Grade 7 and 8 students geocaching at Frost Campus
Grade 7 and 8 students will visit Fleming College’s Frost Campus to take part in a series of geocaching competitions, which provide experiential learning opportunities in the environmental and natural resource sciences.The 145 students from Ridgewood Public School in Coboconk and Millbrook Cavan Public School will visit Frost Campus in three separate groups on Thursday, November 22, Thursday, November 29 and Thursday, December 6. The geocaching competitions will start at 10 a.m. on each of those days.The students, working in teams of five, will start from the Frost Campus Biocommons and visit five geocaching sites on campus. The students must collect samples and participate in activities at each site to complete the competition.Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or other navigational techniques to find hidden containers called geocaches.