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.
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