a) Leadership Training: Company leaders discuss and give examples and exercises in one particular leadership skill each day. Teams and team captains are evaluated throughout the project on their demonstration of these skills. For example, during the team challenges (initiative games like the “climbing wall”) each day, each team evaluates itself; writing on their use of leadership skills in carrying out the exercise. There are also written tests on the principles themselves.

b) Specialty Skills: Two members of each team are assigned to each one of the four specialty areas: Safety & First Aid, Camping Skills, Nature and Navigation, and Cooking Skills. The topics assigned for each training day are listed in the attached schedules. These classes are taught by members of the previous Freshman Class (i.e. “Sophomore’s”) with a syllabus they have studied with project leaders. Safety instructors are trained by Red Cross First Aid instructors. Freshman specialists take quizzes and have written homework each day in their specialty area and have assigned work from two appropriate BSA merit badge booklets that pertain to the specialty. There are oral quizzes for specialists at the checkpoints on training hikes and a final written test at the end of the training weeks. Also, each specialist presents one assigned topic to his team on one of the days assigned to him (at the General Skill sessions, see below).

c) General Skills: Each day the whole company considers a single topic from the Specialist’s curriculum, which is taught to the team by one of their members who is a specialist studying that area. The attached schedule shows the topics whose importance warrants that they be selected for this special consideration by the whole company. In addition an older student assigned to this area prepares hand-outs, posters and additional information. Also, a video may shown to the company at this time.