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Can a Venturing Association be formed as a chartering organization? And could this same Venturing Association charter more than one crew? Could it also encompass more than one council?

Good evening all: On page 332 of the Venturing Leader Manual under uniforms and insignia, Venturers can wear the suggested uniform the spruce green short sleeve shirt with green shoulder loops and either the charcoal gray shorts or long pants. This also applies to the advisors and other adults on the crew committee, and District,Council,Division and national adult leaders related to the Venturing program and they can wear shoulder loops related to the crew(green)district (silver) council and national (gold). However uniform if any is the choice of the crew. There is no mention of headge

recruiting via a Venturing expo where crews set up exhibits, and do some activites that the crews are known to do.

I am Sorry Dana, OGE here, I tried to delete the second post of the double posting and I ended up wiping out both. I apologize and will not attempt such forays on your posts in the future. (This message has been edited by a staff member.)

To all Youth ages 14-21, adult leaders in BSA and Girl Scouts ages 14-21. A unique program exists known as Venturing, it is the young adult program of the Boy Scouts of America, many crews are co-ed, and outdoor adventure oriented, adventure and fun are some of the things that Venturing is known for, also youth run crews, Sea Scouting is fun at sea, sailing, scuba and other fun activities, their units are known as ships. Arts and Hobbies,photography, acting, music,theater are some things Arts and Hobbies crews can do, Religious Life are crews that are close to religious institutions. and Sport

Sergei: If you will go to the web site for the Air Force Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB in Alabama you might can get some ideas on how you might could run a Youth Officer Training program a lot of OTS is academic as well as physical and military and a great deal of patriotism as well. Thanks Dana

Crews need to advertise, do things that put them in the community eye. Participate in service projects in the community. When a local Boy Scout Troop does things the local newspapers get a story from the troop, When a local Cub Scout Pack does something we see the story in the newspaper. When a Boy Scout earns Eagle again it is in the paper. But I do not see anything concerning Venturing crews or Sea Scout Ships. Crews rely too much on the internet, sure it is easy but easy does not always cut it. Especially for recruiting. Word of mouth does a lot, fun programs will help too. If the youth are

Advancement could be a part of the crew program if the youth want to do it. If the crew goes for advancements then as a male Venturer who was a First class in the troop encourage him to continue and earn his Eagle as long as he within the age limits (under age 18) Even after this young man earns his Eagle encourage him to earn Venturing awards. Encourage everyone in the crew to earn Venturing awards. Design ceremonies for award presentations. If people are having trouble with certain things then have tutorials, or clinics.Put pride in the crew.

Make advancement fun, Have advancement clinics, When your crew does backpacking for example have the Venturers bring their books have the Advisor or another adult check off the requirements. This was done when a Venturing crew did an orienteering activity with a Boy Scout troop, certificates where made up as well for the event and a presentation was made at a crew meeting. Think scoutlike. Some crews are doing a 2 year Ranger program. In the Venturing Reference Guide pg74 under "advancement,Venturing. The Venturing advancement program is based on achievement proficiency in a variety of skill

Under my previous posts on a maritime interest under Sea Scouts I mean for Marine Career Programs this is on page 66 in the Sea Scout Manual can a ship adopt a marine career program only? Also can a ship also adopt a Merchant Marine Midshipman program similar to what is offered at the US Merchant Marine Academy or co-opt much of this Midshipman program and use it in their ship's Program? If so are there any ships out there doing it. On the same token could an aquatic interest Venturing crew do this as well.

Venture Scout. The crew that I am unit commissioner of did a Banquet for recognition of 2 Venturers that earned both Gold and Silver Awards. I believe they borrowed some things from the Eagle ceremony. What I am talking about is to put some ceremonies in crews so it makes the meetings to be something of meaning to Venturers. Earlier last week a Crew Advisor from Texas asked about having a crew officers induction ceremony. I referred him to the Sea Scout Manual and on page 27 of that manual there is a Petty Officer Installation Ceremony. Later he e mailed me and received the suggestion well. I

I have noticed especially in my council that Venturing is not as well attended to as is Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts there is more knowledge concerning troops and packs than to crews. 2 years ago there was Powderhorn a Venturing style familiarization session that went for 2 sessions on a weekend consisting of 3 days each. Many scoutmasters, advisors, committee, council and district people attended it. A few new crews have been started. Council VOA is having a Beachfest this summer, these are all encouraging, but when it comes to district and council no one seems to want to consider Venturing and the

Earlier this week of May 2004 we had an advisor of a Venturing crew ask about crew officer induction ceremonies to bring in a little meaning to crew meetings. We referred him to the Sea Scout Manual, which still has a lot of the traditional Sea Scout ceremonies to put meaning in ship meetings and special occasions. Is there to anyone's knowledge a book, manual or pamphlet that Venturing crews can use for ceremonies or induction ceremonies or recognition ceremonies. Or is it the common practice among crews and ships to borrow from old material or use Boy Scout ceremonies? Do we need to write a

Jason If you have a copy of the Sea Scout Manual on page 27 in the "Ship Meetings and Activities" chapter under Installation of Petty Officers " there is a brief ceremony for outgoing and incoming ship officers maybe you can augment the ceremony for your crew. It's worth a shot. By the way this a recent Sea Scout Manual.

