Operation Archer is a competition night initiative course organised by Moreton Region. Venturer Scouts navigate around a mapped course negotiating bases consisting of First Aid, Initiative, Construction, Map & Compass, Scouting Knowledge, for example. It was held on 20th-21st March, 2010 at Mulgowie, nearly two hours away with 24 teams participating. The SES also helped out on the night, mainly communicating scores via their radios.
Sam and Stephen C. arrived first and met with Iain, the organisers, and Chase and Laurie from Queen's Park Rover Crew for lunch at Mulgowie Pub, then began setting up the bases. Emile, Matt, Travis and I arrived later in time for the opening parade.
For Operation Archer, we ran a construction base and Iain, Chase and Laurie ran the initiative base. The construction base involved teams building a tripod base for a ballista in 15 minutes, being judged on planning, team participation, leadership, personal attitude, and skills displayed. We had two separate sites set-up for construction in order to accommodate two teams at once.
Our base was in the middle of the course, so at the beginning we had to wait a little while for the first few teams to arrive, and then later in the night, many teams arrived all at once, so having two sites set-up allowed us to get through everyone more quickly. In the quiet moments, we were able to do some Urban Challenge planning, which was good.
We weren't sleeping over that night as we had to return to Brisbane for various reasons. The hike finished at 3:30am and we were able to leave then, stocked up with biscuits and energy drinks for the drive home. I ran over two cane toads on the way back, so I felt like I was assimilating well!
- Rachel -
For Operation Archer, we ran a construction base and Iain, Chase and Laurie ran the initiative base. The construction base involved teams building a tripod base for a ballista in 15 minutes, being judged on planning, team participation, leadership, personal attitude, and skills displayed. We had two separate sites set-up for construction in order to accommodate two teams at once.
Our base was in the middle of the course, so at the beginning we had to wait a little while for the first few teams to arrive, and then later in the night, many teams arrived all at once, so having two sites set-up allowed us to get through everyone more quickly. In the quiet moments, we were able to do some Urban Challenge planning, which was good.
Some Venturer teams were quite entertaining and we learnt some interesting things about one of our Rovers *cough*
We weren't sleeping over that night as we had to return to Brisbane for various reasons. The hike finished at 3:30am and we were able to leave then, stocked up with biscuits and energy drinks for the drive home. I ran over two cane toads on the way back, so I felt like I was assimilating well!
- Rachel -
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