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Activity Help
Introduction
Winter Camp has as long history of strange activities. In the early years of planning, we would hold marathon brainstorming sessions at the planning meeting which resulted in a lot of strange ideas. We keep them on the list just so we don't have them proposed every year.
A few years ago, the activities database got an update to store more info about each activity as it was suggested, partly to discourage truly goofy activities and partly because we sometimes had an idea and forgot what it meant later when it seemed like it might be fun to try.
The advent of the website and the progress made in personal computers made databases a reality and now Winter Camp has a database of over 1,000 ideas, about 250 of which we've actually used.
Activity Name
Pretty straightforward -- this is the name of the activity. Choosing a cool name can help and you can't duplicate an esisting activity.
Names should capitalize each word so "New Activity" not "new activity". Stuff with numbers and words should by hyphenated if the number is the number of the nxt word. So "3-Way" is right, not "3 Way" or "3way".
Example: Quidditch
Describe the Activity
In this one, you're just providing a short description. Not the rules, just sort of a brief description of what we'd do.
Example: This is a terrestial version of Quidditch where players put multipble balls though the goal to earn points.
Duration
Typical duration of the activity. This should include transport time and a few minutes to recover befor the next activity
Skills Emphasized
This identifies which skills one needs to do well at this event. Part of this is an attempt to balance things so there are chances for everyone to shine. Some events will have multiple skills.
- Physical
- The activity is physically demanding. Usually applies to hikes, sports, and anything where being bigger, stronger, nimble or faster might give you an advantage.
- Mental
- This is really about brainpower and knowledge. If you do well in school, this is probably where you'll excel.
- Social
- These activities are related to people-skills.
- Creative
- These activities call on people to be creative. Artistic or musical people usally do well at these.
Category
Category is an attempt to group things together. Part of it is another attempt to make sure we have a variety of activities at camp.