Drake Middle School Geocachers :: GPS Treasure Hunt
Posted by Robert on 07 Oct 2006 at 12:30 pm | Tagged as: Camp ASCCA Family, Day Camps, Education, GPS, Lakefront, Nature, News, Parents, Schools, Video | Printer/Text Reader Friendly Version: Print This Post
GPSstands for:
Global Positioning System: A worldwide radio-navigation system that was developed by the US. Department of Defense. In addition to military purposes it is widely used in marine, terrestrial navigation and location based services. (Source) A GPS device gets the information from orbiting satellites.
The Drake Middle School Lions took to the exercises with high energy. Just watch this video and you’ll see them romping through the woods of Camp ASCCA from Lake Martin’s shoreline to the highest hills.
Students were given a GPS device, trained in how to use and read it, then set out on a search for five caches. This is how you play a new game called geocaching.
Geocaching is an outdoor sport that involves the use of a Global Positioning System (”GPS”) receiver to find a “geocache” (or “cache”) placed anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small, waterproof container containing a logbook and “treasure”. Geocaching is a unique take on an earlier game called Letterboxing in that it uses two recent technologies, the GPS and the Internet. Participants are called geocachers.
Enjoy the video below of three different groups on their geocaching experience. The video is 3:25 and is a 5.6 mb download. You may view it below. The video requires Windows Media Player, or similar player.
