GPS Powered, Team Building
Special Event For
Marshall Middle School
How to Play?
Your team will use GPS
and Pocket PC’s to help
you locate 25 caches
hidden in and around the
Marshall Middle campus.
The cache value is based
on difficulty and distance.
Every cache can be found
by every team in any
order.
What’s a cache?
There are 4 types of caches:
1. Physical
2. Virtual
3. Multi
4. Initiative
A Physical Cache
1. This is a hidden container.
2. Inside will be a first to find card just for your
period. It will have YOUR class period on it.
3. If there is no white Marshall First to Find card,
write down the
word hidden inside
of the cache.
4. Take a creative group
photograph With ALL
your team present.
(mom & dad helper can do this so everyone can
be in the photo!)
5. Rehide the cache exactly as you found it.
A Virtual Cache
1. This will take you to something to just look
at and identify.
There will be no container.
2. Answer the question found in your PocketPC.
3. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Be sure to write the CORRECT answer!
(WRONG ANSWERS WILL NOT RECEIVE CREDIT)
4. Take a creative group photograph.
A Multi Cache
1. A “multi” cache is a cache that you
have to go to multiple locations to
complete.
2. The “waypoints” in the GPS unit will
take you to the first stop.
Once there, you will have to get
additional information that possibly
would requiring you to program data
into your GPS units.
A Multi Cache
3. To learn how to program the GPS unit
with a “way point” see the “GPS in
an Hour” cheat sheet.
4. You ONLY get credit for this cache
when you arrive at the last location
of the “multi”and get the first to find
card or the secret word.
5. Be sure to take a group photo at the
final location
An “Initiative”
1. These are caches that require
“action”.
2. It may be measuring something, or
playing something, or communicating
“something” via the walkie talkies to
get other teams to meet you
somewhere!
3. You get credit for these caches when
you complete the “initiative” and have
your score sheet signed by the parent
helper. Be sure they record your
points!
4. Be sure to take a creative group photo
here too!
Your Goals
INDIVIDUAL TEAM
GOAL:
Bring back the most
points from the
course.
Creative Goal:
An award will be given
to the team with the
most creative
photograph(s).
Most Important:
Class Goals
• As a team, you are competing for
the most points, but as a class
EVERY cache needs to be found.
• We want every cache found by at
least one team in each class
• Any class that successfully does
find all the caches gets rewarded
by every student getting 25 extra
credit points!
Geoteaming Rules
1. You must stay
together as a group.
2. No Running!
3. Photo verify your
cache find at the final
location with
all members of your
team (other than the
photographer).
Geoteaming Rules
4. Follow
all school
rules!
No running, or yelling,
and stay together!
5.
Be On Time!!
Return on time or
lose 50% of your
total points earned!
Technology Training
Digital Camera
1. Power
2. Auto
4. Shutter
3. Camera
Pocket PCs
1. Power
In case of Emergency:
Phone #’s
2. Go To Course
3. Scroll Up/Down
Pocket PCs
Pocket PC Clue Example
You are given a photo clue.
____________________ This is 10 ft from the
cache.
1. Tells you the cache
number
2. Tells you the points:
900: 1st to find
600: everyone else
3. Tells you what type of
cache it is. In this
MMS001
900/600 Physical
case it is a:
___________________
PHYSICAL cache.
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GPS Receiver
Waypoint Name
Distance
*kl=kilometers
*m=meters
Direction
The compass in an Etrex is an “active”
compass.
To Mark A Waypoint
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Go to Menu Screen
Hi-Light Mark
Press Enter
Note the name of the
waypoint
Hi-light OK and press
Enter
At the Waypoint screen,
press Enter
Select the Waypoint tab
0-9 and press Enter
Select the waypoint
number you wish to use
and press Enter
Press Enter at the review
Waypoint screen with
GOTO hi-lighted
Demo Cache
Let’s move outside to the lunch court of
Building A to demonstrate how this all works.
Turn off all equipment! Take the team backpacks
Aerial Map