Project Adventure Welcomes Back the Cambridge School of Weston

The Cambridge School of Weston has been bringing students to the Challenge Course at Moraine Farm since 2005.

The faculty of this school originally came to Project Adventure for a staff development day, and had a great program. The teachers immediately saw the connection for student learning based upon their experience.

The culture of the school is one of emphasis on the individual’s strengths and talents. Because of this, one of the goals was to help students reach out to students they might not usually interact with, and to learn the positive side of working as a community.

At the end of the first program, the teachers felt very hopeful that PA would have a positive influence on their school community. Based on their history with PA and the excitement with which students look forward to the program, it appears their goals are being met.

To learn how your school, agency or group can benefit from an adventure program - call 978-524-4554 today or email... info@pa.org

Scituate High School and Project Adventure - Getting Kids Motivated About Moving

"We are going with more life long skills than team sports type things" is the quote by Greg Rainer, Health and Wellness Chair at Scituate High School in Scituate, MA. As part of a tax override vote, the school has been able to replace a climbing wall that had been installed by novices with a professionally installed Project Adventure Climbing Wall.

In an article by Brian Nanos of the Wicked Local Website, PA Installer and Challenge Course Inspection Coordinator Alex Kramer is pictured providing an orientation to Rainer of the new climbing wall. In September, Physical Educators and other staff will receive training from Project Adventure on the appropriate use of the elements.

Assistant Superintendent, Jim Kelleher refers to the PA climbing wall and training as tools for continued improvement of curriculum in the district.

Interested in installing a climbing wall in your school or agency? Contact PA today! 978-524-4554 or info@pa.org.

Setting Students Up for High School Success - Using Project Adventure Activities

Goal setting, diversity, conflict resolution and team building....,

200 high school students from the Mansfield Public Schools, including 60 incoming freshman, spend two days out of their summer setting themselves up for success by attending the Annual Leadership Summit.

Activities include not only PA activities with problem-solving on the challenge course, but also writing "goal letters" to identify what they want to strive for and achieve during their high school years.

Share the tools you use for goal setting and achievement with students!
Or contact PA to get some great ideas. 978-524-4558. info@pa.org

To see the full article, click here.

Challenge Course Management

Reflects by Angel Krimm, PA trainer and former challenge course program manager.

Over the course of the past 3 years, I have seen a dramatic increase in the attendance at the Adventure Program Management workshop. Perhaps it is due to field staff becoming seasoned professionals, or due to the awareness that program managers need to know more that just how to perform technical maneuvers on the challenge course.

The workshop held at Moraine Farm this July was no exception - with 12 participants spanning experience levels of brand new to over 20 years in the Challenge Course industry, and representing just about every client base we serve - PE departments at schools, therapeutic agencies, a camp and conference center, and a military training program.

Together we explored topics of risk management, including staff hiring and retention, medical forms and liability releases, intentional programming (yes, the intentionality that an organization puts towards their program does impact safety!), new regulations and industry standards,and understanding Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and how to write Local Operating Procedures (LOPs) among other topics such as marketing and grant support of programs.

Most of PA's trainings are extremely active and experiential...an immersion approach to learning. And although this workshop differs by being content heavy, we kept it light with a few games to aid in the learning. We are experiential educators after all!

The overall consensus throughout and at the end of the workshop is that the information is valuable (though somewhat overwhelming), and participants have a clear sense of the next steps for their organization. Some head home with the intention of getting that Local Operating Procedure manual finished, while others were thinking of ways to get the word out in the community about the great work they are doing. And for one client, regulations really got him thinking as he discovered his home state is considering adopting regulations for zip wires.

The book used extensively through out this workshop is the book that we refer to internally as "Bob's Book"... The Guide for Challenge Course Operations, by Bob Ryan.

If your Challenge Course staff is wishing to pursue ACCT's Challenge Course Manager certification, this workshop, in addition to the related field hours and additional training, and having obtained Practitioner Certification Level II will get them there.

October 24-26, 2008, Covington, GA

January 22-24, 2009, Beverly, MA

March 6-8, 2009, Covington, GA

July 13-15, 2009, Beverly, MA

October 23-25, 2009, Covington, GA

Developing Respectful Communities in Schools and Agencies - NYC

Join Project Adventure's Metro New York City Advisory Board and The Children's Aid Society on October 2 at Alley Pond Adventure for a day of learning, sharing and experiencing!

