Ropes
Course Teambuilding Activity
 Community
Schoolhouse students once
again participated in a fun and exhilarating teambuilding activity September
23-25 and October 1 at Youth With A Mission (YWAM) ropes course in south Salem.
The ropes course is a variety of obstacles designed to encourage
participants to work together in order to accomplish specific goals.
Each element is made up of various cables, wooden beams, ropes, tires,
and surrounding trees. The elements
encourage the development of trust, teamwork, confidence, cooperation,
perseverance, communication and interdependence.
 On
each of the four days, a different group of students traveled to YWAM to
participate in ropes course high and low element activities.
The day began with a quick overview of activities designed to build
confidence and awareness among teams of 8-10 students and staff.
The teams then rotated among a variety of fun and challenging activities
for the remainder of the day.
Imagine
climbing 35 feet up a tree and then rocketing down the "zipline,” or
climbing up a 25-foot high
rock wall, or hurtling through space like a pendulum
80 feet off the ground, or standing atop a 20-foot high pole and being asked to
jump out and touch a ball suspended seven feet ahead of you.
A safety harness alleviated all of these possible dangers.
Students
and staff learned to trust other team members and to share ideas to help
accomplish a goal. They also learned a little more about themselves and to
just go for it!
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