VENTURING
Coed Ages 14-20
Venturing is a youth-led program all about building adventures with your friends. Choose to do activities that matter to you and develop essential skills like leadership, event-planning, organization, communication, and responsibility while having a blast!
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Welcome To Venturing
Everyone has that moment that opens their eyes to a bigger world than they ever imagined. It might happen while paddling a quiet lake, bonding with new friends around a beach bonfire, or rising to the challenge of leading an exhausted crew to the edges of adventure. Venturing empowers you to create your own experiences while bringing Scouting values to life through high adventure outdoor activities and challenging real-world projects.
Everyone has that moment that opens their eyes to a bigger world than they ever imagined. It might happen while paddling a quiet lake, bonding with new friends around a beach bonfire, or rising to the challenge of leading an exhausted crew to the edges of adventure. Venturing empowers you to create your own experiences while bringing Scouting values to life through high adventure outdoor activities and challenging real-world projects.
Advancement and Awards
Learn how Venturers progress through the program
The Venturing Program runs under the A-L-P-S model. We use this model to help Venturers grow in adventure, leadership, personal development, and service. You can learn more about advancement and awards below.
There are four ranks in the Venturing program: Venturing, Discovery, Pathfinder, and Summit. We have designed them to work with crews of any specialization, and each rank serves as a benchmark along a Venturer’s journey.
The Venturing specialty awards, while not a part of the core Venturing recognition program, allow Venturers to discover specific areas more in-depth.
We've designed the Venturing program to develop youth participants into experienced leaders.
View our most frequently asked questions.
Leadership Resources
Questions about the program?
Learn how Venturing stands out from our other programs
In order to be a good advocate for the Venturing program, it is essential to know the correct program terminology like “crews” and organizational structure. The name of the program is Venturing, a unit is called a Venturing Crew, and a youth in the program is called a Venturer.