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Award The Ranger Award is given by the Boy Scouts of America. The award can be worn on the scout uniform in several ways: Medal, Bar, or knot. For the Boy Scout program within the BSA, see Boy Scouts (Boy Scouts of America). ...
Background and Purpose of the Ranger Award: Outdoor/high Adventure is the largest and fastest growing interest in the Boy Scouts of America. High Adventure and the outdoors have always been of interest to young Americans as well as an important part of the BSA program. because of the attraction of high adventure, the Ranger Award is available to Venturing youth members of the Boy Scouts of America. The purpose of the award is to: encourage Venturers to achieve a high level of outdoor skills proficiency; recognize achievement of this high level of outdoor skills proficiency; provide a path for outdoor/high adventure skills training; establish Rangers as a highly trained leadership resource for crews, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and the community.
The Ranger Award exemplifies a challenging high-level outdoor/high adventure skills advancement program. Once earned, it will identify a Ranger as an elite outdoorsman who is skilled at a variety of outdoor sports and interest, trained in outdoor safety, and ready to lead or assist others in activities. Rangers can be great program asset to Cub Scout Packs and Boy Scout Troops.
Requirements How to Become a Ranger
This is not an easy, quick award to earn. It will take planning, time, initiative, and plenty of hard work. It will probably take you over a year to complete all the requirements, but that too will speak to your determination and staying power, two more attributes of a Ranger.
There are two types of requirements: Core requirements and Electives CORE may refer to: The Congress of Racial Equality in the USA. The Coordinated Online Register of Electors in the United Kingdom. ...
In the core area, you will achieve a high level of proficiency in the areas of:
In addition to the eight core requirements, you must complete at least four of the 18 electives. They are: First aid is a series of simple, life-saving medical techniques that a non-doctor or layman can be trained to perform. ...
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CORE may refer to: The Congress of Racial Equality in the USA. The Coordinated Online Register of Electors in the United Kingdom. ...
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Note: Venturers, who have received the Outdoor Bronze Award, need only complete four of the core requirements and two electives to qualify for the Ranger Award, since they already have completed four core requirements and two electives already. Backpacking is traveling long distances with a backpack. ...
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You may work with outside consultants who have expertise in the area you are working in, such as a scuba dive instructor for the scuba diving requirement or a certified first aid instructor for the first aid requirement. However, you must have these consultants preapproved by your Advisor. Consultants may initial and date your Ranger Guidebook when you have completed the requirement. A consultant is a professional that provides expert advice in a particular domain or area of expertise such as accountancy, information technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance or more esoteric areas of knowledge, for example engineering and scientific specialties such as materials science, instrumentation, avionics, and stress analysis. ...
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Multiple Credit You may receive multiple credit for requirements, such as using an American Red Cross Emergency Response Course for credit in the first aid core requirement and for the first aid and lifesaver electives. The only time you cannot receive multiple credit is when you are required to do a tabletop display or presentation. If a core requirement or elective requires you to do a tabletop display or presentation on a particular subject, then it must be done just on that subject, not two or more at a time. A WWII-era poster encouraged American women to volunteer for the Red Cross as part of the war effort. ...
Past Credit All core requirements and electives require you to do work as a Venturer. As an example, you may have earned the Backpacking merit badge as a Boy Scout, but you must do all that is required in the Ranger backpacking elective as a Venturer. Some core requirements and electives require some type of certification, such as scuba Open Water Diver, Standard First Aid, or BSA Lifeguard. This certification may be used regardless of when you received it as long as the certification is still current. Australian Lifeguard A lifeguard in the most general sense of the word is an emergency service worker, who is a qualified strong swimmer, trained and certified in water rescue, first aid, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and, sometimes the use of automated external defibrillators (AED); who is responsible for overseeing the...
For Leaders Scout Leaders interested in the Ranger award can take the Powder horn training course. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Powder Horn (Boy Scouts of America). ...
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