Grammar School News October
International Award Camp 2
The Great Egg Drop
International Award for Youth
Students from the International Award for Youth (D of E) group held a practice camp on the school campus on Wednesday. Throughout the evening they took part in a series of team and trust building exercises from the Great Egg Drop to Survival.
In the Great Egg Drop students are given straws and masking tape from which they have to make a container for an egg. Their finished designs were then dropped from the roof of the nearest building to see if they could successfully protect their cargo. The unlikely parachute contraption shown above actually worked - twice.
In Toxic Waste, students had to transfer a can of 'dangerous material' to a neutralisation bin, without touching it. One team succeeded, the other ... well, just as well our toxic waste was only rice.
In 'Survival' the students had to imagine that they were on a small plane that had crashed in the Canadian Rockies. They ranked the equipment they had with them in order of importance to see if they would survive the ordeal.
We will hold one more practice camp before going to Oman in January for the IA expeditions.
See a gallery of photographs from the camp here.
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