Who should attend: Administrators, program directors, curriculum coordinators, educators, counselors and anyone who strives to support positive development of children and youth.

What to expect: Opening remarks of welcome from Dr. Irving Hamer, NYC Advisory Board and C. Warren "Pete" Moses, CEO of The Children's Aid Society.

Keynote address by Jane Panicucci, Vice President of PA and lead creator of PA's model for enhancing school culture and climate and PA's Coordinated School Health approach for increasing social and emotional competency, physical activity and health-related fitness.

A variety of concurrent sessions by greater NYC professionals who utilize the researched methodology and core components of PA's programming in their own environments to engage children and youth, help them move past their perceived limitations and enhance program outcomes.

Networking lunch and resource filled bookstore.

Demonstration and opportunity to participate on Alley Pond's state-of-art challenge course designed and installed by Project Adventure. The challenge course is one of many tools that can be used in a solid adventure education program.

Registration is limited to the 100. Preregistration is required.

Questions? 1-800-468-8898 x4638 or info@pa.org!

Harvard Principals' Center Summer Institute at Project Adventure

World-wide school leadership!

For the past 10 years, over 200 principals and principal candidates from across the world come to Project Adventure's headquarters to kick off their 7-day intensive experience. This year's first session of 150 participants joined us on July 1 to explore - The Art of Leadership.

Maurie, Principal of Opotiki College, a secondary school in Okpotki, New Zealand shares his reflections on his blog.

"Today we were up at 5.45 to get to the bus by 7.00 for the drive out to Project Adventure. We didn't get away until 8.30!!!! but what a great day. We worked in our discussion groups, got to know each other much better. The highlight was completing the high ropes activity with my partner Silvio who has led a remarkable life. It was awesome, also, to see other group members either completing the high ropes or assisting others to do so. Our facilitator there, Angel, did a great job and we now know a lot more about each other".

Maurie's site is full of great photos and more reflections! Enjoy.

Jamaica High School visits Alley Pond Park

Jamaica High School students and staff spent a great day at the Alley Pond in Queens, NY. According to an article posted on NewsBlaze.com, Jamaica educator Rosemarie Slaymaker learned about the adventure program and challenge course, created by Project Adventure, Inc. for New York City Urban Park Rangers, while walking her dog in Alley Pond Park.

You can read about their day and see great photos. Also learn about how Jamaica High School looks forward to implementing Project Adventure programming in their Physical Education programs in the Fall.

If you'd like to learn more about the Alley Pond Park project, Project Adventure programming or how PA works with schools and agencies to create Respectful Communities, contact us at bwonson@pa.org or http://www.pa.org/.

And, for schools, agencies and community-based programs in the greater NYC area, SAVE THE DATE, Oct. 2 for a Creating Respectful Communities intro day at Alley Pond Park.

Cayuga Nature Center recovers from theft of challenge course equipement

The Cayuga Nature Center in Ithaca NY was victimized by theft of challenge course equipment this winter. Losing approximately $8,000 worth of rope and supplies, the Center is hosting a fundraising open-house this weekend, June 14-15, to raise funds to replace lost items.

For more information or directions, go to www.cayuganaturecenter.org

Jessica Steele, director of the center's TEAM Challenge has received her challenge course training in both Technical Skills Intensive and Advanced Skills and Standards through Project Adventure.

Save the Date - Alley Pond Park, Queens NY - One Day Event

Creating Respectful Communities in Schools, Community Based Organizations and Agencies
Co-sponsored by Project Adventure, Inc. and PA's Metro New York City Advisory Board
When: October 2, 2008
Where: Alley Pond Park and Adventure Center, Queens, NY
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Who should attend: Anyone who works with children and youth, and/or manages a school, program or agency and will benefit from tools, strategies and researched practices for building social and emotional skills with the populations they serve.

Fee: $ 75 per person or $225 for 4 from same school or agency (includes lunch)
To indicate your interest or ask questions, email bwonson@pa.org or call 800-468-8898 x4619.
Registration materials will be available in July.

Twirlies

Just like flying a PA Twirlie, implementing a successful adventure program takes:

Clear guidance, some instructions and advice.
A solid plan.
Competence – both in your staff and your vendor.
Taking off with confidence and zeal!

Any of you who have tried to fly a PA Twirlie know that you can just jump in and give it a try...using a trial and error approach. Or you can follow the instructional arrows and/or seek advice from those who've been successful before ...and take your Twirlie flying to next level in no time at all.

