Bingo

It was a Bingo framing!

Teams have to complete tasks as simple as making the instructor laugh (BIG JOKE) to finding checkpoints (blue box) or even landmarks (black circle). We also tried including some environment in like picking up trash & spotting the flora & fauna. Also heritage via the checkpoints. (refer to picture attached)

This were the rules:

- teams need a minimum of 1 bingo to head back to campsite

- the most number of bingo wins

- teams have to head back to base by 3.30pm, for every 10 mins that the group is late, a random task (selected by dice throwing) will be taken out

- the star in the middle of the bingo will only be revealed at 12pm, at the discretion of the instructor for the activity. (on the instructor’s end, we tied down that this star could be anything that the instructor think the group needed i.e. a team game, additional cp etc... but to be fair, it should take 30 mins of their expedition time)

- each team will have a fate card & a wild card, this card can only be played if they pass the cards to the other watch’s instructor. cards can only be played one at a time, if a team wishes to pass two of the cards to the same team there would be a need for a 15 min interval.

The wild cards:

- Forced deal: swapping the task between each team

- Sly deal: taking a task from the other team

- Deal breaker: making another team’s task invalid

- Just say no: you know it

To make things a little bit more exciting, the prizes for winning were for any instructor from the mobile to scrub...

1st place: a wok and a pot + 1 egg from the 3 other teams (tesh scrubbed this for my pax 😂)

2nd place: a wok (i scrubbed this for hakim’s pax)

3rd place: a pot (hakim scrubbed this for yuqian’s pax)

4th place: nothing (yuqian was the true winner 🙊)

We met all participants from C2A at 7am to share the framing with them, started with a small energiser before revealing the task. And to flag off the teams must complete a rock toss challenge (toss once to the left and toss once to the right)... once completed they have to collect their maps (checkpoints and landmarks marked by instructor), bingo sheet & also to choose a fate card and draw a wild card.

Met the whole mobile again at 5pm for celebration dinner & revealing of the results. Based on the responses & sharings from the pax, i think they enjoyed the framing as much as we enjoyed planning it.

Some things that we would have done differently:

- to finalise the packing of bags first. because we initially said all to meet by 7am, if their bags are not packed properly then it would be a disadvantage. then we later realised that all teams needed at least another 20-30 mins for packing, and it killed all the hype that we brought up. so it would have been better to give an extension to finalise the packing so that the moment they complete their rock toss, they can focus on planning where they’d be going & keep the hype/adrenaline going.

- enforce that either a wild card or a fate card to be used. because teams were all feeling nice “i help u u help me la, lets not sabo each other”

- include more environment in & trash picking up to be a plastic bag worth instead of 7 trash only

Things we thought that was good:

- “Conduct your own traffic light debrief” making them do a process debrief for their land expedition instead of the typical instructor conducting the debriefs for them.

- Not telling them how a rubber seed/hornbill look like to ignite their curiosity by asking passer by.

At the end of the day, i’d like to quote checkpoint 73 (german girl shrine) “the best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas”

Even though the 4 of us arrived campsite at 1pm, it was only at 6pm after sparring ideas/things that we’ve done before that we all agreed to do this framing. And the planning that was done only at night after sending our pax to sleep.

It hit me that the idea of this framing wasn’t the most original, yet it was unique in its own ways. As mentioned from the start, the initial ideas were from different instructors on the ground. Yet only by talking/sparing ideas did my mobile decide to put this all together and made it happen.

So by sharing this framing, just hope that more people would post interesting framings that they’ve tried, whether if it was a success or a failure, whether if its big or small. That could add on to the pool of ideas that all instructors could tap on to just like my mobile did this week.

With that... Just to side track a little, learnt from Tesh about how to throw random challenges in because it was too easy a sea expedition (with tide no wind beaching up at 1pm with the following challenges thrown to them)

Challenge 1: to turn 360 degrees in their kayaks within 1 min (test of sweep strokes)

Challenge 2: to back paddle around 100m (test of the efficiency of strokes)

Challenge 3: for all pax to stand up in their kayaks (pax later shared at night that this was one of the most challenging things in their expedition)

Challenge 4: to beach up to jelutong only using hands instead of paddles

(Maybe we can start hearing sea expedition framings too 😀)

Thank you for reading if you made it till this point 🙂

Teshil's comments: Just to add on, those were some of our consideration when designing the activity

🔹Gamification

Based on the gamification article posted earlier for the games gone good session, we tried to include elements of beginner's luck, prize, surprise event within the bingo.

🔹 Course objective

We were focusing on environmental education and heritage trail. As mentioned by abi in her post, it was not enough touchpoint to bring a deeper learning. Instructor was also allowed to have flexibility with their watch learning through the star box

🔹Facilitation technique

Included an easy to understand traffic light debrief. Pax found it intuitive, useful and able to conduct it on their own. My pax found it useful to apply back in school

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