Advisor Jim

preaty much of the whole Venturing program was left out of WB, at least the course I took last year.Since the new WB includes Cub,Boy, and Venturing Scouts, I participated as A Venturer My experiance with the"new" WB is that it was an awesome experiance for me, New friends and alot of new opportunities, the staff was awesome. Yes we had to suffer through the first weekend of powerpoints, and classroom stuff but we also had time to get to know everybody. but as a Venturer or experianced Scouter you can really shine on the outdoor weekend. Do not go to Woodbadge thinking you are going to come out of it with all the outdoor knowledge there is, that is what you learn on outings with the youth or from books and practical experiance. Some people like the Cubscouts may have "never" been camping in thier lives our tickets were based on what would be benificial to our specific job titles in scouting, one was diversification- my diversification ticket was to get at least 25% female involvment in the Venturing Crew do not make your tickets too hard you want to be able to have tickets that you can complete within 18 months all in all it was awesome C-08-02 I am currently working on my WB Venturing Advisor Tickets 2 down 3 to go If you don't want to spend money on uniforms just join Venturing! there is no required uniform. There is only an official, preferred, but not required uniform I used to be a beaver and a good old beaver too! Jim

So you say the B.S.A. has a Head Executive for the Venture Program, isn't the Venture Program part of Boy Scouts and not the Venturing Program In order to stop the confusion between Boy Scout Venture Patrols and Venturing Crews The Program is called Venturing,we have members that are called Venturers, and units are called Venturing Crews not Venture Crews You say "think outside of the box" and I say "what box"? As far as the Official not required but preferred uniform do you really think the B.S.A. wants Girl Scout emblems on them!!! Ask your Council Executive, not your District Executive I know that each Crew can pick their own uniforms except for tan B.S.A. shirts with green loops Federal Law prohibits the use of any military uniform for any organization. The B.S.A. is exempt from this law as long as all military insignia is removed and replaced with B.S.A. insignia. The idea is that to the casual observer that the uniform is part of the B.S.A. Not the U.S. military If Crews can choose their own uniform. Could they pick the official Girl Scout Uniform for their Crew and wear B.S.A. insignia and rank badges on them? Could you imagine an Eagle Court of Honor with that uniform on a 14-17 year old male youth Crew member Just something to think about!!! Jim

It is up to your Council's Executive and only him or her if female youth are allowed to wear Girl Scout rank badges or medals, not the individual Crews Venturing Crew 80 out of Germantown Wi. will have a Venturing promotion display at the Milwaukee Sport Show March 14-23 2003 Our Charter is the Gander Mountain store in Germantown WI., they are allowing us to use some of their space We cannot thank them enough for their support to the Venturing Program Jim

Venturing Crew 80 out of Germantown Wi. will have a Venturing Promotion display at the Milwaukee Sport Show March 14-23 2003 Our Chartering Organization is The Gander Mountain Store in Germantown,Wisconsin, They let us have some of their space for the Venturing Program and our Crew of course We can not thank them enough for being such an awesome Charter for our Crew Stop on by and see it!!! Jim Advisor Venturing Crew 80

I am already signed up for this course Am truely looking foward to being there. Jim Advisor Venturing Crew 80 Germantown WI. Gander Mountain Charter

If the female youth in Venturing Crews feel like they are 2nd class citizens. It is the individual crews that are doing it to them not the program. Our female youth don't really care about being an Eagle Scouts. Most of The Girl Scouts that we get are already Gold Awarded in Girl Scouts. They way to make them feel equal is to treat them equal! We try to make everything equal in our Crew!! The male youth and adults in the Crews should treat the females as equal because they are giong to have to do it the rest of their lives. It wasn't that long ago that females were not allowed to be leaders in Boy Scouts! we have to teach them the outdoor skills they need because the Girl Scouts don't. The only way we know how to teach them is The Boy Scout Handbook. The female youth that come into our Crew want the outdoor experiance. Each of our crews can choose what age we let youth in. our Boyscouts coming in have to be Life Rank and 15 years old. We did that because we didn't want to take all the older youth away from the Troop. What happened was all the 15 year olds came in but then some of them didn't like the Venturing program so now they just do the Troop thing. We have the same problem here trying to convince Scoutmasters that Venturing is a great program resource for the troops. If we can keep the youth involved in scouting till 21st birthday wouldn't that be AWESOME The only way to get them to change thier minds is to start a Crew and be successful.Help out the Troops in your area.For Venturing Awards the youth have to teach others, well have them teach the Boy Scouts. We try by having our youth do uniform inspections for Cub Packs. Don't give up on the program because that is exactly what they are expecting us to do!!! The key to Venturing Acceptance is promoting the program in a positive way. the program started in aug. 1998 give it time at least all of us will be the forfathers of Venturing Leave a Legacy Your Friend in Venturing Jim

We are a COED High Adventure Venturing Crew in Wisconsin Established Aug. 2001 12 youth & 14 adults How we make this program work is we found a Chartering Organization that works with our program We are chartered by the Germantown WI. Gander Mountain. They provide us with knowledgable people for the activities we want to do. For example: They have hunter's safety courses running so we ALL can go hunting Gander Mountain is letting us use a table at the Milwaukee Sport Show for Venturing promotion. promote your crews abilities!!!!! Think outside of the box. let the youth run your programs, it is alot more challenging for them. let them have fun,play music on outings,video game time, this isn't Boy Scouts, Think outside of the box. If you let them have fun and they will keep coming back. One fun meeting night all we did was play HALO on X-Box 7 venturers competing at the same time. Some chips and soda which were donated anyways. they had a blast. We had 2 non scouts show up that night and now they are in our crew. Think outside of the box!!! put the emphisis of your crew on FUN and not so much on Venturing Advancement All crews need the 14 year olds for membership renewal and they love being with the older youth that will teach them leadership skills For outings use the existing B.S.A. camps that put on outings for Venturers Like Hanna Venture Base in Rhinelander WI. We are going up there to get basic Scuba certification this summer "Target" certain youth for your programs not just whoever comes along. Let them know ahead of time what is expected of them. As far as Female youth they cannot earn Boy Scout Advancement but they can earn Boy Scout Awards.They can earn anything but Star, Life and Eagle. What should Venturing do, not let females join till they are 18. Then they wouldn't make the age requirement. Would that be FAIR. As far as the Order of the Arrow Isn't it true that you are a youth till your 21st birthday so why shouldn't Venturing male youth that was elected as Boy Scouts belong to OA we are all part of the B.S.A. Just run your own program the way it is intended and stop whining about how the female youth can't do some of it. It may not be FAIR, but so is not letting homosexuals in Scouting. And we all are against that, right! if you need more advice or comments e-mail me direct MUSKY1011@aol.com Jim