Explorer Awards
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Awards and Scholarships

AWARDS FOR EXPLORERS:

• Lifesaving or Meritorious Award
• Young American Award (5/$5,000 National Award)
• Congressional Award

Career Achievement Award Program

The Learning for Life Career Achievement Award program allows young people to be recognized for community service and to acquire and be recognized for career proficiency achievement in either arts & humanities, aviation, business, communications, engineering, fire & emergency service, health, law & government, law enforcement, science, skilled trades, social services, or all 12 career clusters. It gives Explorers and student participants distinguished credentials for their resume.

Leadership Award Program

The Leadership Award is given to youth and adults who have given exceptional dedication and leadership to the youth participants in either the Exploring Program.

Law Enforcement Exploring Proficiency Awards

Provides an opportunity for posts and their Explorers to earn recognition in community service, crime prevention, law enforcement service, law enforcement training, firearms training, emergency preparedness, tenure and Explorer of the Year.

Law Enforcement Exploring Community Crime Prevention Award

The International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners provides an annual recognition of Explorer posts that exhibit outstanding support of their communities.

AWARDS FOR ADULT LEADERS AND PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:

William H. Spurgeon, III Award

The William H. Spurgeon, III Award was developed in 1971 in honor of the man who is regarded as the major leader in the development of special interest Exploring. Mr. Spurgeon was a business executive at the Irvine Company in Southern California who personally organized many special interest posts in the 1960's. Mr. Spurgeon served for many years as a member of the National Council Executive Board and National Exploring Committee. His pioneering efforts led to the present contemporary Exploring Program. He devoted much of the late 1960's to promoting Exploring and is particularly remembered as a dynamic speaker for Exploring Impact Plan luncheons across America . Mr. Spurgeon passed away in 1970.

Russell C. Hill Award

The Russell C. Hill Award was established in 1999 to honor Hill's outstanding achievement in the character education field. Russell Chilton Hill was a prominent San Antonio, Texas businessman who spent much of his time and fortune in promoting Character Education based on his "Freedoms Code" which earned him the Freedom Foundation's Honor Medal. Hill made a pledge to fight for public support in the development of character in the youth of our nation. Learning for Life establishes this award to honor Hill's outstanding achievement in the character education field.

Scholarships for Explorers

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR EXPLORERS:

AVIATION EXPLORING:

• Sporty's Pilot Shop Scholarship (Aviation, 2/$1,000)
• Spartan School of Aeronautics (Aviation, 4/$2,000)

FIRE SERVICE EXPLORING:

• IAFCF Scholarship (Fire Service, $500)

LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPLORING:

• National Youth Representative Scholarship
• ATFAR Scholarship (Law Enforcement, $1,000)
• Capt. James J. Regan Scholarship (Law Enforcement, $1,000)
• The National Technical Investigators Association presents (Law Enforcement, 2/ $500)
• DEA Drug Abuse Prevention Service Award (Law Enforcement, $1,000)
• Federal Criminal Investigators' Service Award (Law Enforcement, $500)
• Sheryl A. Horak Memorial Scholarship (Law Enforcement, $1,000)

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SKILLED TRADES EXPLORING:

• AFL-CIO Skill Trades Scholarship (Skill Trades, 2/$1,000)

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For More Information on National Awards and Scholarships contact:

Exploring Program National Office
P.O. Box 152079
Irving , TX 75015-2079
Phone: 972-580-2433
Fax: 972-580-2502

For a breakdown of the awards and scholarships, what they're about, and for downloadable applications, visit www.learningforlife.org/exploring/ and click the "Scholarships" link at left.

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		Exploring is the young-adult program of Learning for Life, a subsidiary program of the Boy Scouts of America. It is a division of the Circle Ten Council, BSA, serving Dallas , Navarro, Henderson , Ellis, Van Zandt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Hunt, Collin, and Grayson Counties in Texas and Bryan County in Oklahoma