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SCIDOM 2005

Sunday Evening Activities - Incident Hike

10 bases, 20 different activities. Points for accuracy rather than speed. Who will be the winning tent?

Base

Activities – First Circuit

Activities – Second Circuit

A

Retrieve a Ball from a Bucket

A tennis ball, a bucket of water – can they get them out without using their hands?

Water Race with holes

2 buckets, a length of tube with holes. How much water can they move only using the tube?

B

Compass Bearings

There are 5 compass bearings to take.

Sit Harness

4 Scouts – 4 sit harnesses, 4 blindfolds. Easy?

C

Tie Clove Hitch

Can they tie a clove hitch around a broom stick, which is inside a 2 metre exclusion circle?

Square lashings

Can they tie a lash 2 broom sticks together?

D

Code Breaking.

A4 laminated sheet with 5 simple questions that need solving. Teams write down 5 one word answers.

Semaphore

A4 laminated sheet with a 10 letter sequence. Represented by Semaphore Pictures.

E

Press ups

How many press ups can be done in three minutes?

Ballista’s

2 bases earlier they practised lashings; But can the finish the Ballista to fire the weapon into the target?

F

Map Signs

5 map signs on a laminated sheet.

French Questions

5 questions written in French, teams answer in English!

G

Recovery Position

Can they all get in the recovery position?

Each Scout will need to complete both roles.

Triangular Bandage

Can they correct use a triangular bandage to support a broken arm?

H

French Football Badges

5 badges of French Football teams that need identifying signs on a laminated sheet.

French Rivers

An A4 laminated sheet with an outline map of France with 5 Rivers shown (including the Dordogne)

I

Jigsaws

3 jigsaws to build. 1 is a map, one is a photo and 1 is a boat.

1st RAD Bomb Diffuse

Can they diffuse the Bomb without detonating it?

J

Towers of Hanoi

How high a tower can they build?

3 Cream Cracker Challenge

Can they eat 3 cream crackers without drinking?

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04 March 2006