Quest
Award Requirements
The Quest Award
In the years since Venturing started, the program has been
defined by the activities Venturers do.
Sports have become a very important activity within crew programs. The
resounding popularity of the Ranger Award for the
outdoor emphasis caused the need to create a similar challenging award
program for Venturing's sports emphasis.
Statistics throughout the United States are showing that
Americans as a nation are overweight and out of shape.
Heart disease and diabetes, diseases which are the results of being
overweight, are rampant.
These diseases, historically found in older people, are now being
found more and more in the youth.
Young Americans are not being encouraged to watch their diets and start
an exercise program.
While working on the Quest Award, Venturers will be required
to learn more about what makes up a nutritional diet as
well as design their own personal exercise plans based upon lifestyle,
fitness levels, and desires for a healthy and long life.
Hopefully this program will introduce Venturers to a sport or
sports that they will enjoy the rest of their life.
As with many other requirements throughout the Venturing program,
Venturers will be required to share what they learn with others.
This sharing may be done through various sports clinics and
presentations with other groups. In the electives section,
Venturers will be required to choose at least one sport in which to
become proficient.
Purpose
- Provide a wide variety of sports-related activities that
encourage the development of the "whole" person.
- Give Venturers the opportunity to pursue a specific sports
interest in a new way that
- may not be available in a traditional Scouting,
educational, or recreational setting.
- Provide Venturers a variety of practical, hands-on sports
experiences while having FUN.
- Promote fitness and sportsmanship
- Learn new sports correctly that Venturers will enjoy the
rest of their life.
- Recognize Venturers for achievement in the sports area.
- Develop highly trained Venturers who may become a training
and leadership sports resource to
- dens, packs, and troops, religious organizations, the
community, schools, sports teams, and families.
Requirements
Five Core Requirements: (Do all)
- Earn the Sports Bronze Award.
- Complete an American Red Cross Sport Safety Training
Course or equivalent.
- Complete the Fitness for Life program.
- Learn and do fitness assessments.
- Sports Disciplines (Choose a sport from a list provide in
the Quest Handbook or another sport approved by your Advisor.)
Electives are: (Do one)
- History and Heritage of Sports
- Sports Nutrition
- Drug-Free Sports
- Communications
- History and Heritage of the Disabled Sports Movement
The Quest Award
An illustration of the Quest medal is pictured on the top of
this page. It features the Vitruvian Man (c. 1492) by
Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci actually drew the figure as he was
influenced by Vitruvius, a Roman engineer
of the first century B.C. It is based on a model of ideal proportions
which Vitruvius established. Like that balanced
man that both Vitruvian and da Vinci modeled, the modern Venturer must
be balanced physically, mentally, nutritionally, and even socially.
The Vitruvian man stands before a red, white, and blue
background. That background reminds us of national pride as our
athletes compete against the world. The medal is suspended from a
ribbon with a solid field of green.
The green represents the sports field as well as the completion of the
journey started with the bronze medal with its half green and half
white ribbon.
Supply Information
- Quest Award Medal, No. 04266
- Quest Award Certificate, No. 33651
- Quest Award Pocket Card, No. 33650
- Quest Handbook, No. 33151