Venturing Program Latest Topicshttps://www.scouter.com/forum/36-venturing-program/Venturing Program Latest TopicsenGirl Scout Gold Award Square Knothttps://www.scouter.com/topic/23460-girl-scout-gold-award-square-knot/I don't normally believe in making up knots but I have several girls in my Crew that have or will be receiving the Gold Scout Gold Award. I asked if they would like a square knot to wear on their Venturing uniform and the answer was yes.

 

Taking the colors from the Gold Award badge, the knot would be light blue and gold with a gold border on a Venturing green background.

 

I'm interested in your thoughts; please let me hear from you.

http://www.sageventure.com/venturing/knots.htm#GSGold

 

YIV,

Craig Murray

Venturing Advisor

Webmaster, Venturing Notebook

]]>23460Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:32:55 +0000"Specialist" or "Generalist" Crew --- What's More Common?https://www.scouter.com/topic/31210-specialist-or-generalist-crew-whats-more-common/ Just wondering whether it's more common for a Venturing crew to specialize in a certain kind of activity, or whether it's more common for them to do a smattering of whatever floats their boats...

Any thoughts?


See:

https://venturingcrew.blogspot.com/p/what-will-our-crew-do.html

 

]]>31210Thu, 23 May 2019 19:16:11 +0000Crew-Troop relationshttps://www.scouter.com/topic/33533-crew-troop-relations/ Help! Our local scout units have difficulty working together and the kids are being caught in the middle. I have been running the local Venture Crew for 13 years now. Over the years we have had mixed relations with the local Boy Troop, wonderful relations with the local Girl Troop, and have actively started building more with the local Pack. Our Boy Troop Scoutmaster actively slanders our unit to the kids in the Troop at every opportunity, attempts to schedule events with us and then cancels them the week of and spreads false information about the event, other times he actively schedules troop events the same time as ours to force the kids to choose, harasses our youth members when they wear their green Venturing shirts to activities or meetings, withholds advancement from them for weeks to get the non-dual registered scouts through before they do, and various other things. How is this proper conduct for a scoutmaster and his assistants?

The Charter Organization Representative for the Troop had the Crew's charter cancelled at the church we at in 2010 (which forced us to find a new charter group) so speaking to him is not really an option. Our Council has previously turned a blind eye to the conduct that this Troop and their Scoutmaster has shown to scouts and other units. What do we do?

]]>33533Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:45:35 +0000Troop to Venturing to Eaglehttps://www.scouter.com/topic/33707-troop-to-venturing-to-eagle/ We recently just started a crew and I have a scout that started her Eagle scout project with her troop. She is no longer comfortable in her troop as things have gone array and the mixture between the charters girl and boy troop are so mingled she said that they are officially known as the "hook up troop". I don't have much to say about that, but she asked me if it was a possibility to move her Eagle project over to our Venturing Crew.

We are in a neighboring council. Is this something that is doable? What are the steps to be done? Does she need to start over?

Any help, links, advice would be appreciated!

]]>33707Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:38:20 +0000Convert “stand alone” Venturing Crews into Scouts BSA Venturing “Patrols”?https://www.scouter.com/topic/33054-convert-%E2%80%9Cstand-alone%E2%80%9D-venturing-crews-into-scouts-bsa-venturing-%E2%80%9Cpatrols%E2%80%9D/ Should co-ed Venturing Crews be folded into Scouts BSA as Venturing “Patrols”?  My posting last week sought ideas to upgrade prospects of “stand-alone” Venturing attracted little interest except for some good comments focused on diagnosing the problems.  This is not a surprise, as membership numbers and program support structures have plummeted or entirely disappeared in many councils. For purposes of this posting we will assume that Venturing is no longer sufficiently numerous to continue as the current “stand alone” program.  Assuming non-viability is the case (even if you disagree with the assumption): What do you think should be done with Venturing?  It occurs to me that the principal options include:

1.         Terminate Venturing entirely and focus financial and leadership resources elsewhere.

2.         Convert Venturing to an optional program like STEM Scouts.  Allow the remaining Venturing Crews to continue, but reallocate council resources elsewhere.

