Overview of the Award Scheme
The Discover programme has an award scheme which provides young people with recognition for their participation in the programme. The award scheme explains how achievement and participation within each area is recognised and how badges are awarded. To gain major awards young people have to be involved in all programme zones.
Compass Badge
There is an introductory award - the Compass Badge awarded during the 1st year in the section. To gain the award a young person has to gain points from the programme. This provides an early opportunity to recognise what a young person has achieved.
Community, Recreation & Skills
There are three badges recognising participation in the Discover Programme; Community, Recreation and Skills. Each badge is gained by accumulating points from each zone (to gain 1 point the young person has to take part in one hour's activity on a chosen topic). There are 4 levels of each of the Community, Recreation and Skills badges, one for each year of the programme. The highest level of each badge will be worn on the armband by the young person. To gain a complete level of badges each year, a young person would have to get 24 points by completing topics within the programme zones (please read the 'awards' section of the Discover Programme Pack fro full details on the awards).
Major Awards
There are also 2 major awards available to young people, the Discovery Badge (awarded from year 2) and President's Badge (awarded from year 4) which also require points to be accumulated from the programme, but have additional elements which will add to the programme offered.
