Venturing Fast Start (PDF)

Venturing Fast Start (Interactive)

This guide is designed to assist the newly recruited Venturing crew Advisor in using the Venturing program planning process to get a crew up and running and off to a successful start. Highlights include program goals, Venturing methods, crew orientation, steps to getting your crew up and running, leadership position responsibilities, and hints for successful crew operations. It also provides information on suggested crew activities, cooperative and problem-solving games, and suggested agendas.

Venturing Crew Officers' Orientation

An online orientation for Venturing Crew Officers click here. 

Venturing Leader Specific Training (No. 33491D)

This training introduces the new adult crew leader to Venturing by providing basic information needed to successfully operate a crew. This information includes the purpose and mission of Venturing, characteristics of Venturer-aged youth, organization and leadership of the crew, and program planning and officer training. VLST is provided several times each year as a component of the District's Annual Training Plan.

Congratulations to Crew Advisor Julian McCoy of Crew 86 who completed VLST in October 2006.

Powder Horn

Powder Horn is a seven-day course (also offered in the weekend variety) on high-adventure resources. It is not a personal development course like Wood Badge or even a skills course. It will let you experience many high-adventure skills, learn where to get the resources to support high-adventure programs, and discover how to offer those programs in such an exciting, out-of-the-box way that teens will keep coming back to meetings and activities. For more information, click here.

Training Courses

The National Venturing Division conducts training courses each year at Philmont Scout Ranch. Click here to see current course offerings.

The National Venturing Division also conducts "Venturing Program Delivery and Administration" courses annually at the Florida Sea Base facilities and at Philmont Scout Ranch. 

Kodiak

A teen leadership development course that:

• Is a week or two weekends long

• Includes experiential learning in a nontraditional setting, not indoors in a classroom

• Is based on nature

• Teaches only five leadership commissions (skills)

• Is extremely fun!

• Includes support materials:

  • Syllabus

  • Pocket medal

  • Certificate

  • Leadership bag tag

  • Wooden bear claws

  For more information, click here.

Kodiak X

A teen leadership development course that:

• Builds on Kodiak

• Is one weekend long

• Is a leadership challenge course

• Adds two additional commissions (skills)

• Can be both indoors and outdoors

• Uses leadership challenge scenarios

• Uses simple, inexpensive props

Kodiak X was introduced at Philmont 2004 and will be piloted spring 2005 and released June 2005.

Video Support

Click here to see a list of videos available to support training.