Award Scheme Activities

Citizenship

• Checkout Akoonah Venturers (1st Casey-Berwick) post of learning AUSLAN sign language.
• Attend a local Council Meeting - it can be any Council, not just your own.
  Checkout your Council website and some have Local Council Livestreams here
• Email interstate or overseas Venturers and compare your experiences/stories
• Run a politics-based Q&A program (like the ABC's Q&A). Unit members to do advanced research
• International Night (or a weekend) - contact Scouting friends around Australia (or the World) and invite them to join you on Zoom
• Take a photo of you in your favourite Melbourne location (can be a montage if you can't get there in person) with the global co-ordinates. Open a Zoom session with your Unit and get others to guess the location
• Civil Defence - learn about SES activities (past and present) and have a Unit discussion about its contribution to society
• Talk with your grandparents and ask them to tell you about society during World War II and other significant events in history
• Run a Unit debate - you choose the subject.

Environment

• Live stream a Unit discussion and question session on the Scout Environment Charter 

Expedition

• Start planning for your next expedition and get some online training with Scouts Australia Institute of Training
• Check out the Adventurous Activities /Outdoor Skills module (don't forget to print out your certificate for your Award Scheme folio) - Click here
  First time login? Your Scouts Victoria Membership Number and Date of Birth for your Password
• Run a 'pack your pack' challenge - layout contents and your food supplies. Competition of lightest with essentials, tidiest etc 

Expression

• Explore other Art Galleries/Museums online - National Gallery Victoria - The Louvre, Paris - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam  - MOMA, New York - Guggenheim, Bilbao - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Melbourne Symphony Orchestra online - Click here
• Quarantine Scout Show - make a video of things you get up to during the Term as fun skits, songs, etc and watch it at the end of the term - and possibly send out to the whole Group
• Creative Night - Venturers are given the task of making something creative from anything they find in their house
• Design a Unit T-Shirt night - everyone designs a unit shirt, either individually or using online collaboration tools. Unit votes on which one gets made.
• Music night. Get Unit members to play tunes on their instruments. Don't play an instrument - record from the internet a short tune of your favourite instrument to play to others
• Try your drawing hand at Cartoons with this free workshop
• Create digital music and upload a live screen  of the software’s controls (choice of instruments, rhythms, etc)
• Musical Instrument / Band Session Night - everyone plays a musical item for the unit. Try and put a simple tune together with everyone jamming
• Unit Dance Competition  - create / find a dance and teach it to the Unit, so the unit can Zoom dance to it

First Aid

• Check out the Victorian Scout First Aid Service courses on www.scoutsvictoria.com.au

Ideals  

• Contact your local churches and clergy (many now have websites) and have a talk (perhaps online) about their religion, its history and practices.
• Run a Ideals debate in your Unit - whoever is the Lead needs to moderate the online session
• Run an Ideals based Q&A program (like the ABC's Q&A) - whoever is the Lead needs to moderate the session
• A lot of faiths are running online services - Venturers can watch the live streams, Units could arrange someone to either before or after the service do a web chat to explain what they would see

Initiative

• Upcoming Course are under Courses and Visits tab on the website.

Lifestyle

• Set you targets to cycle anywhere to raise funds for Kids' Cancer (but observe any COVID-19 requirements) in place). 
• Dance Party & Exercise Night - Talk about and demonstrate benefits of different exercises
• Use some spare time out of the house by setting up a cycling program - plan your routes/time, record each ride and times and check out if your fitness improves. 
• Cycling  - Every Street in your 'Hood. A great idea from the Scout Cycling Team. A simple cycling activity for while we are in isolation. Get out on your bike, get to know your neighbourhood. Practice navigation. Contact the Scout Cycling Team as an Examiner.
  E: state.cycling@scoutsvictoria.com.au

Outdoor 

• Orienteering Maps - Checkout the online maps you can use use for orienteeering in the street or the bush.
• Setup a cycling 'hike' over the weekend for yourself with some challenges (even on bike trails)  Record your route, times and distance
  Check out safety/rules and risks, maintenance and keep a log for your report.
• Geocaching - an activity which you can do as an individual. Checkout local caches in your area. Keep a log for your portfolio
• Orienteering - grab your compass and check out some of the permanent routes Orienteering Victoria. Keep yourself safe and within the distance limits and wash your hands before and after.

Pursuits

• Undertake Astronomy using the Star Walk App
• Have a Semaphore Flag Night (those old Scouty tests from the 1960s) - work out a message and send it to different Unit members. Try this over Zoom - it might be easier!   
• Basic Scoutcraft involves knotting, but have you thought of trying exotic knots and sharing them online with the Unit. Obscure Knots
• Create a Rube Goldberg Machine in your home / back yard and video it . Some examples
• Interesting Sailing Knots - learn how to do a monkey’s fist, whippings, and other knots – everyone finds rope they can use for the evening
• 60 Virtual Programming Ideas for your Unit
• Time to checkout your bedroom cupboard for hobbies not started or half finished and complete them. VA Pursuits for VA level is only 10 hours. 

Service

• Set you targets to cycle anywhere to raise funds for Kids' Cancer (but observe any COVID-19 requirements) in place). 
• Your local Joey Mob, Cub  Pack and Scout Troop are now operating in remote mode. Leaders will need lots of help to delivering a variety of programs, so contact them and start your VA or QS Service now.
• Get training in Section techniques and program in advance with the e-Learning Youth Helper modules.
  See on the website Course and Visits> Youth Helper 2021.

Vocations

• Mock interviews  -  Ask your Leaders/Unit Chair to setup with local contacts to conduct online face-to-face interviews with employers
• Resume writing Click here
• Film or livestream information sessions on other vocations requirements.