Venture Quest Award Information
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Venture Quest Award Information |
The Venturing Division is offering the most challenging, far-reaching sports and fitness award in the Boy Scouts of Americas history—the Quest Award.
Quest sports and fitness award requirements include:
Earning the Venturing Sports Bronze Award
Completing the American Red Cross Sport Safety Training course
Completing either the Human Kinetics Fitness for Life program or a fitness improvement option found in the Quest Handbook
Conducting physical assessments using the Human Kinetics Fitnessgram test administration found in the Quest Handbook
Learning to play a nontraditional sport
Completing one of the following electives: The History and Heritage of Sports, Sports Nutrition, Drug-Free Sports, Communications, and History and Heritage of the Disabled Sports Movement
Making presentations, called sports clinics, to Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts
The award, on the same level as the Ranger Award, was developed with the assistance of nationally known organizations such as the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research, Human Kinetics, the United States Anti-Doping Agency, and the United States Olympic Committee.
Cub Scouts are the primary target for Venturers working on Quest, according to the Venturing Division. Venturers can have a great impact on the health of young America by starting with Cub Scouts. Picture the surprise on a Cub master's face when he or she gets a call from a Venturer who offers to lead a sports clinic. The adults don't have to do all the work and a Cub Scout will likely respond better to a 16- or 17-year-old. Its definitely a win, win deal.
Through the sports clinics, Venturers will be able to offer physical assessments and speak about good nutrition, proper exercise techniques, anti-doping issues, and sports in general. Additionally, they will offer specific sports clinics, such as fencing, by working directly with national governing bodies, such as U.S. Fencing.