Elon University, Elon, NC -- Feb 2025
Presenters: Barb Bryant, David Waller
Outdoor Navigation Games
(90 min) We'll start with a presentation about orienteering and a progression of games to develop orienteering skills. Then we will go outdoors for a team "Score-O" to find checkpoints on a campus map. You'll develop a plan for bringing orienteering to your program.
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA -- Feb 2025
Presenters: Barb Bryant, Diana Aleksieva
Orienteering in adventure education: building skills for map navigation and teamwork
Killington, VT -- March 20-21, 2025
Presenters: Maija Pratt, Ken Walker
Univ of WI - River Falls - March 20-21, 2025
Presenters: Barb Bryant, Emilee Vizenor, Bridget Hall
NG staff only: planning; maps
Better orienteering for camps
60-75 minutes
We’ll talk about setting up classic point-to-point and “Score-O” style orienteering courses, and how to get an excellent orienteering map of your camp. We will share a progressive series of navigation games for kids starting as young as five years old, that lay the groundwork for orienteering. We will try out these games on the University campus and set you up for a rich and successful orienteering thread in your programs.
Tin Mountain Conservation Center, Albany NH, March 24, 2025, 1:30-2:30
Conference Link
Presenter: Maija Pratt, Jim Arsenault
NG staff only: planning; maps
Orienteering in Your Space
Orienteering is a physically active experience that develops map navigation skills and can be implemented in any space, from an urban park, to a school playground, to a national forest. In our workshop, we will orienteer in teams around the Nature Center grounds, and play a progression of navigation skill-building exercises that demonstrate the adaptability of orienteering and the endless opportunities these activities present to explore unfamiliar and familiar spaces in a new way. Participants will engage in the activities, then discuss what skills they used and how to apply and adapt these activities to work with their programs.
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4-H, Williamsburg, VA -- March 28-30, 2025
Presenters: Barb Bryant, Erkan Sezgin
NG staff only: planning; maps
Map Navigation Games
Orienteering is a physically active experience that develops map navigation skills. In collaboration with school teachers, Navigation Games has created orienteering-based curricula for kids. In this workshop, you will navigate outdoors in teams, reflect on your experience, and adapt the activities to work with your programs’ spaces and communities. We will share our materials and activities. You will leave with information about all the resources you need to implement orienteering in your programs.
Map - link coming soon!
Marlboro, VT -- April 2025
Presenter: Ethan Childs
NG staff only: planning; maps
Better Orienteering for Experiential Education
Map - Coming Soon
Potash Hill (new map)
Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma, CA -- May 2025
Presenters: Erin Schirm, Julia Doubson
NG staff only: planning; maps
Orienteering to develop a sense of place and navigation skills
Orienteering is a physically active learning experience that develops life navigation skills. Through orienteering activities, students observe and experience the environment, develop spatial reasoning, practice critical thinking, work together, and gain confidence at navigating in both familiar and new places. In this workshop we will tell you about the sport of orienteering and how you can implement a progression of navigation games. We will go outdoors for a team orienteering activity. You will try some introductory navigation games and learn everything you need to bring orienteering into your program. Come dressed for the weather!
Map (TBD)
Orienteering in PE
Presented online by Barb; translations by Abdulrahman Ismael from IOF
Worcester, MA -- November 2025
Presenters: Mikayla Moss, Maija Pratt
NG staff only: OP; planning; maps
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Nov 2025
Presenters: Mikayla Moss, Maija Pratt
NG staff only: OP; planning; maps
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Map
Hoover, AL -- Nov 16-18, 2025
Presenters: Barbara Bryant, ___
NG staff only: planning; maps
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