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Looking Back; Looking Forward
Dear friends of Navigation Games: Thank you for your support and participation! We would like to share our 2020 story with you — and seek...
Barb Bryant
Dec 27, 20202 min read
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Orienteering Provides Youth Employment During the Pandemic of 2020
Written by Ethan Childs This summer, Navigation Games partnered with the City of Cambridge once again as a worksite for the Mayor’s...
Barb Bryant
Aug 31, 20203 min read
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Teaching Kids Orienteering
We have been teaching kids orienteering for years. What are the key lessons that we've learned? Here are some: Keep kids moving. What...
Barb Bryant
Apr 24, 20202 min read
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Research on children and maps
In designing orienteering-based curricula, what can we learn from research that has been done on how kids learn to make and use maps?...
Barb Bryant
Apr 22, 20202 min read
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Comic Strip #2!
We're happy to announce that comic strip #2 has been added to our At-Home Orienteering lessons. In this one, we learn about Feature Tag...
Barb Bryant
Apr 17, 20201 min read
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At-Home Orienteering Games
We are excited to share our at-home orienteering games! When we realized that kids would be home for a while, and PE teachers were...
Barb Bryant
Apr 15, 20201 min read
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We need your support!
By early 2020, we at Navigation Games had completed a strategic planning process and felt ready to enter a period of growth. Our...
Barb Bryant
Apr 14, 20203 min read
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MSYEP Week 1
By Ethan Childs This week was our first week in the Mayor´s Program! Us Mayor´s Program kids were separated into four different groups,...
Barb Bryant
Jul 17, 20191 min read
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2018 Fall Middle School Champs
By Evalin Brautigam On November 8th, 2018, 34 students from five middle schools in Cambridge competed in the 2018 Fall Middle School...
Barb Bryant
Nov 15, 20182 min read
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Canoe-O on The Charles
By Emie Gerard On Tuesday, August 7th, 2018, the MSYEP teens did an activity called: Canoe-O. During the Canoe-O, a number of things...
Barb Bryant
Aug 8, 20182 min read
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Urban Foraging at Christian Herter Park
By Aidan O'Keefe On Tuesday, July 31st, the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program headed to some woods near the Charles River, called...
Barb Bryant
Aug 6, 20182 min read
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MSYEP Update
By Emie Gerard On Mondays, the Mayor's Program kids do workshops to help them teach themselves about the values of orienteering. On...
Barb Bryant
Aug 1, 20181 min read
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CRLS Students Win at Junior Nationals
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students were on the podium for every Interscholastic category at the USA Junior National Orienteering...
Barb Bryant
Apr 30, 20184 min read
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Texas
Feb. 2, 2017—This is the weekend! I’m going to Texas for my second national event. Little did I know what laid ahead… Saturday: The day...
Barb Bryant
Aug 30, 20176 min read
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Summer Orienteering in Full Swing!
By Hersh Kanner The summer of 2017 has begun begun, and a group of 12 high schoolers—some new to the sport and some old—are beginning...
Barb Bryant
Jul 19, 20171 min read
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Magazine Beach Summer Orienteering
This summer, Navigation Games is hosting community events at Magazine Beach every Wednesday. These events are focused on giving children the
Barb Bryant
Jul 13, 20172 min read
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Navigation Games and NEOC Youth Orienteering Series
By Ethan Childs Navigation Games and NEOC are working together to create a series of family-oriented events for orienteers of all levels....
Barb Bryant
Mar 29, 20171 min read
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Today's Lesson
By Zakwani Gibbs Every thursday, Ethan and I work with kids from kindergarten to fourth grade teaching an orienteering-based afterschool...
Barb Bryant
Mar 27, 20171 min read
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Keegan's Advice Column
Dear Keegan Harkavy, I am a orienteer, and I am a runner. Being a runner has it’s pros and cons when orienteering. One of the biggest...
Barb Bryant
Feb 6, 20172 min read
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Review: Boojum Rock
Keegan Harkavy reviews orienteering at Boojum Rock Pros: Close to Boston and other cities Mostly wooded Biggish (about 2.5 km2) Lots of...
Barb Bryant
Feb 2, 20171 min read
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