Rank Advancment Requirements
- Long Cruise Patch
- Small Boat Handler
- Qualified Seaman
- Ship Award
- BSA Lifeguard
- Mile Swim
- Snorkeling
- Boardsailing
- Venture Award
- Eagle Scout
- Fitness & Sport
- Religious Emblems
- Other Awards
VENTURE RECOGNITION PROGRAM
Provide a pathway for personal development.
Encourage Venturers to learn, grow, and serve.
Recognize the high level of achievement of Venturers who acquire Venturing Skills.
Identify trained and highly motivated Venturers who will be a training, leadership, and program resource for other Venturers, Scouts, organizations, and the community.
Help define Venturing.
Sea Scouts, being members of the Venturing program, may work towards the Silver Award in addition to the Quartermaster Award. Earning the Venturing Silver Award will identify you as a Venturer who:
Has direction in his/her life
Knows how to plan and accomplish goals
Is Skilled
Lives the Venturing Oath
Is a leader
Is willing to serve others
Is one of the proud few to wear the Venturing Silver Award
Step 1 — The Venturing Bronze Award
The Bronze Award is the first step toward the Venturing Silver Award. Each of the five different Venturing programs (Sports, Religious Life, Arts & Hobbies, Outdoors, and Sea Scouting) has its own Venturing Bronze Award. All five Bronze awards contain the common elements of experience, learning a skill, and sharing your experiences with others. Earning at least one Bronze Award is required for the Venturing Gold Award. The Bronze Award is designed as the entry-level award for Venturers so they can acquire usable skills that will carry them along the trail to the Venturing Silver Award.
To earn the Sea Scout Bronze Award, the Sea Scout must earn the Ordinary rank.
The Bronze Award is a colorful, campaign-style ribbon that may be worn on the Sea Scout or Venturing uniform. If all five are earned, all five may be worn on the uniform. Each ribbon has an icon representing the area in which it was earned superimposed on the ribbon.
Step 2 — The Venturing Gold Award
The Venturing Gold Award program recognizes significant accomplishments in a Venturer's life as he or she has proven outstanding performance in a broad spectrum of activities. These activities relate to leadership, citizenship, social skills and responsibility, outdoors, service, and fitness. It challenges Venturers over an extended period by offering challenging and stimulating opportunities for Venturers to develop and achieve personal goals in the areas of leadership, character development and personal fitness.
Venturing Gold Award candidates must be active and registered Venturers for at least 12 months before final qualification. They must participate in a district, council, or national Venturing activity or event. They must also earn at least one Venturing Bronze Award. They must set and accomplish at least one personal goal related to each of the experience areas. They must plan and lead at least two ship activities built around the experience areas. Three letters of recommendation from adults outside the ship are required, and the candidate must pass a ship bridge of review. Finally, they must be approved by their ship committee.
The award is a gold medal featuring the Venturing logo inside a compass dial. The medal is suspended from a white ribbon worn above the left pocket.
Step 3 — THe Venturing Silver Award
The Venturing Silver Award is available to all Venturing youth members. Its purpose is to provide a pathway for personal development, encourage Venturers to learn, grow, and serve, and recognize a high level of achievement of Venturers who acquire Venturing skills.
Candidates must be proficient in emergency preparedness (including standard first aid, CPR, and Safe Swim Defense), participate in Ethics in Action, complete the Venturing Leadership Skills Course; earn the Venturing Gold Award; and earn at least one of the five Venturing Bronze Awards. Sea Scouts work with their Skippers to establish a plan of action for earning the Silver Award. Sea Scouts can choose to work on the requirements alone or with other Sea Scouts as a ship activity. Sea Scouts can work on requirements for the Bronze Award, Gold Award, Silver Award, and Quartermaster Award simultaneously. They can also work on each program separately. It's up to the Sea Scout and Skipper as to how they earn the award. After completion of all the requirements, the Silver candidate will go through a board of review.
The Venturing Silver Award features an eagle superimposed on a compass dial. It also has a red, white, and blue background behind the eagle. The medal is worn suspended from a green and white ribbon, which is suspended from a silver venturing bar. A cloth knot is also available.