Help Wanted 10/29 (South Carolina)

[+jon & miki]

A while back the SCGA was contacted regarding starting a geocaching-based team building exercise for the summer camps that the Palmetto Health Cancer Center runs for kids in South Carolina.

 

Palmetto Health runs several camps for kids and families. Camp Kemo is one, it's a week-long camp for kids with cancer or their siblings. Camp New Horizons is a weekend camp for kids who have lost a sibling to help them handle bereavement. There are several other camps, but I don't know much about those yet.

 

The trial run of geocaching as a camp activity will be happening on the morning of Saturday, October 29th at Camp New Horizons near Batesburg/Leesville. If the exercise works well, geocaching activities will be included as part of the other camp's activities.

 

There will be 6 groups in all making cache runs this time, so I'm hoping to have 6 geocachers to provide tech support to the counsellors with each group - you know, making sure the kids are pointing at the right cache, changing batteries, stuff like that. We've provided some training to the camp counsellors already, but they will still will need some support until they get some real-world experience.

 

I know many of the readers of this forum are located too far away from the camp to help, but I thought I'd ask here anyway. We've already got 3 geocachers helping out for sure so far, but I'm looking for 3 more so assistance can be close at hand for each group if there are any problems. If you can spare the morning to help out, please email me and I'll fill you in on the rest of the details.

 

Thanks

Jon

[+jon & miki]

Sorry, looked at the wrong calendar or something. Saturday, October 28th is the date of the geocaching activity. I don't see any way to correct the title - can the moderator do it?