Training Log Archive: barb

Keegan! I'm still just so happy about Keegan doing the Billygoat. Also, his parents did the Pygmy.

This morning I did some more transplanting, of tomatoes and peppers.

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I thought you might enjoy reading the responses from the survey of the students and staff, from our 2-day 9th grade orienteering introduction last week.

Navigation Gamer Keegan, age 14, beat Phil, Ed, J-J, Yevgeni, Dave - so many people! I'm so impressed.

Hung 80 controls for a high school orienteering outing, Day 2 of working with 60 9th grade girls. Ethan and Zakwani also were there. Ethan is of course wonderful. I really enjoy getting to partner with him on these things. His teaching is really good. He is proactive about figuring out all the stuff we need, which makes a big difference when I'm getting tired the night before and struggling to make sure we have all the things.
One of our teens, Alex, also helped last night to get ready, doing a bunch of laminating and cutting and stapling to make the "team" controls and the punch cards.

It was a success - the girls were enthusiastic orienteers.

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Ethan, Zakwani and I spent the day teaching 60 9th grade girls how to orienteer.

Activities:

1. Presentation, describing all the activities
   
2. Poison Score-O
   
3. Four skill stations: (N) orienting (and keeping oriented) the map, (E) distance estimation, (S) bearing and attack point, (W) map symbols and communication location verbally in case of emergency
   
4. Lunch
   
5. Planning session in teams for which controls they will visit tomorrow, in what order, and how they will work together as a team (4 students per team)
   
6. White and Yellow courses at Edmands Park
   

It all worked beautifully.
Tomorrow morning, I will hang 62 controls by 9am. Hoping to start around 5.

People are awesome.
Really awesome people: Cristina Luis, Ethan Childs, Alex Rosenberg, and the NCDS teachers.

Great meeting just now with Ethan and a teacher at the new middle school we are working with for WOD. I am SO EXCITED!
Looks like we can do an afterschool club there too, in the fall. NEED MONEY, NEED COACHES.