The same is true for implementing adventure into your program. Through the guidance and direction of Jane Panicucci, PA has moved from an organization that installs great challenge courses and trains people how to use them...to an organization that is dedicated to building quality, research based Adventure Programs. Programs that include:

• Curriculum aligned with state and national standards.



• Learning outcomes and objectives.



• Assessment tools.



• Coordinated approach toward PE, Fitness and Health education.

We encourage you to go beyond a challenge course or adventure prop (ie Twirlie) as a single isolated activity - to a meaningful and relevant program that is aligned with standards, achieves desired outcomes and can be evaluated and measured.

Twirlie Bull's-Eye (Estimated time: 30 minutes) Problem-solving and Goal-setting

Setup: Explain this task before handing out the twirlies, or you have lost the class for quite some time while they frivolously twirl away! Warn students about potential eye injuries and ask them to not twirl into the face of classmates. For the Bull's-eye activity you will need one or two targets (depending on class size) and a large boundary circle around the targets (boundary ropes work well). Experiment with the size of the outside boundary.

Framing: Explain that the class will be given a series of special practice activities, which will lead up to a final all-class goal.

Procedure:

1. Say to students, "The next few activities are warmups for a final goal-setting activity that you will be given. First, try and play 'twirlie catch' with a partner. See how many double catches the two of you can make - where you each catch your partner's twirly at the same time!" (This is a great opportunity for students to coach each other. Suggest this if it is not naturally occurring.)

2. Now say, "In foursomes, play a creative round of "twirlie golf." Pick targets that you all agree on, and count the number of strokes it takes you to reach the target."

3. When these warmups have been completed successfully, lead students into the final goal-setting activity. Ask them to stand around the boundary line. The class must agree upon the number of twirlies that they will successfully land in the bull's-eye. Emphasize that they have data to draw from - they know how they did during the practice rounds! The class should set their first goal prior to starting the activity.

4. Subsequent rounds should be held in order for the class to have opportunities to adjust their goal and to continue to improve their results.

Discussion:

Ask students:

• Did the class reach its goal?



• Was the goal realistic? Too hard? Too easy?



• How did you set the goal? What information did you use?



• What behaviors do you want the class to keep for the next goal-setting activity? What behaviors do you want to avoid?

This activity can be found on page 86 of the Adventure Curriculum for Physical Education - Middle School. Twirlies are available through Project Adventure and also come in the Middle School PE Pack Kit.

Year round adventure with Seabrook Middle School

Four years ago, Seabrook Middle School installed a low elements course in the woods on school grounds. Our challenge was to incorporate an adventure curriculum into the traditional curriculum offered in the physical education program. We began by introducing Full Value Contracts for students to identify and own behavior as responsible classmates. We post these contracts with names and handprints on the wall of the gym. Sometimes they are used as reminders during the school year.

We spend 4 weeks in the woods every fall working on cooperative challenges like the TP Shuffle, Whale Watch, Mohawk Walk, Nitro Crossing, and visiting island countries using the Nitro Crossing set up, or playing a strange game of basketball with rubber chickens, lizards, swing ropes and buckets. We ladder our curriculum by offering different challenges for different grade levels on the same elements. In this way, we are able to introduce elements and keep them fresh at the same time. We alternate our curriculum in the fall with lifetime sports like golf and field games like flag football. When weather sends us indoors we play cooperative games like Mat Ball and Castle Ball and participate in cooperative challenges such as the Human Knot or use Stepping Stones.

Our winter curriculum focuses on fitness using lifetime activities and stations, a traverse wall, and indoor game units like Table Tennis, Volleyball, and Basketball.

By the time spring rolls around, students (and PE teachers) are anxious to get outdoors again and play field games or head to the woods. We have found that students come back to the woods with a desire and earnestness to be successful in the challenges. The MultiVine, Wild Woosey, Tire Swing and Spider’s Web are big hits in the spring. Students are ready and willing to take on the responsibility of keeping their classmates safe and attaining a group goal. There are always struggles with middle school students: maturity and responsibility. But we see the excitement and pleasure that challenges bring to most students. The opportunity to guide students in appropriate ways to be leaders keeps us coming back to the elements year after year.

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Cindy Shoer is a Middle School PE teacher at Seabrook Middle School in Seabrook NH. Cindy has presented on the use of the core concepts of PA and alignment with standards for PE at PA's Practitioner's Seminars.

