Varsity & Venture Training

 This course is based on the Venturing Ranger Award requirements and gives participants an exposure to some outdoor/high adventure activities. Powder Horn is a training opportunity designed to expose the participant to activities and resources necessary to operate a successful High Adventure program and understand the Ranger Award:

• Understand the detailed requirements of the Ranger Award.
• Help Venturing Leaders and Scouters to safely conduct outdoor activities of a fun and challenging nature.
• Provides an introduction to the resources necessary to successfully lead their Venturers/Scouts through a program of high adventure.
• Familiarizes the Advisor with the Ranger program so that he or she can help the Venturer to meet the requirements of the Ranger Award.

The course will include all of the Ranger Core Requirements:
First Aid, Communications, Cooking, Emergency Preparedness, Land Navigation, Leave No Trace, Wilderness Survival, and Conservation, As well as at least 10 Electives from the following list: Backpacking, Cave Exploring, Cycling/Mountain Biking, Ecology, Equestrian, First Aid, Fishing, Hunting, Lifesaver, Mountaineering, Outdoor Living History, Physical Fitness, Plants and Wildlife, Project COPE, Scuba, Shooting Sports, Watercraft, Winter Sports

21^st Century Wood Badge is the premier adult leadership development course for the Boy Scouts of America. Wood Badge teaches contemporary leadership and team-building skills in a comfortable outdoor setting, where learners become members of their own Troop. Wood Badge’s effectiveness as an effective leadership development experience has been applauded by industry training professionals. Its positive influence on graduates’ individual unit-level program is unparalleled.

Wood Badge is, first and foremost, learning by doing.
Participants in the course are formed first into a Pack, bridge over into a Troop, and finally are inducted into a Venturing Crew, just as Scouts move up through the Scouting program. The courses are open to all adult Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity, and Venturing leaders and district and council volunteers that have completed Basic Training for their position and are capable of handling the hectic, physically demanding course schedule.

Nationally famous training professionals and volunteers updated the Wood Badge syllabus in 2001 to provide the best methods to adult Scouters for teaching leadership and delivering program to their youth.

Who:              All Adult Leaders
Link:               Circle10 WoodBadge