
The coed dynamics and the viewpoint of young women who have
not been in Boy Scouting, makes it very clear to me that the
Venturing crew is not just Scouting for older Boy Scouts. We’re a
new crew and still having growing pains with youth leadership and
youth planning, but the crew is launched. The best is yet to come.”
Dave Trump, Advisor, Crew 893, Centreville, VA
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14 to 18 Year Old Boys Want:
• Challenging physical activities with boys
their own age.
• Recognition of their “older” status.
• Activities with girls.
• Control of their environment.
• Independence.
• To explore and experience their world.
• A sense of belonging and acceptance from
their peer group, inclusion in a “gang.”
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14 to 18 Year Old Boys Need:
• Consistent adults that “Walk their
talk.”
• Character and ethical education
outside the classroom.
• Positive adult role models, male and
female.
• Opportunities to become proficient at
something.
• Leadership opportunities.
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Kemblesville, Pennsylvania
Gary Schroeder-Scoutmaster, Troop 62
Advisor – Crew 62
• SM of troop with 75 boys
• Normally boys get Eagle and disappear
• Took 4 years to get a youth-run troop, with new Crew it
happened on the first camp-out
• Older boys wanted more challenge, they asked SM to
help them start a crew. Crew began June 2001 with 26
members, 13 girls, all Juniors in High School.
• How Crew has strengthened Troop 62:
– 1.Keeps older boys semi-active vs inactive
– 2.Boys are energized to do Eagle Projects
– 3.Boys get seal of approval from girls
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Michael Brown - Crew 1838
• “Adults need to understand what we are
here for. We are here for the boys, not the
other way around. The Troops exist FOR
the boys, not the other way around. If the
troop does not have a program that
interests the older boys, why deny them
the chance to go to a program that will
interest them? “
• “As a Scoutmaster I understood the
reasons for having both the programs and
that the troop could not do the same job for
older boys as either Venturing or Sea
Scouting.”
• e-mail received on 9-27-00
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Ankeny, Iowa
Jeff VerHelst - Advisor of Crew 869
• Crew started with five Venturers in 1998 and now
has 30.
• Most members are college students.
• Crew 869 was asked to operate and staff the
district camporee.
• They created a blue activity shirt with a small
Venturing logo in front and a large design on the
back. They wear the recommended spruce-green
shirt for formal occasions.
• They attended the Boundary Waters High
Adventure Base in summer 2000.
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Greensboro, NC
Wes Reid- Assistant Scoutmaster-Troop 214
Member of Church that Charters Crew
• We noticed that older boys were losing interest.
• Most of our campouts catered to the new scouts, ages 1112.
• Older Boy Scouts were looking for more exciting
adventure.
• In our church chartered troop, boys 14 and above who are
1st class scouts are eligible to join the crew.
• They continue to work toward Eagle and pursue high
adventure.
• We look at Scouting as part of our church ministry. Having
girls in our crew allows us to provide a total ministry
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Alexandria, Virginia
Cooper Wright- Advisor
“Our crew continues to grow. We recently awarded our fourth
Eagle this year, and have already presented two Bronze
awards and one Gold award. I expect that we will award two
more Bronzes, three more Golds, one Silver and one Ranger
in January. During November, the crew participated in
Scouting for Food and sorted 9,000 lbs. of food.
This weekend, we will hold our Venturing Leadership Skills
Course at a nearby youth hostel. We have augmented the
course material with items from ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective
Teens.’ I can’t wait to go back to Philmont with a co-ed
crew. Right now it looks like the crew leader will be a young
woman who is well on her way to earning the Venturing
Silver and Girl Scout Gold awards.”
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Lincoln, Nebraska
Marge Klein, Associate Advisor, Crew 316
“Crew 316 started in October 1998. We have 15 boys and 6
girls.
We have a list of 13 year old boys and girls wanting to join our
crew when they get old enough.
Our crew rule for Boy Scouts wishing to join is they must
maintain registration and leadership in our troop. Twelve
of our boys earned Eagle in January 2000.
Since we started our crew, we explored caves with the
University of Missouri caving club, went rappelling with the
University of Nebraska climbing club, did whitewater
rafting, snow skiing, and scuba diving.