Old Bridge High School, New Jersey Flies With PA

Cheryl Mackey, PE Teacher at Old Bridge wrote to tell us what a great experience she had in her training with PA trainer Bill Klag. When we asked her to say more, she told us:

"My Project Adventure expierence has been awesome. Our school, Old Bridge High School, was awarded the Carol White Pep Grant. " PA built both the indoor and outdoor challenge courses at Old Bridge. Carol says, "We have both an indoor course and an amazing outdoor course. My collegues and I signed up for the Adventure Programming and had a blast. We met so many new people and made some good friends. The sequencing of the activities permitted myself and other individuals to challenge ourselves at a comfortable pace. Even though I am petrified of heights I was able to do almost all the high elements because I had faith in my belay team. I was able to step outside my comfort zone and expierence an amazing rush. As of right now at least 4 of my co-workers, including myself are working towards getting our Masters degree in Adventure Learning/Project Adventure".

"I am currently teaching both an indoor class and an outdoor class of Project Adventure. Our curriculum requires that the sophomores take Project Adventure indoors, while the juniors and seniors can take the outdoor course as an elective for Phys. Ed. The kids love the program and its a great feeling to watch them open up, grow and challenge themselves more and more as the year goes on. Project Adventure has helped my sophomore class become the amazing Phys. Ed. class I knew they could be".

In speaking about some of the less engaged student's in P.E., Cheryl talks with excitement about taking this group on next year. And "getting them to like P.E more by giving them the opportunity to experience Project Adventure. We also just started a Project Adventure club, which I am 1 of 4 advisors".

We look forward to hearing from Cheryl and from her Project Adventure Club attendees about how the year progresses!

Project Adventure - Adventure Stimulus Package!

Stimulate your academic content Stimulate Social and Emotional skill development!

Stimulate your group counseling sessions!

Stimulate your thinking about managing your challenge course!

Project Adventure is offering excellent savings on some of our best workshops! Register one person and get a second tuition free! This is a great way to maximize professional development dollars at the end of the budget year...while preparing folks for a great start to the season or new year!

For registration info and details- contact lmcgrath@pa.org or call 800-468-8898 x4638

Adventure Programming
June 11-14 Beverly MA
July 7-10 Beverly MA
July 8-11 Stockton CA
July 14-17 Flemington NJ

Adventure Based Counseling
July 8-11 Hummelstown PA

"This course was amazing. Our trainer was very knowledgeable, encouraging, and insightful. She made this course better (than I expected)." Participant in ABC workshop, May 2008

Engaging Activities for Social and Emotional Learning
June 17-18 Stockton CA

Portable Adventure
June 19-21 Stockton CA
July 22-24 Hummelstown PA

"This workshop provided me with several tools to meet my program's needs of developing confidence and trust through teambuilding." Workshop participant, May 2008)

Advanced Skills and Standards
June 23-26 Beverly MA

Technical Skills Intensive
July 16-18 Hummelstown PA

Adventure with Youth at Risk Institute – Intro to Behavior Management through Adventure
July 7-13 Covington GA

Adventure in the Classroom
July 14-17 Covington GA

Adventure with Youth at Risk – Intro to Behavior Management through Adventure
July 14-17 Hummelstown PA
July 23-25 Beverly MA

Adventure Program Management – Critical Knowledge for the Challenge Course Manager
July 14-16 Beverly MA

For a full list of all workshop offerings, go to www.pa.org/workshops


Trainings at your site Project Adventure is the leader in facility-based adventure training and professional development. Call 978-524-4554 or email info@pa.org for more info!

What can fifth graders learn from Project Adventure Programs?

“If we don’t work together we won’t accomplish what our goal is,” said Austin

Megan, 11, said, “You’ve always got to give it a try. It’s important to believe you can do it.”

Jenna, 10, said she loved learning about teamwork. “It’s awesome.”

Christopher, also 10, said he enjoyed the program. “We made new friends from Bungay,” he said of the program designed to introduce students who are from different schools but will all be merging for their sixth grade year.

Facilitator Suzanna Collinson was the lead trainer.

Full story from the View From the Valley Blog which is part of the New Haven Register.

Using Project Adventure methodology and programming has been a key component of transition programs for over 25 years. Bill Bates, former Director of PE, Health and Athletics at the Cambridge Public Schools in Cambridge MA and now a PA consultant created a highly successful transition program for students moving up from middle school to high school.

