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👇Click below to see what happened next...! 👇 Thank You For Joining Us! A HUGE thank you to everyone who joined us at our first Shark-O at Richard McKinnon State Park and Paul Revere Park over in East Cambridge. Your presence and participation made for a great night. A few highlights: 🌊🌇🦈 The weather was windy and perfect. That ocean breeze may have rustled a checkpoint or two, but it didn't stop you all from dodging sharks like pros and proving that teamwork and maps a

Thanks to generous support from the City of Cambridge, we've been able to offer free, family-friendly public orienteering events throughout the City of Cambridge that bring hundreds of people together to explore local parks, solve challenges, and have fun outdoors.

For years, our orienteering curriculum lived in a smattering of documents, websites, and the heads of the people who taught it. Now we've built a public, searchable curriculum site that brings together our school lesson plans, camp programs, and activity library in one place, and we wanted you to be among the first to see it. Take a look! What's there Structured lesson plans for schools. Sequenced progressions for grades K-2, 3-5, and 6+, each aligned to SHAPE America PE stan

Navigation Games is currently looking for our next orienteer-in-residence! Learn more about the program and apply today!

By Barb Bryant, Navigation Games Founder and President Orienteering offers a unique blend of physical activity, navigation skills, and outdoor adventure. Yet growing youth participation remains challenging for many national organizations. Recently, I spoke with Pete Swanson from Orienteering New Zealand (ONZ) about their newly minted school strategy and Navigation Games' work building school orienteering. Pete Swanson has been involved with ONZ for several years, including s

Introduce navigation education and orienteering to your program!

Celebrating a wonderful year and a decade of Navigation Games.

This Giving Tuesday, YOU can spark discovery, confidence, and adventure in schools by supporting Navigation Games! Orienteering turns the outdoors into a giant puzzle. It builds problem-solving skills, teamwork, resilience, and joy as kids learn to navigate. And the best part? It can be taught in every school. Working with schools is our primary focus. Every child goes to school, and by working with schools, we can reach the most children. In 2025, Navigation Games: Empowere

More than 240 participants at Navigation Games' Vampire-O, 2025!

Start the Revere's Crossing Event at Long Wharf (pictured) or North Point Park, Cambridge Ready to combine history, geography, physical education, and problem-solving into one unforgettable experience? As educators, we're always looking for ways to make learning come alive for our students. What if I told you there's an event happening right in Boston that lets you literally follow in Paul Revere's footsteps while mastering navigation skills that could transform your classr

Ten years ago today, on June 3rd, 2015, something amazing officially began.

Jesse Tubb, an Army veteran and adventure racer, uses navigation activities to coach life skills I met Jesse Tubb at a recent...

By Keegan Harkavy In sixth grade, I had a life-changing experience. For the first time in my life, I held a map and was told to find my...

Orienteers and workshop presenters Emilee Vizenor and Bridget Hall with a map of a camping conference venue in Wisconsin Navigation Games...

What an incredible evening! Our inaugural Leprechaun-Orienteering event at Fresh Pond Reservation was a massive success, drawing 124...

Navigation Games is currently looking for our next orienteer-in-residence! Learn more about the program and apply today!

We are excited to announce that Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) student Min-Jae Kuo has been selected to the prestigious US...

Image 1: Left- Navigation Games program manager, Mikayla Moss, helps participants check their times and accuracy. Right- Orienteering team member, Betsy Dicke, explains orienteering activities to elementary school students. On a Tuesday evening this January, close to 200 girls between the grades of Kindergarten and 5th grade and their families filled the gym of the War Memorial Recreation Center in Cambridge, MA. “Girls in Sports Night” was dedicated to exposing Cambridge

Learn about the adaptive orienteering for the visually impaired being done at Camp Abilities in Delaware, New Jersey and Arizona!

Navigation Games has hit the news cycle once again, this time in the Cambridge Day. Authored by one of our fantastic friends and volunteers, Andy Zucker, this article shines a light on the variety, and importance of our work at Navigation Games. Give it a read and find out the many ways we can all benefit from orienteering. Reminder that now through the end of December, all donations to Navigation Games will be DOUBLED up to $20,000 by a motivated donor, so please, consider d