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Ships that earn a Force Health and Wellness Unit Award are authorized to paint a green "H" on their stacks or elsewhere to display evidence of the honor. For each subsequent consecutive competition won, the ship paints an angled line, or hashmark, below the green "H". After five consecutive awards, a green star is painted above the "H".
The original award was a medal suspended from a green ribbon with the universal emblem superimposed over a "V", representing the five years of service requirement. In 1948, the award was renamed Scouter's Award and the period of service was changed from five years to three years. The emblem was then changed from a "V" to the current design of ...
The Silver Award was the highest award in the Venturing program of the Boy Scouts of America from 1998 through 2014. It required Venturers to first earn one of five Bronze Awards, earn the Gold Award, have one year's tenure in a crew, and fulfill requirements relating to emergency preparedness, leadership skills, and ethics-in-action. [ 7 ]
In 1948, the award was renamed the Scouter's Key Award and the tenure requirement was changed from five years of service to three years. The award could now be earned by Cubmasters, Scoutmasters, Senior Scout Advisors and commissioners. The Skipper's Key, created in 1939, was discontinued in 1948 and replaced with the Scouter's Key.
The requirements are the most challenging award requirements in the Boy Scouts of America and it's not uncommon for this award to take a year or longer to achieve. Compared to Eagle Scout, an Eagle Scout must earn the first aid merit badge, by becoming certified in standard first aid.
After his death in 1937, the award was renamed in Dr. Hornaday's honor and became a Boy Scouts of America award. In 1975, the present awards program was established with funding help from DuPont, with the Bronze and Silver Medals being created for youth, and a separate Gold Medal for adult Scouters created as well.
The Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards, created in 1998, [1] which honor Latina/o high school students (organized into regions or "markets") who demonstrate leadership potential and support them as they move through college and into graduate school and/or the workplace, especially in the STEM fields and in the "Green Industry". As of 2013, the ...
[1] It was considered a "prestigious" award among children's products, [2] and had been described by the Cincinnati Enquirer as the industry equivalent of an Academy Award. [3] The Parents' Choice Awards were established in 1978 by Diana Huss Green, who was then the president of the Parents' Choice Foundation.