Hello Guides!
Welcome to Annual Training Camp (ATC) Day 1! For today’s activity, the juniors had done mini gadgeting as well as took part in the Obstacle Journey Kahoot.
1. Mini Gadgeting
For mini Gadgeting, the juniors built a Fire Altar as well as a Creative Gadget. The Fire Altar activity allowed them to recap on the steps to build a Fire Altar, which is usually only required for Outdoor Cooking. The juniors were reminded of some of the requirements when it comes to Gadgeting, such as tucking in 鸟绳 when ending a lash. For Creative Gadgeting, the juniors built a structure related to this year’s ATC theme. The juniors were able to make use of some of their decorative materials at home, which added creative value to their structures.
Reflection from a Y1:
The Mini Gadgeting process has been a very fun and enjoyable experience for all of us. It allowed us to bond as a team and as a patrol. It also serves as a good opportunity for us to revise all the knots and lashes that we have learnt previously. The Fire Altar was a good way of projecting most of the lashes that we have learnt onto the structure itself, allowing us to revise the steps thoroughly and also learn to ask when in doubt. Though we managed to send in the pictures on the group chat on time, most of us were not able to finish the structures on time. Thus, we think that we could have done better in terms of time management. The Creative Gadgeting activity was also a good way of channeling our imagination in order to create a structure that represents our 团. I find that this would be very encouraging to all of the trainees as well as our seniors. We would also be able to share the different aspects of the structure and the rationale behind it, which was very beneficial to us. Overall, we felt that despite being behind screens, we could still feel the spirit of sisterhood and we also felt more united and bonded with our patrolmates.
Reflection from a Y2:
The mini gadgeting activity on Monday consisted of two sections, Gadgeting and Creative Gadgeting. For both of the sections, I felt that I could have improved on my sense of urgency, especially towards the beginning of the activity. The pace that I initially started was a little slow as I spent quite a bit of time having to retie or find new strings as some of them broke as I tied it. This resulted in me spending way too much time on such matters. We did not 报时 often as I was very focused on the structure and was unaware of time, which resulted in us exceeding the time given. Even though it was a Zoom session and it could have been quite awkward, I feel that I could have taken the initiative to 报时 more, as well as answering the ICs' questions in regards to the standard structure as I knew how the structure was like but I was not sure on how to explain it. However, I am somewhat happy with the progress that I managed to make with gadgeting, as I only stopped because I ran out of string to tie the sticks for the structure and it turned out better than I had expected. For the creative gadgeting part, I felt that the structure that I built, while it had a purpose, was quite unstable as I built an unconventional structure that did not have 顶角 to support it. Overall, I am not really satisfied with my performance and would work on the areas mentioned by the ICs such that when physical 集合 resumes I would have a better performance.
2. Obstacle Journey Kahoot
It is a yearly tradition to have an Obstacle Journey during ATC. This year due to the pandemic, we held the activity online through a Kahoot game. This fun and exciting activity aims to test some of the basic knowledge of Guides found in the Guides notes which the juniors should be familiar with.
Reflection from a Y1:
The Obstacle Journey Kahoot served as a good revision for us to understand more about Obstacle Journeying. As it was our first time being introduced to this, we felt that the seniors really did a great job in explaining all of the answers to the Kahoot, to let all of us understand the information better. This activity was also very interactive and was a great way to let everyone bond as a family. We felt as though we had the urge to suddenly learn all this new information quickly lest there is another quiz. Thus, this activity really motivated us to read up more on our Guides Notes so that we would be able to answer all of the questions asked in the future as well as pass down the information to our Year 1 juniors next year just like how our seniors did. Although we were not able to answer the most of the questions in the quiz, we were extremely driven to continue to learn more from our seniors and we felt that as a whole, this Kahoot activity has taught us that there are still so many things in Guides that we have yet to discover and learn, which certainly has made us love the CCA experience even more.
Reflection from a Y2:
The Obstacle Journey Kahoot quiz was a very fun experience, despite it not being able to be held in real life. This online Obstacle Journey was able to help us refresh on our Guides knowledge. For example, the symptoms of hyperventilation and the acronym for checking response, COWS. Furthermore, the quiz also included survival skills like the three steps of the edibility test and the various possible sources of water. This basic Guides knowledge was not asked directly all the time, as it also incorporated different elements of Guides. One of the hybrid questions tested us not only on our ability to recall the sources of food in addition to water, but also quizzed us on our guides code competence. This Kahoot quiz was a simple, yet entertaining and thrilling way to revise Guides' knowledge. By letting participants constantly be on the ready to answer the next questions, there was a friendly competitive environment. Although it does not have the physicality and interactiveness as an actual Obstacle Journey, it still was able to help us revise our Guides notes. Besides, it allows us to know what areas of our Guides notes we are more unfamiliar with. We will then be more motivated to take the initiative to go ahead and better acquaint ourselves with those areas. In conclusion, I feel that this online Obstacle Journey was a fun and creative way to engage us despite the many limitations of CCA being held online rather than in real life.
We hope that everyone has managed to recap some Guides knowledge and enjoyed themselves for today’s ATC Day 1!
Published by:
Pok Jing
53届 Secretary
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