3.         Convert Venturing “Crews” into Scouts BSA “Patrols” attached to a Scouts BSA Troop.

4.         Spin-off Venturing into the non-BSA “Learning for Life” entity and allow them to function under the support structure for Exploring.

5.         Continue as-is and see what happens.

My personal leaning is that Venturing can best be positioned as a “Patrol” attached to a Scouts BSA Troop.  There are a number of interesting program and operational issues that would need to be considered, but I think it is doable.  Converting Venturing into a council-optional program or folding it into Exploring might be a formula for a continued slide into oblivion, but perhaps there are advantages to those approaches I am not aware of.

What say you?  I think this is an issue that will be dealt with within a year or so.  I have simultaneously posted a different thread asking what factors keep Sea Scouts and Law Enforcement Exploring functioning well.  If there are lessons to be learned from those programs that can be applied to Venturing, please use that posting to share your thoughts.

]]>33054Wed, 25 May 2022 13:34:18 +0000What Keeps Sea Scouts and Law Enforcement Exploring Running So Well?https://www.scouter.com/topic/33053-what-keeps-sea-scouts-and-law-enforcement-exploring-running-so-well/ What Keeps Sea Scouts and Law Enforcement Exploring Running So Well?  COVID, the bankruptcy, and other operational and program deformations have severely impacted Venturing, but Sea Scouts and Law Enforcement Exploring seem to just continue on with sufficient numbers of young adult and adult members.  There is not much in the way of needed BSA professional time or financial investment.  What are the factors about these teen-focused programs that have quietly kept them operating for decades?

]]>33053Wed, 25 May 2022 13:29:09 +0000How to increase Venturing membership and prospects?https://www.scouter.com/topic/33047-how-to-increase-venturing-membership-and-prospects/ Venturing enrollment has decreased significantly during the course of recent BSA challenges.  This thread will focus on: What could or should be done now to increase the membership and prospects of the Venturing program as in independent BSA program unit?  Feel free to comment on both administrative and programmatic elements of Venturing, including its advancement program.  Please focus only on Venturing and not Sea Scouts or Exploring.  Next week I will post a thread asking for suggestions on how Venturing might be structured as part of Scouts BSA – so please defer that discussion until then.    

]]>33047Tue, 17 May 2022 17:35:21 +0000New Sea Scout Boatswainhttps://www.scouter.com/topic/32581-new-sea-scout-boatswain/ https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2021/04/23/sea-scoutings-top-youth-for-2021-22-sees-exciting-things-on-the-horizon/?fbclid=IwAR2y9WFfZS7nz9mXhG2FyyEFZALGcqfxtWP5VxRymG7_7RGxyG90BqLa2HM
 

Good gosh, read this young women’s bio. Eagle Scout, Gold Award, Debate Team.....and more. I don’t know what Scouting is going to look like on the other side of the BK but I so hope that it will be able to thrive so that kids can experience everything from troop camp outs to the heights of leadership opportunities.

]]>32581Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:32:43 +0000Sea Scouts is OFFICIALLY the youth program of US Coast Guard Auxiliaryhttps://www.scouter.com/topic/31751-sea-scouts-is-officially-the-youth-program-of-us-coast-guard-auxiliary/ Saw the announcement on Scouting Newsroom.   Not sure what kind of impact it may have on Sea Scout program other than, perhaps, to raise awareness within USCG Auxiliary.  Any thoughts from Sea Scouters?

https://www.scoutingnewsroom.org/press-releases/u-s-coast-guard-auxiliary-and-the-boy-scouts-of-america-announce-sea-scouts-as-the-auxiliarys-official-youth-program/ 

 

]]>31751Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:51:21 +0000Ship 198 handles engine fire in Delaware Bayhttps://www.scouter.com/topic/31317-ship-198-handles-engine-fire-in-delaware-bay/ "It wasn't adults or sailors who've been on the water for 20 years that handled the situation. It was kids no older than 17 years old, 18 years old who used the training they received in such a program to make sure what could have been an absolute disaster did not turn into an absolute disaster," Marshall said. "We took control of the situation." 

More details and photos at source

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/06/19/sea-scouts-save-sailboat-fire-c-d-canal/1497467001/

P.S. Isn't the term "scuttle" incorrectly used in this article?

