Taughannock District
Baden-Powell Council, BSA
Venturing  and Exploring

















Our Website Has Moved

If you're reading this notice, you have an out-of-date bookmark.

While we have had the TompkinsCortlandScouts.org domain name for many years, we never really had a place to put the website. The domain was actually just an alias for some other website. So, every time you accessed TompkinsCortlandScouts.org, some other address appeared in your browser's address bar - mostly, home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/, which is the space my cable company gave me, but sometimes www.bpmlegal.com, my office website -  and if you bookmarked the site, you wound up bookmarking the actual address, not TompkinsCortlandScouts.org. Worse, htva.net only gave me 20MB of storage space, total, so we were very limited in how much we could post on that site.

Thanks to Mark Travis of Pack 197 and Good News Computing, the Taughannock District Website now has a real home, and oodles of space to live in (one "oodle" = several gigabytes). And, thanks to a suggestion from Oliver Habich of Troop 4, we also have a shorter, easier-to-type domain - TCScouts.org  - two names, the same website.

What this means to you is:

  • Old Bookmarks won't be right: If you have any bookmarks in your browser for any of the pages in the Taughannock District Website, they probably point to the actual site of the old page, not the new site. So, you'll need to...
  • Change your Bookmarks: At least in Firefox or IE, that means right-clicking on the bookmark, click on "Properties" and change the part of the address which says "home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/" or "www.bpmlegal.com" to --www.TCScouts.org-- or --www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org-- (either will work, if you're lazy like me, use the shorter one). The rest of the address remains the same.
    So, "http://home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/announce.htm" becomes --http://www.TCScouts.org/announce.htm --
  • Or, save new bookmarks: If you don't want to edit your old bookmark, you can always follow one of these links http://www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org or http://www.TCScouts.org , find the page you want, and save a new bookmark. 
  • The old website will be taken down after January 1st, and all of the pages will be set to redirect to the new server. So if you don't update your bookmarks now, now you can always follow the forwarding link and save a new bookmark later on.

Click Here to Access the New Web Site

Yrs. in Scouting,
Mike Brown
District Commissioner

 

Venturing

Venturing is a year-round program for young men and women who are 14 through 20 years of age, or 13 and have completed the eighth grade.

Venturing's purpose is to provide positive experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults.

Venturing is based on a unique and dynamic relationship between youth, adult leaders, and organizations in their communities. Local community organizations establish a Venturing crew by matching their people and program resources to the interests of young people in the community. The result is a program of exciting and meaningful activities that helps youth pursue their special interests, grow, develop leadership skills, and become good citizens.

Venturing crews can specialize in a variety of avocation or hobby interests. 

Sea Scouts is a separate program under the Venturing division, with the same membership requirements as Venturing. Sea Scouts is one of the oldest programs in Scouting, dating back to 1912. 

 

Exploring

Exploring, part of the BSA "Learning for Life" division,  is a worksite-based career education program for young men and women who are 14 through 20 years of age, or 13 and have completed the eighth grade. Exploring is based on a unique and dynamic relationship between youth and the organizations in their communities. Local community organizations initiate a specific Explorer Post by matching their people and program resources to the interests of young people in the community. The result is a program of activities that helps youth pursue their special interests, grow, and develop.

 

 

Questions? Send an e-mail to Venturing@TompkinsCortlandScouts.org!

There's a Crew or Post near you!

If you are interested in starting a new Pack, Troop, Post or Crew in your area, please contact the Taughannock District Executive at DE@TompkinsCortlandScouts.org

Crews and Posts in Cortland County

  • Cortland - Crew 94 (Presbyterian Church)
    - Will Newman 756-7102 cnypaintshop@hotmail.com
    Presbyterian Church, Sundays, 6:30

  • Homer - Fire Explorer Post 1205 (Homer Fire Department)
    Steve Hayes 423-7500
    rescue586@yahoo.com
    Homer Fire Station

  • Marathon - Crew 90
    Tamara Garcia 745-9916
    gyankee77@yahoo.com
    Wednesdays at 7pm at the American Legion

Crews and Posts in Tompkins County

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