Students who participate in teambuilding activities at the end of their last year of elementary school or middle school with students from other feeder schools become more engaged, less nervous, feel a sense of belonging. To make the experience even more valuable, educators who the students will be working with at their new school should be equal participants.

What does your school or district do for a transition program? What works well? Do you believe it positively impacts student success?

Swampscott Middle School Holds Project Adventure Photo Contest

According to Wicked Local - a website with news from the Swampscott MA Reporter, Jan Rushton, the teacher for Swampscott Middle School's Project Adventure class has found a new way to add to the PA curriculum experience.

Student's were asked to depict "adventure" in a photo. The photos could be of a student, by a student or by someone else but capturing the essence and meaning of adventure.

Photos of rock climbing, challenge courses, surfing and one that was more conceptual included a match igniting.

Rushton and her colleagues have completed Project Adventure trainings both at our Moraine Farm setting and customized professional development at their school Swampscott Public School installed challenge course elements as part of their capital project while doing a school renovation project.

What unique ways do you bring additional technology and tools into your Project Adventure programming? We'd love to hear about them.

Adventure Camp Programs for Youth at Moraine Farm

Looking for a program where your child will:
- Increase their self-confidence?
- Move beyond their perceived limitations?
- Learn communication skills and goal setting skills?
- Be outside, active and have fun?

Project Adventure's PLAY programs are exactly what you are looking for!

Programs are lead by Project Adventure's expert facilitators and include cooperative and problem solving activities, low and high challenge course experiences.

For more info call 978-524-4500 or email info@pa.org or register on line. Space is limited.

All programs are held in Beverly MA on beautiful Moraine Farm.

Programs for Youth at Moraine Farm in 2008 Spring
Ages 5-7, Vacation PLAY, April 22nd
Ages 8-12, Family PLAY, May 3rd
Ages 12 & up, Family PLAY, May 17th & June 7th
Summer
Rising 5th-6th graders, Summer PLAY Camp, July 14-18 & July 21-25
Rising 7th-8th graders, Summer PLAY Camp, July 28- August 1

Camp Harbor View Project, Boston MA

The drive out to Camp Harbor View is, in itself, a great adventure – crossing an aging 3,000 ft. steel bridge called the Long Island Viaduct, passing by Our Lady of Hope Chapel, and winding down a long wooded road to an island rich with history and home to a wondrous new initiative by the Camp Harbor View Foundation established in 2007 – Camp Harbor View.

The idea for the camp emerged from a conversation between Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino and philanthropist and Boys and Girls Club of Boston Senior Advisory Board member Jack Connors. Mayor Menino expressed his concern to Jack about the growing violence among teenagers in Boston’s neighborhoods, especially in the summer when school was out. Teenagers needed a place to go, to be supported, nurtured, and to interact with positive role models. Within a few months, Camp Harbor View became a reality and welcomed its first group of 300 11-14 year old campers on July 2, 2007.

However, before the first camper stepped foot on the beautiful state-of-the-art campus, the camp would need to be built and the staff trained. That’s where Project Adventure (including me) came into the picture. The camp was constructed in only 109 days including a magnificent Project Adventure Challenge Course complete with a breathtaking backdrop of the Boston skyline. The course’s gigantic Helix Tower would be the first thing new campers would see as their bus rounded the corner and they descended upon the beautiful open campus. Imagine their curiosity!

Adventure is an important component of camp life, helping students to develop crucial skills for coping with the daily reality of living in at-risk neighborhoods and to rise up as community leaders for positive change. The challenge course will provide opportunities for campers to practice taking healthy risks, placing trust in themselves and others and experiencing the strength and power of community. More than 600 students each summer will have the opportunity to challenge themselves, going beyond what they ever thought they could do and achieving the unbelievable. Imagine a teenager perched on a utility pole 40 ft. off the ground. She trembles as she looks within to find the power to confront her fear and trust others for the support and encouragement to go for it. With one last look at the group below, she jumps through the air and for a moment, flies above the world. Now, imagine that same teenager and others who share experiences like this confronting their lives, back in the city, facing similar fears and uncertainties but now having the skills to build support, trust themselves, rely on their community and fly above the world, above violence. Imagine that.

Camp Harbor View Slide Show

By Ryan McCormick, PA Trainer, New Activity Guru and all around great guy!