]]>31317Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:59:37 +0000Phoning it in ...https://www.scouter.com/topic/25957-phoning-it-in/Now that our council has expanded our VOA cabinet is relying on phone conferences. Each youth officer is more than an hour away from the others.

We tried video but that had a host of problems. (Didn't work for everybody, sometimes not for anybody. When it did work didn't help the discussion advance much.)

Except for 15 minutes of fumbling because the wrong # was circulated, our first phone conference of the year seemed to go well, and I'm looking forward to hearing our VOA President improve as the year goes forward.

 

Besides making sure everyone has the right number :p, Does anyone have tips/tricks for managing phone conferences?

]]>25957Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:38:13 +0000Skydiving?https://www.scouter.com/topic/31674-skydiving/ Are Venturers allowed to skydive?

I thought this was a prohibited activity for every level of scouting, but I see a very interesting article about the 10 best places to skydive in the online Venturing Magazine: http://www.venturingmag.org/ 

]]>31674Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:31:33 +0000New Venturing Crew Here!https://www.scouter.com/topic/30452-new-venturing-crew-here/ After 10 yrs of GS, I have just started a Venturing Crew and couldn't be happier.  Have an amazing CO!

Just had our first recruitment event, which was more about being visible to the CO parish and making connects then actual recruitment.  Trying to learn as much as I can about the rules and our program, but I'd love to hear from Crews and their tips for newbies!

What was the first trip you went on?

How did you deal with funding when popcorn sales aren't going so great?

 

Thank you

]]>30452Sun, 09 Sep 2018 22:23:45 +0000Humanitairehttps://www.scouter.com/topic/31390-humanitaire/

 

PROGRAMMES CAMPS CHANTIER SOLIDAIRE ET INTERNATIONAL AU TOGO EN 2019/2020

(Court terme : 3-4 semaines)

 

 

Bonjour à tous les bénévoles et stagiaires !

Vous êtes un groupe d’étudiants, un groupe de lycéens ou un groupe de scout, un éducateur spécialisé, assistant(e) social, fonctionnaires, retraités actifs, en congés ou en vacances ?

Vous êtes une association, une organisation non gouvernementale(ONG) désirant avoir un partenaire sûr en Afrique et plus précisément au Togo afin d’élaborer ensemble des projets communautaires ?

Vous désirez partager vos expériences, connaître d’autres peuples, vivre leur quotidien. Vous rêvez d'un voyage inoubliable et vous voulez vous rendre utile à travers des actions humanitaires en Afrique ?

Vous rêvez de vacances utiles, riches en couleurs et remplies de souvenirs inoubliables ? N'hésitez pas à nous joindre  pour une mission de volontariat !

Vous êtes les bienvenus !

V.F-TOGO est une association humanitaire de volontariat qui mène des projets concrets pour le développement des communautés les plus vulnérables en Afrique, des projets qui, peu à peu, améliorent concrètement et durablement les conditions de vie de milliers de populations.

Enregistré sous le N°0775/MATDCL-SG-DLPAP-DOCA  au Ministère togolais de l’Administration Territoriale et de la Décentralisation conformément à la loi N° 40-484 du 1er Juillet 1901, V.F-TOGO vous propose cette année un grand nombre de projets. Les missions de V.F-TOGO vous permettent d’apporter une aide concrète sur le terrain.

 

LES CAMPS CHANTIERS SOLIDAIRES EN ETE (court terme)

- DU 06 JUIN AU 27 JUIN

Renforcement associatif  + Loisir et animation socio-éducative avec les enfants + Intégration familiale   

Lieu : TOGO/Lomé

Nombre de volontaire attendus : 8

 

- DU 04 AU 25 JUILLET

Sensibilisation sur les IST et VIH SIDA + Loisir et animation socio-éducative avec les enfants + Intégration familiale   

Lieu : TOGO/ Anyavé    

Nombre de volontaire attendus : 7

 

- DU 01 AU 22 AOUT  

Soutien scolaire + Formation et Production d’œuvres artistiques (confection des draps, T-shirts et sacs en Batik)  + Loisir et animation socio-éducative avec les enfants+ Intégration familiale   

