Northern Illinois Venturing Activities Committee
The Northern Illinois Venturing Activities Committee (NIVAC) is made up of adults & youth in councils of the Central region Area 3 and the metro councils in & around the area marked loosely by Rockford, IL to the West, Janesville, WI to the North, Chicago, IL to the East and Joliet to the South. The NIVAC mission is to create annual Venturing events for the Northern Illinois section of Area 3 in the Central Region. The purpose of the section activities is to serve, promote and advance Venturing in Northern Illinois via leadership, adventure, service, training and fun. The activities will be local so that they are accessible physically and financially to the Crews in the Northern Illinois section.
Any Venturer or Advisor in NWSC (or the other surrounding councils) who is interested in working on the NIVAC committee or would like more information on the Christmas Tree Ship event (below), please contact Debbie Keyes at 847-991-3205 or look for links on http://venturing.nwsc.org
WINTER - Chrismas Tree Ship - December 3, 2005
Hundreds of Venturers and Sea Scouts will unload up to 1,500 Christmas Trees that will be shipped on the USCGC Mackinaw for charitable distribution to children of disadvantaged families. A party/dance/social will be held afterwards for the Venturing volunteers. The event will take place on December 3, 2005 at Navy Pier, which will be alive with carolers and shanty singers commemorating this joyous holiday. This will be the Northern Illinois Venturing Activities Committee's inaugural event and will serve as a service & social event as well as a kickoff to the 2006 NIVAC events.
RSVP: - each crew MUST let us know how many to expect (names not req'd.) .
CONTACT: Len Coutre lcoutre@ameritech.net
FLYER:
http://venturing.nwsc.org/forms/christmastreeship.doc
URL: Read more about it at http://www.christmasship.com/,
but let Len or Deb know how many you are bringing to volunteer!
SPRING - Venturing Leadership Skills Course &
Lord Baden Powell University - March 17-19, 2006
For Venturers - Venturing Leadership Skills Course
Camp Lakota - Woodstock, IL
For Venturers - Learn about Vision, Communication, Organization and Synergism
VLSC is required for the SILVER award and recommeded for KODIAK treks.
A MINIMUM of 28 Venturers are required to be registered by March 1 to hold the course!
HOST: NWSC & NEIC Council
COST: $30.00 per person
CONTACT: NWSC - E MAIL: nwsc-venturing
or James & Kathy - TEL: 847-546-1782 - E MAIL: inthecourt@sbcglobal.net
FORM: http://venturing.nwsc.org/forms/VLSC2006.pdf
For Adults - Lord Baden Powell University - Lake Geneva, WI
URL: http://www.lbpuniv.org/
SUMMER - Outdoors Wisconsin Leadership Synergies (OWLS)
In the School of Experiential Leadership at the George Williams Campus of Aurora University - one of the leading providers of adventure education in the Midwest. Achieve personal and team growth in areas such as leadership, communication, conflict resolution, creativity, trust-building, and problem solving.
QUALITY LEADERSHIP is one of the most important aspects of Venturing. The NIVAC program will be lead by their full-time, professional staff.
ACTIVITIES combined with skill development, reflection, interpretation and application create the ideal conditions for learning, personal growth, and team building. It is through this interactive approach to learning that adventure education can provide metaphors for life experiences.
The OWLS program will involve you...Intellectually, Socially, Emotionally, Physically, Completely ...creating the ideal conditions for learning.
CONTACT: Louise Glon antiquerocks@yahoo.com - Phone: (815)389-9763
FALL - Illini Jamboree - September 15-17, 2006
Illini Jamboree - Rantoul, IL
Illini Football Game, Interactive Games, Demos, Entertainment - special events for Venturers
COST: $xx per person
URL: http://www.prairielandsbsa.org/
CONTACT: Susan Coller scoller@bsamail.org - Phone: 217-356-7291
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See the NWSC Activities page for more activities.
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