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Core Requirements
Do all of the following core requirements.
- First Aid
Complete a standard first aid course plus the American Red
Cross When Help Is Delayed module or
equivalent course.
- Communications
Do (a), (b), or (c).
- Take a communications-related training
class that includes at least 15 hours of training. This could
be a nonrequired course at school such as creative writing,
technical writing, American Sign Language, or film production.
It could also be a commercial course such as speedreading or
effective presentations.
- Actively participate in a
communications-related club or organization for at least three
months. Participate in at least three activities of the
organization where you practice or improve your communications
skills. Examples include Toastmasters, debate clubs, or drama
clubs.
- Read at least two books approved by
your Advisor on a communications subject of interest to you.
Write a report on the important communications principles you
learned and how you think you can apply these principles to
improve your communications.
and do (d), (e), or (f) in connection with
an outdoor skill or area you are interested in. Have your Advisor
approve your plan before you begin.
- Make a formal, oral presentation of at
least 30 minutes to your crew, another crew, a Cub or Boy
Scout group, or another youth group. Include demonstrations,
visual aids, or other techniques that will help you
communicate more effectively.
- Prepare and present an audio/video
presentation at least 15 minutes long to your crew or other
group approved by your Advisor.
- Prepare a written pamphlet, set of
instructions, or description and summary. It should be at
least 1,000 words and provide a complete description of your
chosen subject. Include pictures, charts, and/or diagrams to
better communicate your topic. Have two people, one with
expertise in the area you are presenting and one without
expertise, read and critique your work. Make improvements to
your draft based on their input. If your work is applicable to
your crew, such as a work on caving skills, then share your
work with your crew.
and do (g).
- Make a tabletop display or presentation
for your crew, another crew, a Cub or Boy Scout group, or
another youth group on communications equipment used in the
outdoors with emphasis on how this equipment would help in a
wilderness survival situation.
- Cooking
- Plan a menu and purchase the food for
at least six people for a two night campout with at least
three meals.
- On the campout in (a) above, cook the
three meals using at least two of the following three methods
of cooking: fire/coals, charcoal, stove.
- Demonstrate and explain proper safe
food handling methods for outdoor cooking.
- Demonstrate that you can prepare
backpacking-type trail food using a backpacking style stove.
- Without using any cooking utensils,
prepare a meal with the four basic food groups for three
people.
- Cook an entree, a bread, and a dessert
in a Dutch oven.
- Emergency
Preparedness
(Use Exploring Emergency Management Program Helps, No.
99-243, for resources.)
- Discuss potential disasters and
emergency preparedness with your family and then set up a
family emergency plan.
- Build a family emergency kit.
- Make a tabletop display or presentation
on what you have learned for your crew, another crew, a Cub or
Boy Scout group, or another youth group.
- Land Navigation
- Using a topographical map for your area
or the area you will be navigating in, demonstrate that you
know the following map symbols:
- Index contour
- Vertical control station
- Hard-surface, heavy-duty
road
- Depression
- Railroad, single track
- Ridge
- Power transmission line
- Trail
- Building
- Stream
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- Checked spot elevation
- Hard-surface, medium-duty
road
- Marsh
- Bridge
- Map scale
- Cemetery
- Intermittent stream
- Campsite
- Water well or spring
- Unimproved dirt road
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- Explain contour lines. Be able to tell
the contour interval for your map and be able to show the
difference between a steep and a gentle slope.
- Using a map and compass, navigate an
orienteering course that has at least six legs covering at
least 2.5 miles.
- Learn to use a global positioning
system (GPS) receiver. Demonstrate that you can find a fixed
coordinate at night using a GPS receiver.
- Teach the navigating skills you have
learned in (a) through (d) above to your crew, another crew, a
Cub or Boy Scout group, or another group.
- Leave No Trace
- Recite and explain the principles of Leave
No Trace.
- Participate in three separate
camping/backpacking trips demonstrating that you know and use
Leave No Trace principles.
- Make a tabletop display or presentation
on the Leave No Trace principles and how they affect the
environment and attitude of campers for your crew, another
crew, a Cub or Boy Scout group, or another group.
- Wilderness Survival
(Before you begin wilderness survival, you must have completed
the cooking, land navigation, and first aid core requirements.)
- Write a risk management plan for an
upcoming crew high adventure activity such as a whitewater
canoeing or rockclimbing trip. The plan should include
nutrition, health, first aid, supervision, insurance, safety
rules and regulations, proper equipment, maps and compass,
in-service training, environmental considerations, emergency
and evacuation procedures, and emergency contacts.
- From memory, list the survival
priorities and explain your use of each in a survival
situation.
- Learn about and then make a tabletop
display or presentation for your crew, another crew, a Cub or
Boy Scout group, or another youth group on the following
subjects:
- Emergency signals used in the
outdoors
- Search and rescue patterns
- Evacuation procedures and value of
when to move and when not to move in a wilderness
emergency
- Explain the following environmental
exposure problems. Discuss what causes them, signs and
symptoms, and treatment.
- Hypothermia
- Frostbite
- Sunburn
- Heat exhaustion
- Heat cramps
- Heat stroke
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- Explain dehydration and the
necessity of conserving fluids in a survival situation.
- Explain at least four methods of
obtaining water in the outdoors and demonstrate at least
two ways to purify that water.
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- Demonstrate at least two different
fire lays-one for cooking and one for warmth.
- Learn and discuss the use of fire
starters, tinder, kindling, softwoods, and hardwoods in
fire making.
- Explain and demonstrate how you can
gain knowledge of weather patterns using VHF band radio and
other radios, winds, barometric pressure, air masses and their
movements, clouds, and other indicators.
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- Explain the different rope
materials and thicknesses that are best for wilderness use
and how to care for them.
- Know the use of and demonstrate how
to tie the following knots and lashings:
- Sheet bend
- Fisherman's knot
- Bowline
- Bowline on a bight
- Two half hitches
- Clove hitch
- Timber hitch
- Taut-line hitch
- Square lashing
- Shear lashing
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- Explain the usefulness and
drawbacks of obtaining food in the wilderness, including
things to avoid.
- Prepare and eat at least one meal
with food you have found in the outdoors.
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- Make a list of items you would
include in a wilderness survival kit and then make copies
to hand out to visitors to your wilderness survival
outpost camp.
- Using your list, make a wilderness
survival kit. Explain the use of each item you have
included.
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- Set up a wilderness survival
outpost camp and spend at least two nights and two days in
your site.
- Use and demonstrate several knots
and lashings from requirement (h) in your wilderness
survival campsite demonstration.
- Know how to plan a wilderness
shelter for three different environments and then build a
shelter as part of your wilderness survival campsite
demonstration.
- Have your crew, another crew, a Cub
or Boy Scout group, or another youth group visit you in
your outpost for a presentation you make on wilderness
survival (at least one hour).
- Conservation
- As a Venturer, plan, lead, and carry
out a significant conservation project under the guidance of a
natural resources professional.
- Make a tabletop display or presentation
on your conservation project for your crew, another crew, a
Cub or Boy Scout group, or another youth group.
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