Silver Award Requirements (Part I)
Craig Bond (craig00@nternet.com)
Fri Aug 28 10:05:56 1998
INTRODUCTION
The Venturing Silver Award is available to all youth Venturing members of
the Boy Scouts of America. The purpose of the Venturing Silver Award is to:
- provide a pathway for personal development
- encourage Venturers to learn, grow, and serve
- recognize the high level of achievement of Venturers who acquire
Venturing skills
- identify trained and highly-motivated Venturers who will be a training,
leadership, and program resource for other Venturers, Scouts,
organizations, and the community
- help define Venturing
HOW TO EARN THE SILVER AWARD
Like any high, worthwhile recognition, the Venturing Silver Award will be
challenging and will take time to earn. It will take you at least 12
months, but there is no limitation on the maximum amount of time other than
you will need to complete all work before your 21st birthday.
REQUIREMENTS (Overview). These are requirements that all Venturing Silver
Award candidates must complete:
1. The Venturing Gold Award requires earning one Venturing Bronze Award.
2. Earn the Venturing Gold Award, which includes knowing and living the
Venturing Oath, service, personal development, and 12 months' tenure.
3. Be proficient in emergency preparedness, including earning Standard
First Aid and CPR certification, and knowing and using BSA Safe Swim Defense.
4. Demonstrate leadership, including successfully completing the Venturing
Leadership Skills course.
5. Participate in the Ethics in Action program, including Ethical
Controversies activities and an Ethics Forum.
6. Show a crew review committee you have met the requirements for the
Venturing Silver Award.
First, sit down with your Advisor to make a plan of action on how you will
earn the Venturing Silver Award. On many of the requirements, you will
work on your own, while some you will work on with other Venturers. Many
requirements will require contacting and working with a specialty
consultant, someone who has extensive knowledge and skill in a particular
area.
You will learn a skill from this person, and the specialty consultant
will determine your proficiency in that skill. You might find it more
convenient to work with several other Venturers at the same time with this
specialty consultant. Many requirements involve a _time element_, such as
working as a volunteer for three months. Take this into consideration when
you are planning. You should probably work on several requirements at the
same time, such as serving as a crew leader while working on a Bronze Award
requirement.
You can receive _dual credit_ for work required in different places.
Examples: If you get certified in Standard First Aid, you can use this
credit toweard Silver Award requirement No. 2, Ranger Award core
requirement No. 1, and Youth Ministries requirement No. 8.
When you have complete a requirement, either have an Advisor or
specialty consultant initial and date your track sheet to confirm your
completion of this requirment.
When you have completed all Silver Award requirements, ask your Advosor
or crew president for a Silver Award review. The review commiteee will be
made up of Venturers and adults. They will determine if you have
successfully completed all requirements, and then recommend to your BSA
local council that the council, representing the National Court of Honor,
present you the highest Venturing award a Venturer can earn -- the
Venturing Silver Award.
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Above information copied from _Silver Award Guidebook_ (25-015), 1998
printing.
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Devices, ribbons, etc., for uniform and civilian are not well-described in
this book and a new Insignia Control Guide or a flyer or poster with this
information were not included in the information I retrieved. The
Venturing Silver Award itself is pictured: it has a silver bar with the
word Venturing debossed and from this is suspended a white ribbon with two
thin green vertical stripes, from which by a silver ring is suspended a
silver circle on whose outside is printed two words (indistinguishable to
these feeble eyes, even aided by a glass), with the BSA logo at the top of
the outside circle. In the center of the circle is another circle, divided
equally into three horizontal stripes, blue, white and red (top to bottom),
and over all of these circles is a flying eagle, wings high.
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There are more details in the book. The next installment (Part II) will
detail these -- some time over the weekend. They are only details about
the above, however, and do not change or substantially add to these
requirements.
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My apologies for any misspellings. I've tried to pick them up, typos too,
but do not guarantee the above to be free of these or other errors.
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Craig Bond
Mandeville, Louisiana
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Anyone can count the seeds in an apple;
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