Our boys sit down with the girls when they join and teach
them “basic scouting” from the Boy Scout Handbook.
We have made presentations for the Ranger program to packs,
troops, Girl Scout Troops, and at roundtables.”
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Hartford, Connecticut
Michael Sobol, Advisor of Crew 57
• “I am the Scoutmaster of Troop 57. My 18 year old son
approached me about organizing a Venturing crew.
Apparently he had been down to the council service
center and picked up some information about
Venturing. He handed me a new unit application and
seven completed youth applications.
• I agreed to be the Advisor of a new Crew 57. My son
wants to earn everything Venturing has created. He had
already earned everything Boy Scouting had to offer.
• His girlfriend also joined the crew. My crew consists of
7 boys and one girl currently.
• My Venturers have been teaching the Ranger skills to
the troop. It has benefited both the troop and the crew.”
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Girls just want to have fun…
• Female Venturers successfully participate in all high
adventure activities (60 mile bike rides, backpacking,
Mile Swim in the Pacific Ocean, and winter
snowboarding.
• Venturers, male and female, assist the troop’s
Leadership Corps in preparing and teaching the
younger boys.
• The crew provides older scouts (who otherwise become
disinterested in scouting at the age of driving and
dating) with a program that retains their interest by
allowing them to pursue higher adventure with female
peers and friends. Co-education fosters mature,
responsible and respectful relationships.
• C.T. Zacharczuk, Advisor- Crew 3712, Van Nuys, CA
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What Are Venturers Saying?
• Sean Luther - 17 year old in Crew 28 and Troop 28,
Pittsburgh, PA. serves as Senior Patrol Leader in Troop 28
and Crew President in Crew 28. Sean believes that the
leadership skills learned in Venturing have helped him be a
better Senior Patrol Leader. Venturing has also provided
new experiences that he would not have experienced if he
was only in the troop.
• Adrian Johnson - 16 year old in Crew 414, Philadelphia, PA
Before joining Venturing she was thinking about joining the
Air Force after high school. She has served as a leader in
Venturing for the past 12 months. She believes that the
leadership skills learned in Venturing and the increased
confidence gained has helped her set new goals. She has
now applied to the Air Force Academy.
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North Olmsted, Ohio
Erica Sheehan, Venturer, Secretary, Crew 630
“My crew has been in existence for about a year and I can honestly tell
you it has been one of the best experiences of my life.
I am the sister of a Star Scout and have been surrounded by Scouting’s
morals and values for years.
On our first campout in March it went down to 10 degrees. We learned
from experience how to pack for winter camping.
In June we went on our first ten mile canoe trip, we had a blast.
In all our outdoor activities I have learned how important it is to work
together and that if there is one person not working to their ability the
rest of the crew can’t function to it’s potential.
The COPE experience was THE bonding experience of my life and I was on
a natural high for days.
We’re all now motivated to work as hard as possible in everything we do,
in Venturing, at home or in school.”
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Fullerton, California
Amanda Delaney and Christina Canino, Crew 214
• Crew 214 was organized in June of 1998, it has 15
boys and 15 girls, chartered to a Presbyterian Church
in Fullerton, California.
• Activities include backpacking, rock climbing,
snowboarding, skiing, and COPE.
• Our members adopted the spruce green shirt as our
formal uniform. We designated a navy blue t-shirt
with our own logo as an activity uniform.
• “We’re all like brothers and sisters, we trust each
other.”
• “We set our own rules; no boy/girl buddy system, go
in threes in mixed company.”
• “Venturing is more than we expected.”
• “The guys have seen me on campouts without my
makeup on and they still like me.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
• Can a Venturer earn Eagle?
• Does a Venturer who is working on Eagle have to be
multiply registered?
• Why is silver higher than gold?
• What is Venturing’s official uniform?
• Where can I get a shirt like that?
• Where do I find advancement requirements?
• What is the difference between Venture and Venturing?
• How do we get Venturing started in my area?
• Can a Venturer get past credit and multiple credit?
• How do I get a copy of this presentation?
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