Craig and All, I too am interested in the Corps but ask and pose the same questions as Craig has.If we want the corps to grow with Venturing and offically...
Charles, I agree. When I sent an email a while back requesting thoughts and did not get any, I put the project on hold. Soon, I plan to get back to a COD web...
Charles, The reason there is no structure for CoD is that it is a very, very new and immature program. We are completely open to suggestions, ideas,...
The Central Region has had great success we think in using facebook to make information sharing among the youth in Venturing around the region a reality. I...
I believe that discussion is great but for the COD, there is not a great deal of discussion that goes on. By adding another discussion location, I wonder if...
Craig and Yahoo Corps of discovery list Dear Friends, I am a member of 2 or 3 Facebook lists but I am NOT comfortable with any one of these lists. Facebook may...
Bill Wilcox
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Jan 2, 2008 9:16 pm
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There has been a lot of discussion, recently, on expanding Venturing Corps of Discovery to an official National Venturing Honor Society. I suggest the...
Bill Wilcox
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Jan 9, 2008 2:36 pm
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That sounds like a great idea. We probably should start with a discussion about what it would take to get national recognition. When I approached Bill...
... Venturing Corps of Discovery to an official National Venturing Honor Society. ... purpose of the "Advanced Party" will be to lay ground work for taking the...
Michael, A very good point about OA. It took almost 50 years for the variety of honor societies to become the National Order of the Arrow. Those independent...
... variety of ... Camps, where ... to run ... Well, this is why people need to understand the history of how the various 'scout honor societies' developed....
Agree on all points. The comment about CoD and the Kodiak Treks is simply an explanation of how we got it started here. Let's put some structure to this...
I think that most people support the idea of something like COD; or maybe they just don't care enough to dislike the idea. But it will remain an idea, until...
Dear Friends, Once again a idea is presented to the membership of this list and in-stead of directly addressing the issue(suggestion) of establishing an...
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Jan 11, 2008 10:55 pm
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Wouldnt it be a benefit to leave the loosness part of it in the program??One only has to look at the looseness of the whole Venturing program to see it would...
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Bill, I don't know who was the originator of the Corps of Discovery. The original pilot program was tested in 1999 in suburban Chicago by Tom Petrik and his ...
Thats more like it!!All Ive read never gave me enough specifics to attempt implementing it.But without enough Kodiak courses and its cost it would take a long...
I agree with Charles. Joe, what you wrote gives us a good place to start. You seem to have an active program that is building membership in COD, and what your...
In a message dated 1/11/2008 6:05:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, cseltenright@... writes: Wouldn't it be a benefit to leave the looseness part of it in...
I really like this set of criteria. I WAS thinking along the lines of requiring a VLSC, but had never thought about grade point averages or community service...
In general I am staying in the background of this discussion. We have been trying to implement to CoD in our young crew as well and follow the sparse...
Karl, I had the same thought. Keeping pitching in your ideas. I am very, very pleased that we have gotten this conversation rolling. Joe Garrett ... From:...
In a message dated 1/12/2008 11:47:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, snojo@... writes: I would like to incorporate Kodiak and Kodiak-X into this somehow,...
That is a GREAT suggestion. so you can be elected to the Corps with just a VLSC, but to become permanent party, you have to complete Kodiak. I Like it!! Joe...
As a word of explanation, the permanent party of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was only members of the regular army. That included Captains Lewis, Clark,...
... Who said anything about getting rid of the 'looseness part of the program'? Part of the problem I see with the CoD concept is that the concept is so poorly...
... to say, a ... seriously the ... mean ... Venturing ... a "pay ... nominate ... Party ... inducted. ... an Honor ... that is ... take a ... My comments. The...
<snip> ... </snip> In the Kodiak X syllabus, the course is defined to be: 1. As always-FUN. 2. Relevant to the participant's life. 3. Internalized by...
