Workshops on Teaching Orienteering

Welcome!

Welcome to the Navigation Games Conference Workshops page!

For details on specific conferences, including slide decks and maps, use the navigation menu or the links on the right. For our main Navigation Games website, click here.

Contact Us

We're happy to meet with any youth-serving organization to talk about how to bring orienteering into your programs.

Email us directly or through our website. 

Get an Orienteering Map Made

• Get a map made through OUSA's Youth Mapping Program

Navigation Games

• Order our kit - Teaching supplies for a progression of games to develop map navigation skills

• Navigation Games Lesson Plans

• Navigation Games website

• For additional materials, contact us:

  • PDFs of kit materials for you to print and laminate yourself

  • Language from successful grants to municipal education foundations for orienteering curriculum development, materials and teacher training

General Orienteering information

• Find your nearest Orienteering Club here

• National orienteering events and Orienteering USA website

• Information about coaching (OUSA) including the national coaching certification program

• International Orienteering Federation

• List of major and local orienteering events

• Rich Parker's "Introduction to Orienteering"

Deliver a Workshop about Orienteering

We are seeking orienteers and others to spread the word to educators. If you are willing to present at a conference, Navigation Games will help you get started! We will provide:

• Assistance identifying nearby conferences and applying to present a workshop

• Detailed activity plan, slide deck, and list of materials

• Coordination with OUSA for a map of the venue and reimbursement of conference fees

• Outreach to the venue to deliver future orienteering events and activities on the conference map

For more information, see the page about delivering workshops.