Young Orienteers Challenge

Calling all budding young adventurers to take up the

Young Orienteers Challenge.

Do you enjoy the outdoors?

Do you enjoy treasure hunts?

Then orienteering and this challenge are for you!

Participation Badges

Compete three events (alone, with your folks or with a friend) and you will get a certificate and an EMIT Buddy badge. Do five events and you can choose to colour the Buddy a different colour. If you manage to do six events, the Buddy will be gold. It doesn’t matter if you mispunch, so long as you finish and remember to get your card stamped. Certificates are handed out after your third event. Badges are awarded at the last event. There are Participation Badges for both the Short and Colour-Coded Series.

Skills Quest

Once you’ve done a few events, take up the YOC Skills Quest. The Skills Quest takes you on an adventure of learning how to do orienteering by yourself. It will help you to become a hot shot in getting around a course so you can move up to trickier courses. Soon you will be showing the folks a thing or two. Along the way you will do fun games and be able to earn even more badges to pin on your bright orange YOC cap. More information on Skills Quest…

Young Orienteers range from 3 or 4 and until about the age of 12, by which time they’re competent and confident orienteers. Children can start the six year Skills Quest programme from the ages of five or six (Grade 0).

Parents, orienteering presents an opportunity instill a love of the outdoors in your kids and it puts healthy outdoor exercise back into your family while still maintaining your family commitments. More information for parents…

Come on, get punching!

CONTACT

Tania Wimberley, mwtapa@mweb.co.za, 082 902-6097
or
Leila Venter, glventer@netactive.co.za

The YOC Participation Badge Challenge is made possible thanks to sponsorship from the South African Orienteering Federation.

For reports on the impact of YOC on events since 2009 click here.