Navigation Games

What is Navigation Games?

A nonprofit organization to promote orienteering in the greater Boston area.

Goal: teach urban youth how to navigate with maps to get them to go outside and explore the vast outdoors.

What is orienteering?

What we did for Navigation Games

Improved our own orienteering skills

Constructed lesson plans

What we did for Navigation Games

Taught children in summer camps

What we did for Navigation Games

Special projects:

Movies

Made orienteering maps

Laid the groundwork to start an inter-school orienteering league in Cambridge and nearby cities

What we did for Navigation Games

Acknowledgments

Teaching consultants: Julia Bishop, Kristin Hall

Map-making teacher: Ed Despard

Coaches: Ethan Childs, Cristina Luis, Melissa Trout, Isabel Bryant

Interscholastic league consultants: Liz McNerney, Alex Jospe, Ed Despard, Melissa Bleakley-Dalton, Bob Forgrave

Support: Marina Carlson, Barb Bryant, Dave Yee, Liz McNerney, Roslyn Shoy, Ric Bayly, Mary Waters, Cambridge Sports Union, New England Orienteering Club, Cambridge Community Schools