Winterfest (TN) - Explorers, Venturers, older Scouts Feb 9-11,2024

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Winterfest is an exciting, fun-filled, and competitive event for Explorers, Venturers, Sea Scouts & older Scouts BSA troops. Winterfest is an action-packed 2-day event filled with competitions, aquatic and STEM events, shooting sports, climbing, sports tournaments and more! Many events are related to various career fields such as Fire Service, Law Enforcement, and EMS.

Participants can also enjoy snow skiing, shopping, and sightseeing in the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee. 
 

Winterfest is open to all currently registered Venturers, Explorers, Sea Scouts, and Scouts BSA of Venturing age (14+ or completed the eighth grade). 

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Members of Baton Rouge EMS Explorer Post 912 attended Winterfest last Jan, 2023.

From the Baton Rouge The Advocate 

They got to showcase what they know as part of a four-member team from Baton Rouge that competed last January (2023) in Winterfest. The Explorers program is an offshoot of the Boy Scouts of America, but members don’t have to be scouts to participate.

Winterfest is an annual competition sponsored by BSA that attracts teams from across the country, going head-to-head in a variety of disciplines. It was the first time in the post’s 40-year history that it competed in Winterfest, and it came away with a second-place trophy in Advanced Trauma Assessment. Short and Calloni plan to return to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where the event returns Feb. 9 to 11.

For the Advanced Trauma competition, the Baton Rouge team was presented with an emergency scenario in which they had 10 minutes to administer care to a patient, in the form of a mannequin, and explain aloud everything they were doing. Shorts recalled that carrying out the scenario was “very nerve-wracking.”

However, Calloni and Shorts say they learned a lot, which is helping them prepare for the next Winterfest.

“This year, we’re training even harder,” Shorts said.

Calloni is currently applying to colleges and plans to major in biological science and later attend medical school. 👍

Shorts said she plans to take a course this summer to become an emergency medical technician and then seek a job with Baton Rouge EMS. She said she’s not sure if she plans to stay in EMS for good or perhaps go to medical school like Calloni.

“I want to, hopefully, run the Explorers program one day,” she said. 👍 👍

More about EMS Explorer Post 912 at source:

https://www.theadvocate.com/louisiana_inspired/teen-ems-explorers-spend-weekends-responding-to-emergencies/article_d888b35e-a4fc-11ee-ab60-d301f3b68ebc.html

 

But she hasn’t forgotten about the Explorers.

Edited January 9 by RememberSchiff