Lieu : TOGO / Aynavé

Nombre de volontaire attendus : 10

- DU 05 AU 26 SEPTEMBRE

Soutien scolaire + Formation et Production d’œuvres artistiques (confection des draps, T-shirt et sac en Batik) + Loisir et animation socio-éducative avec les enfants + Intégration familiale  

Lieu : TOGO/Aného    

Nombre de volontaire attendus : 10

 

- DU 03 AU 24 OCTOBRE  

Aménagement d’espace de jeux en faveur des enfants + Formation et Production d’œuvres artistiques (confection des draps, T-shirt et sac en Batik) + Loisir et animation  socio-éducative avec les enfants + Intégration familiale 

Lieu : TOGO/ Agbanlépédo  

Nombre de volontaire attendus : 9

 

- DU 05 AU 26 NOVEMBRE

Rénovation de bâtiment scolaire + Loisir  et animation  socio-éducative avec les enfants + Intégration familiale 

Lieu : TOGO/ Lomé  

Nombre de volontaire attendus : 7

 

-DU 07 AU 28 DECEMBRE

Sos Environnement + + Loisir  et animation  socio-éducative avec les enfants + Intégration familiale 

Lieu : TOGO/ Adeticopé

Nombre de volontaire attendus : 10

 

RYTHME DE TRAVAIL________________________________________________

LES MATINEES :   Lever vers 6h00 –6H30 – Préparation du petit déjeuner et recherche de l’eau. Travail de 8h00 à 11h environ, dans des conditions parfois rudes  dues à la température (34° et plus) (…plus tôt ou plus tard…nous sommes à l’heure africaine ! « En Europe, nous avons la montre ; en Afrique, ils ont le Temps ! »

 

LES APRES-MIDI : elles sont partagées entre la préparation des animations socio-éducatives avec les enfants, formation et production des œuvres artistiques, les tâches et occupations personnelles : lessive, visite de village, activités folkloriques comme percussions, chants, initiation à l’éwé (la langue locale),  sieste( !)…

 

LES WEEK-ENDS : ils sont libres et consacrés à des différentes visites des sites touristiques et sorties (faire la pirogue, cascades, centre artisanal et plage &hellip .

 

PROGRAMME JOURNALIER DU CHANTIER

 Chaque bénévole doit contribué à la réussite de ce chantier.

 Participation aux tâches quotidiennes

Il n’est pas exclu qu’il soit demandé aux bénévoles et volontaires de participer régulièrement aux tâches liées au nettoyage, à la cuisine, à la vaisselle. Souvent, il y a des groupes de corvées qui se sont constitués et ces groupes assument leur tâche quotidienne selon une manière rotative établie où chaque bénévole est appelé à participer chaque jour à une corvée durant le chantier…

 

EMPLOI DU TEMPS JOURNALIER DU SOUTIEN SCOLAIRE

 

06 H 00                                     REVEIL EQUIPE DE CUISINE

06H 30                                               REVEIL GENERAL

07H-7h45                                  PETIT DEJEUNER

08H00                                       SOUTIEN SCOLAIRE

11H                                          FIN DES ACTIVITES

12H                                          DEJEUNER+RAPPORT DE LA JOURNEE PRECEDENTE

12H30-14H                                PAUSE

14H-17H                                   ANIMATION SOCIOEDUCATIVE AVEC  LES ENFANTS/ FORMATION ET PRODUCTION DES ŒUVRES ARTISTIQUES

19H00                                       DINER

20H-23H                                   DEBAT + JEUX+ANIMATION AVEC LE    GROUPE + DISCUSSION

23H00                                       COUVRE FEU

 

 

Le petit déjeuner est à l’européenne... Les tâches ménagères (vaisselle, ménage cuisine&hellip sont réparties entre les volontaires. Cependant, V.F-TOGO a l'habitude d'organiser pour toute l'équipe une journée Togolaise et une journée Française organisée par  le groupe de nos amis européens ou chacun fait découvrir ses spécialités. Il faut prévoir 3 repas par jour en fonction du nombre de volontaires qui partent.  Nous donnons aussi la possibilité aux expatriés de nous faire  découvrir  leur  repas  lors  d’une  journée  française.  Pour cette journée Française, vous pouvez emporter les ingrédients nécessaires car les produits importés sont chers ou introuvables. Exemples : vin, spécialités régionales, tartine, confiture.