Adventure helps prepare students for Guatemala

Ms Bowman of Prospect Hill Academy writes:

"Well - it was a good time at Project Adventure on Wednesday. We played and laughed a lot, talked a lot about what’s going to make us a good traveling team, and got to try some new things we had never tried before. I’d say climbing a giant rope ladder thirty feet in the air was new for all. To watch the teamwork was amazing. It was also cool to see how much better the groups got at the climbing challenge as we went along because they were all learning so much from watching the other groups. In the end when Marc and Eddie and Jessica stood at the very top - the only group to make it all the way up all together - it felt like an accomplishment for all of us, not just for those three.
A great start to this adventure …"
- Ms B

When I asked Ms B if I could use her quote she said, "We really had a great time with a group of HS kids about to go on a three week trip to Guatemala. It was just what they needed a month before their departure. "

thanks Ms. B!

Project Adventure Workshops - May 2008

May is a great time to get some training...at one of our sites...or your's.

Project Adventure's Moraine Farm training site in Beverly MA (20 miles north of Boston). PA acquired Moraine Farm in the mid 1990's through the generosity and vision of Mimi and George Batchelder. The property, over 77 acres of Fredrick Law Olmsted design property, Moraine Farm in May is bursting with azalea and rhodendrum blooms, the beginnings of organic vegetable farming and the return of the birds to historic Wenham Lake.

The Moraine Farm training site offers lodging in double rooms with shared bath and meals on site. The veranda, overlooking Wenham Lake offers a great place to relax and connect with other participants in the evenings.

During the wedding season, Moraine Farm is booked to capacity by couples who love the history and beauty. A large white tent is often in place on the beautiful span of lawn overlooking the tea house.

Participants will also see "programming in action" as Moraine Farm serves thousands of groups annually through our Youth and College Programs division. A cadre of facilitators trained specifically to incorporate challenge, risk taking, and social emotional skill development into program design provide an emotionally and physically safe environment for peak, life changing moments.

The state of art challenge course features high and low elements including PA test elements and new innovations.

The Project Adventure Kids Campus in Covington GA (30 miles East of Atlanta) is another great spot to take a PA training. This campus is the headquarters for our direct service programs with youth through the Georgia Juvenile Justice programs, Youth and Family Services and public schools. Started in the 1980's but site director Cindy Simpson, Project Adventure Kids has remained an innovated, research-based practice for restraint free programming that empowers the toughest and most damaged children and youth to make long-term sustainable change for a better future.

You can also book your Youth and College Program at the Covington Site. This site also boasts a state of the art challenge course and is the host site to hundreds of programs annually.

Other workshop sites offered in May include Ithaca, NY (Cornell Outdoor Adventures) and Suffern NY (Suffern Middle School).

And of course, if you have six or more people at your site or in your area who would benefit from a PA training, we can come to you. PA facilitators are the best in the world, bringing a combination of real life work experience and intensive adventure and experiential expertise to you and your staff. Participants are wowed by their skill and depth of knowledge. Even the most resistant participant on your team is engaged through the skillfulness of the facilitator and the power of the methodology.

Project Adventure professional development is not only for schools, agencies and camps, but also for corporations and non-profit administration. Join the ranks of companies as large as Microsoft, Starbucks, BMW and Kodak or as small as the local restaurant or Chamber of Commerce who have participated in PA team development programs. A mixture of methodology is available and programs are customized to your specific needs. Select from inventories such as DiSC Personal Profile System and the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model, team based initiatives and problem-solving activities or the high and low challenge course...or a combination.

Participants have called Project Adventure workshops, "the most meaningful and relevant professional development program I've participated in" and "Not often enough do I walk away from something and think, WOW, what a great experience! I did with the Adventure Programming workshop."

Hope to see YOU soon!

For more information or assistance in planning a workshop that is right for you and your team, contact us at info@pa.org or 1-800-468-8898.

"I like Aqua Fresh and Colgate"

You can bet that the person who said this was a participant in Lisa Faulkingham Hunt's Adventure Innovations workshop at the National AHPERD Conference in Fort Worth last week.

Brian Hagbo of Ellensburg High School in Ellensburg, Washington sent these comments following the workshop, "You put on a great session at Fort Worth and the weather was beautiful. I have already used "Quick Line Up" and added the Pump House and Heart House. After you gave me the No Props book, I went straight to the booth and got the "Achieving Fitness" book. Having the PA Course in our Auxiliary gym, these are great activities for my advanced lifetime physical education classes.
Thanks again for putting together an outstanding session".

Thank you to Brian and all the great participants. Tell us about a great PA session or workshop you attended! And what activities you are using at your school, camp or agency.