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World-Walk Adventure by Northamptonshire
County Scouts is a group-based challenge in which
the distance walked by each Scout in the group of
10, is recorded using a wrist-worn activity tracker.
Information about the distance walked is uploaded
via a Smartphone or Tablet App to a dedicated
Website. Data from each traveller in each group is
accumulated.
Together, everyone’s steps are added and
automatically plotted on a route in Google Earth™
and the progress of the group can be followed. The
route starts at the Sir John Lowther Centre in Glendon
Northamptonshire and ends at the final resting place
of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the
Scouting Movement, in Nyeri, Kenya.
Each participant is encouraged to “contribute” 10,000
steps every day during the World-Walk Adventure so
that the group makes good progress along the route.
This is a strong motivator to being more active.
World-Walk Adventure is not a
race. There are no rewards for the
individuals who do the most steps or
for the group of 10 who get there first.
The emphasis is on the team, being
active every day, achieving group
objectives through team-work and
allowing everyone, irrespective of
sporting ability, to be a success in
this challenge.
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Once the participating troop/unit has organised their
team(s) of 10, each person will be given an account
on the Activ8rlives web-based health and wellness
tracking system. The Company Aseptika Ltd is a small
organisation based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
who have developed this website and it’s supporting
Smartphone App, to help people of all ages be active
and stay well. Funding was provided by the NHS over
a number of years and the Company’s Directors.
More detail can be found on the Company’s website:
www.activ8rlives.com
Each group of Scout World Walkers will have its
own dedicated and secure (closed) social media
page within Activ8rlives. Here members of the
group can exchange messages, post encouragement
to one another and share personal successes. It is
recommended that each Group is moderated by
their Scout Leader or nominated person. These
Group Pages are private and secure. They cannot be
seen in Google, searched for within Activ8rlives or
joined without the permission of the Scout Leader or
nominated person.
Each Scout World Walker in the team, will be
issued with a wrist-worn activity tracker called a
BuddyBand2™ which measures the number of steps
taken (like a sophisticated pedometer) and the
number of minutes in which the wearer is active
throughout each day. This information is stored in the
memory of the device for up to 30 days. The device
is waterproof for surface swimming and has been
designed to survive the rigors of being used by an
active Scout.
Each Scout World Walker will be able to see how
many steps they have made each day. This is private
and cannot be seen by anyone else, not even the
Scout Leader or nominated person.
This can be a strong motivation to achieve new
personal bests, as can the desire to contribute to the
success of their Group.
The Group gets to see the AVERAGED step count for
the Group for each day of the Adventure and their
progress along the route is plotted for them in real
time.
They will also be able to see where they are on the
map, be able to zoom into regions of interest on
the 3D map, explore cities, mountains, lakes, seas,
islands etc using the rich imagery contained within
Google Earth™ and Google Maps™.
Scouts will also be able to see the progress of the
other troops/units on the same Adventure, making
inter-group rather than interpersonal competition,
a further dimension to maintain motivation and
for each individual to keep active every day.
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Ideally yes. If available to them (and most young
people do have very capable Smartphones and have
access to iPad or Android Tablets at home), the
wearer can upload their data throughout the day
via a dedicated App which they can download free
of charge for their Apple and Android Smartphones
and Tablets. The App is called “Activ8rlives” and can
be downloaded by parents/carers for review and
assessment for use by their child.
The Smartphone or Tablet must have Bluetooth 4.0
wireless capability to upload from the BuddyBand2™.
All iPhones from version 4s and later have Bluetooth
4.0 as have iPads from version 3 or later.
For those without a Smartphone or Tablet,
arrangements can easily be made to upload their data
when they attend their weekly Scout meetings using
the Smartphone/Tablet of the Scout Leader – each
person has their own account and changing from
one account to another on a Smartphone or Tablet
is quick and easy.
Alternatively, data can be added into the App or
via the Activ8rlives website, manually by typing in
the values and this has to be done on the basis of
integrity, cooperation and respect. Core Scouting
Values.
Smartphones and Tablets with Android are very
variable. But if the Smartphone or Tablet was
purchased recently and is running Android version
4.4, it is likely that this device has Bluetooth 4.0.
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Aseptika staff will provide training for the Scout Leaders or nominated person in how to use the technology
and how to run the World-Walk Adventure programme.
The technology (Groups, Route and Management etc) will be set-up for you by Aseptika. Minimal IT skills are
needed by the Scout Leader. What is needed is Leadership by Example. This means we have to “walk our talk”
from the outset and be prepared to do a lot more walking than perhaps we are used to. This can only be a
good thing for our health too and we guarantee you will feel better for it after 6 months.
You will be taught how to:
•Download the Activ8rlives App onto
a Smartphone or Tablet via WiFi;
•How to track your own steps and activity
(yes, you have to experience this too);
•How to charge and prepare the BuddyBand2™;
how it works, what it does, how you wear it;
what it does not do;
•How to view the data and progress for each
group;
•Health and safety (including letters for PE
Teachers at school);
•Briefing for parents and parent factsheet;
•How to synchronise (upload) data from the
BuddyBand2™ to a Smartphone/Tablet;
•How to administer your Groups on the
Activ8rlives website;
•Troubleshooting and first level technical support,
loss or damage of BuddyBand2™ units;
•How to escalate support requests within
Northamptonshire Scouts;
•How to manage a situation when participant
does not have access to Smartphone/Tablet
technology but does have a PC in the home;
•Liaison with local schools re safety during PE etc.
Being active every day is the most important habit we can form. There is an overwhelming body of evidence
available to indicate that daily physical activity is as important as maintaining a healthy weight, eating a
balanced diet and ensuring we manage our “5-a-Day” portions of fruit and vegetables.
Being active is readily achieved by younger people at school, but the numbers who remain engaged in
organised sports declines dramatically for those aged 14+ and particularly for girls. Nearly 80% of girls have
disengaged from organised sport by the age of 18 if not gone onto College/University. As a nation, a culture
of inactivity is being passed down the generations, storing health problems for our communities and our
National Healthcare Service.
Our mission is to help our young people learn that to be active does not necessarily mean having to be
good at sport.
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?
The route to Nyeri has been designed to take 6 months to complete if each person walks
4 miles each day (about 10,000-14,000 steps). The number of steps depends on stride length.
6 months is the time taken to establish new habits of being active each day in young people.
For older people, this extends to 12 months to form new habits. It gets harder as we get
older to undo bad habits and adopt new ones, but the benefits are huge if we do.
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He taught young people about self-management, self-respect, valuing others and about health and nutrition
in a way which was made fun through engaging with outdoor activities, challenges, adventures and reward
schemes. Leadership was provided by volunteers who were passionate about social change.
We only have space for 500 participants in this first World-Work
Adventure and these will be allocated in the order they are received
but limited to 30 per Troop (3 Groups of 10 people).
World-Walk Adventures is a modern reinvention of this philosophy, refreshed by using the technology that
young people engage with. But the purpose, the objectives and outcomes desired are those engendered by the
Scouting ethos since 1907 – characteristics which have attracted young people through the generations and
throughout the World.
To register your interest and reserve places, email:
tonykeay@btopenworld.com by the 31 May 2015.
It is fitting, that our Adventure starts and ends at locations which honour two key benefactors: Sir John Lowther
(Northamptonshire) and Lord Robert Baden-Powell (Nyeri, Kenya).
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