In my Council 2 years ago we had a multi-council event the University of Scouting where 3 councils went together and had a UOS in a neighboring council in a different state. Anyway there were people there from 3 councils even Girl Scout leaders were invited. Point is if they can do that with a UOS they can do that with Venturing Camps. Sea Scouting holds regattas and invites other ships from other councils to attend and invites volunteers to help staff the regatta. Look at Jamborees, and I am just talking about Venturing Camps for the summer. I do believe it can be done as far as volunteers fr

What I am talking about is this, If scout camps have much land that they can devote to a Venturing Camp why not run a Venturing Camp and invite crews from the hosting council as well as the neighboring councils. Instead of every council running their own Venturing Camp. This could be helpful to the councils and every council that send it's crews to that camp could also have a representative on the camp committee for the Venturing camp. Maybe this idea could go down to the Boy Scout and Cub Scout camp activities too. This may save a lot of money in the long run. The neighboring councils could s

Now let's do a new thing a Venturing Camp completely dedicated to the entire Venturing Program for the entire summer. Are there many scout camps that are large to accomodate a seperate Venturing Camp, if so then why not have one that will serve many crews and ships from their councils as well as others? High Adventure activities, Arts and Hobbies activities for those crews, Relgious Life crews may could help lead religious services at the camp. Sea Scouts could do COPE or the land based programs that Sea Scouts do. Summer Camp Crew for the staff. Sports clinics for the Sports crews. Well maybe

Venture Scout, sorry about the double postings, I hit the submit once and it does it twice don't know why it does this. I have asked many people about this and even have complained about this and got no satisifaction, Sorry. Well you are one of the people who feel that I am trying to reinvent the wheel. Well not really, I am trying to find consensus on what Sea Scout Ships are doing in this Maritime Interest Sea Scout post, I basically am a person that does ideas and like to brainstorm ideas, and will stick around to put them into action. It is not my intentiion to confuse other people, or to

Bob we also use the Venturing Roundtable Guide for the Roundtable ideas. Last Year the first roundtable was a banquet for Venturing and basically a Brainstorming session a breakout session for the youth and It was a good session food really brings people out. Then We did a Roundtable on Sea Scouts a ship from a neighboring council helped us out since the one in our council was just started. The third roundtable was a Winter Sports skiing and snowboarding, The Last real roundtable was on Climbing and Mountaineering. We were sidetracked by Council for a while and finally we received clearance to

Venturing Roundtables will resume in August, Ideally they are held every 3 months, I try to have a Staff Meeting about a month before the Roundtable. We were getting some advisors to come though not enough there are about 26 crews in our council. The roundtable is council wide and we try to cover a lot of the topics that Venturing can use. We also try to keep up with the Venturing Officers Association and they have helped us with presentations when we needed youth to assist us. As a Unit Commissioner for a Crew sometimes I have helped with some activities for the Crew, back in March we took 2

In this I mean where there are a part of a council or where other councils would come together and design a Venturing camp for High Adventure activities in Venturing or a Sea Scout interest camp, something located near a large body of water. Or maybe a Venturing Camp that would do a program designed for all the Venturing specialties. I am aware that most BSA Camps are open to crews as well as troops, teams, ships and posts, and packs. But where one would do primarily a Venturing camp for just a week or so.

To support Venturing in my council, I am a Venturing Roundtable Commissioner, also a Unit Commissioner for a Venturing Crew I attend District Committee Meetings, I habve attended Camporees, In the roundtables we have addressed the Sea Scouting Program, winter sports, first roundtable was with a banquet. I helped lead Venturers in Orienteering, and we are now planning a council camporee, I advise a crew advisor also as a part of the unit commissioner, and on the Roundtable for Venturing I have 2 staff members that work with me. I have a Bachelors of Commissioner Science that I earned in 2002 fr

Venture Scout and Scoutldr Why I mentioned this is to give ships an idea for a program there are already Maritime Careers listed in the Sea Scout Manual , As a UC sometimes I help with brainstorming for crews. This could be a new idea for some ships to try. Again I am not trying to re-invent the wheel as accused by other scouters. Just reading the Sea Scout Manual. No history just present program

I am fairly new to this site, from what I gather it is quite good, but the people who post on this site are the people who will challenge you and this is good. I currently am a Unit Commissioner for Venturing in the Horseshoe Trail District in the Chester County Council BSA. I was a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout in the 1960's I just attained the rank of First Class Scout. In 1996 when my son joined Troop 116 I signed on as an Assistant Scoutmaster in a Venture Crew Patrol in 1998 I helped to start a Venturing Crew in a Civil Air Patrol Squadron. Then signing up for Unit Commissioner in 2002 for V

To create a new program within Sea Scouting. Maritime Interest Sea Scout ships, to sail the bounding main, learn seamanship, oceanography, to serve an apprenticeship aboard a merchant ship, or a ocean tug, a cruise ship, a riverboat on the Mississippi River, to learn Naval Customs and Courtesy and about the US Merchant Marine the second year for Sea Scouts a week of that year summer camp at sea, or at Sea Base. Young men and women spending time at a sea camp learning marine biology. A program like this could start a new specialty within Sea Scouting.