 

NB : les dates de départs prévus pour nos différentes missions sont flexibles. Vous pouvez donc nous rejoindre à tout moment selon votre disponibilité.

Dossiers à fournir pour le stage/la mission :

•         Fiche d'inscription à la mission

•         Une lettre de motivation adressée à l’association (préciser la spécialité, vos attentes, objectifs, la période exacte de votre disponibilité pour effectuer le stage ou la mission)

CONTACT AU TOGO

Tel : 00228 92 45 84 95 / 99 54 76 50

CONTACT EN FRANCE

Tel : 0033658586935 

CONTACT EN BELGIQUE

Tel : 0032 493 5 01 24 (Whatsapp de préférence)

 

Email : jeunesse.visionfuture@hotmail.com / espacevolontariat.togo@gmail.com

www.espace-volontariat.wixsite.com/vf-togo /

Pour plus d’informations « VISITER », « AIMER » et « PARTAGER » notre page officielle sur facebook : https://www.facebook.com/vf.togo/

 

BLOG DE TEMOIGNAGES

http://espace-volontariats-togo.skyrock.com/

BLOG DE VOYAGES

https://www.pinterest.com/simonvandekerkh/pins/

ZOMM SUR UNE ASSOCIATION DE SOLIDARITE

http://www.ghottativi.com/2018/02/zoom-sur-une-association-de-solidarite_7.html

TEMOIGNANGES MISSIONS HUMANITAIRES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpbnSQF2i40

https://youtu.be/JhHAz48bvjsop

IL N'EST PAS TARD POUR CANDIDATER ALORS RÉSERVEZ DES MAINTENANT CAR IL RESTE ENCORE DES PLACES !

]]>31390Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:02:15 +0000Starting a Sea Scouts Shiphttps://www.scouter.com/topic/31343-starting-a-sea-scouts-ship/ I found this news story about starting a Ship, please add posts regarding starting a Ship.

Eagle Scout Bill Murphey has been involved with the Boy Scouts of America since the 1970s...Growing up on the Jersey Shore, Murphey has also put in more than 40 years on the water, sailing and racing on the Barnegat Bay. He always wondered why there had never been a Sea Scouts chapter established on the South Jersey shore.

Recently, Murphey found a prophesy in a box of his grandfather’s memorabilia, where he discovered photos of his great uncle, John Wood, a sea scout in North Jersey. The photographs were of a cruise Wood took with Sea Scout Ship 117 in the year 1914. Coincidentally, Murphey’s junior sailing group at the Barnegat Bay Yacht Club is group 117. So, when Capt. Pat Geiger reached out to recruit him to a Sea Scouts ship in Little Egg Harbor, Murphey climbed aboard with enthusiasm, suggesting they take on the augural ship number.

“I thought, someone’s going to lead this ship, and it might as well be me,” Murphey chuckled. Just like that, he became skipper of Sea Scout Ship 117, which comprises about a dozen male and female scouts and, according to Geiger, will be chartered by the West Creek Volunteer Fire Co.

Geiger stated that Eagle Scouts Todd and Paul Lund had done most of the work, and were already holding meetings before recruiting any adults. “Pretty impressive for our local Eagle Scouts,” Geiger praised. The scouts elected Geiger as their executive officer, Todd Lund Sr. as committee chairman, Virginia Lund as treasurer, and named several mates including Lou Foster and Capt. Robert Meseck.

...

continued with history, crew interviews, and program at news source:

https://www.thesandpaper.net/p/all-aboard-teens-form-first-sea-scouts-chapter-in-ocean-county/1819868

P.S.

According to First Mate Foster, the ship is responsible for organizing and executing a long cruise. Their first goal is a 14-mile cruise to Atlantic City on Independence Day. If they achieve this goal, they will sail out to Atlantic City, tie up to watch the fireworks, and sail back. Murphey said he expects overnight trips by this August.

]]>31343Thu, 04 Jul 2019 11:08:21 +0000