GOTA / TDOTI Challenge
Guides on the Air (also known as Thinking Day on the Air) and
Thinking Day on the Internet
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Have you ever wanted to talk with Girl Guides from other areas of Canada? Or
connect with Girl Guides from around the world? Then be a part of this challenge
which links girls and Guiders from all over the world. This challenge has
undergone a facelift and a new badge is available to match the new program.
Look at the Alberta Girl Guide website to get the latest information on this
exciting challenge. To learn what the above Morse code message is, check out
the GOTA / TDOTI challenge!
Guides on the Air Challenge
All Levels
Make contact with Guiding members around the world in at least one of the three
ways listed.
1. During Thinking Day week, try to connect with Guides from other countries
using Ham Radio. The following website
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/hfarchibald/ has all the information needed
to set up contact with a local amateur radio club as well as frequencies to
access Girl Guides in other areas. GOTA from National http://www.barriearc.com/GOTA/GOTA.htm
2. Go on Girl Zone on the National Website and chat with girls in other parts
of Canada
3. Send a Thinking Day card to one of the 4 World Centres wishing them a
Happy Thinking Day. The addresses for them are:
Our Chalet Hohliebeweg 1, 3715 Adelboden, Switzerland
Pax Lodge, Olave Centre, 12c Lyndhurst Road, London, NW3 5PQ,
England
Our Cabana, AP 4-126, Cuernavaca 62431, Morelos, Mexico
Sangam World Centre, Alandi Road, Yerawada, Pune 411 006, India
Sparks/Brownies
Do 2 of the following:
1 Have a member of the local amateur radio club come talk to your group
and try to connect to amateur radio enthusiasts in the area around where
you live. The following website has contact information for amateur radio
persons in your area - http://www.rac.ca/
2 Using the phonetic alphabet (see attachment), learn to spell your name
and to do the Spark or Brownie promise (see attachment)
3 Learn how to spell your name using morse code and to spell out Sparks or
Brownies.
4 Do the attached word search that has words associated with GOTA
5 Learn about more modern forms of communication. For Thinking Day,
have the girls under adult supervision, spread the news by texting,
emailing, twittering or some other form of social networking a quick
Thinking Day greeting.
There is an attached GOTA QSO card that the girls can get when they
communicate with another unit on the airwaves.
More resources are available at http://www.guides-on-the-air.co.uk/, which is the
United Kingdom’s information about Guides on the Air (or Thinking Day on the
Air as it is known in other countries).
Guides/Pathfinders/Rangers
Do 3 of the following:
1. Have a member of the local amateur radio club come talk to your
group and try to connect to amateur radio enthusiasts in the area
around where you live - http://www.rac.ca/
2. Using the phonetic alphabet (see attachment), learn to spell your name
and to do the Promise
3. Using International Morse Code, learn to spell your name and to do the
Promise (see attachment)
4. Using either the phonetic alphabet or morse code, create a message to
have one of your friends decode
5. Do the attached crossword puzzle that has clues related to GOTA
6. Learn about more modern forms of communication. For Thinking Day,
have the girls under adult supervision, spread the news by texting,
emailing, twittering or some other form of social networking a quick
Thinking Day greeting
There is an attached GOTA QSO card that the girls can get when they
communicate with another unit on the airwaves.
More resources are available at http://www.guides-on-the-air.co.uk/, which is the
United Kingdom’s information about Guides on the Air (or Thinking Day on the
Air as it is known in other countries).
Promises in the Phonetic Alphabet
Spark Promise (I Promise to Share and Be a Friend)
India
Papa Romeo Oscar Mike India Sierra Echo
Tango Oscar
Sierra Hotel Alfa Romeo Echo
Alfa November Delta
Bravo Echo Alfa
Foxtrot Romeo India Echo November Delta
Brownie Promise (I Promise to do my best,
To be true to myself, my beliefs and Canada
I will take action for a better world
And respect the Brownie Law)
India
Papa Romeo Oscar Mike India Sierra Echo
Tango Oscar
Delta Oscar
Mike Yankee
Bravo Echo Sierra Tango,
Tango Oscar
Bravo Echo
Tango Romeo Uniform Echo
Tango Oscar
Mike Yankee Seirra Echo Lima Foxtrot, Mike Yankee
Bravo Echo Lima India Echo Foxtrot Sierra
Charlie Alfa November Alfa Delta Alfa.
India
Alfa November Delta
Whiskey Echo Lima Lima
Tango Alfa Kilo Echo
Alfa Charlie Tango India Oscar November
Foxtrot Oscar Romeo
Alfa
Whiskey Oscar Romeo Lima Delta
Bravo Echo Tango Tango Echo Romeo
Alfa November Delta
Romeo Echo Sierra Papa Echo Charlie Tango
Tango Hotel Echo
Bravo Romeo Oscar Whiskey November Echo Romeo
Lima Alfa Whiskey.
Guide Promise (I Promise to do my best,
To be true to myself, my beliefs and Canada
I will take action for a better world
And respect the Guide Law)
India
Papa Romeo Oscar Mike India Sierra Echo
Tango Oscar
Delta Oscar
Mike Yankee
Bravo Echo Sierra Tango,
Tango Oscar
Bravo Echo
Tango Romeo Uniform Echo
Tango Oscar
Mike Yankee Seirra Echo Lima Foxtrot, Mike Yankee
Bravo Echo Lima India Echo Foxtrot Sierra
Charlie Alfa November Alfa Delta Alfa.
Alfa November Delta
India
Whiskey Echo Lima Lima
Tango Alfa Kilo Echo
Alfa Charlie Tango India Oscar November
Foxtrot Oscar Romeo
Alfa
Bravo Echo Tango Tango Echo Romeo
Whiskey Oscar Romeo Lima Delta
Alfa November Delta
Romeo Echo Sierra Papa Echo Charlie Tango
Golf Uniform India Delta Echo
Tango Hotel Echo
Lima Alfa Whiskey.
Spelling out the Branches
Spark:
Sierra
Papa
Alfa
Romeo
Romeo
Oscar Whiskey
Uniform
India
Kilo
Brownie:
Bravo
November
India Echo
Guide:
Golf
Delta
Echo
Pathfinder:
Papa Alfa
Tango Hotel Foxtrot India November Delta Echo Romeo
Ranger:
Romeo
Alfa
November
Golf
Echo Romeo
Promises in Morse Code
Spark Promise
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Guides on the Air QSO Card
GOTA Wordsearch
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Transmitter
Crest Orders
Crests can be ordered from the Alberta Guide Office like for other Alberta Challenge
crests. Payment will be due when the order is submitted.
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