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End of Year News from Navigation Games

Dear friends of Navigation Games: Thank you for your support and participation! We would like to share our 2021 story with you — and seek...

Project Adventure x Navigation Games Training Swap

Pulling up to the estate where Project Adventure is located in Beverly Mass, I was unsure of what to expect. It was a cold day in March...

Orienteering Mini-Games

Orienteering is an outdoor navigation sport, in which you use a map to find checkpoints in a park or forest. Cambridge public school...

Orienteering Professionals Talk

On January 15th, I joined a meeting of orienteering entrepreneurs to share about our businesses. Jeff Teutsch (https://navigationsports.c...

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...

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...

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...

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?...