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Studies have shown that outdoor recreation programs can be beneficial to a student's well-being and stress levels in terms of calming and soothing the mind. [15] Universities in the United States often offer indoor rock climbing walls, equipment rental, ropes courses and trip programming. [ 16 ]
In 1909, students at New Hampshire's Dartmouth College organized a club around such outings, with a particular emphasis on winter sports. [2] National Geographic published an article [ 3 ] about a Dartmouth Outing Club skiing trip in 1920, and the following spring saw a 300 percent increase in applications for admission to the college. [ 4 ]
Other US based outdoor education programs include Project Adventure and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Project Adventure focuses on day use of ropes courses. NOLS uses the outdoor setting to train leaders for outdoor programs and for other settings including training every new US astronaut and 10% of the US Naval Academy.
Certain aspects of program instructors such as biographical characteristics, personality, and interpersonal interactions can have a large influence on participants' achievement of desired program outcomes. [23] Instructors may be required to have a bachelor's degree in Outdoor Leadership to instruct at most Universities and community colleges.
With summer coming to an end and fall around the corner, students and teachers are diving into the upcoming school year. While students are busy getting into a back-to-school routine, teachers and ...
Robinson Hall, home to the Dartmouth Outing Club offices. The Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) is the oldest and largest collegiate outing club in the United States. [1] Proposed in 1909 by Dartmouth College student Fred Harris to "stimulate interest in out-of-door winter sports", the club soon grew to encompass the college's year-round outdoor recreation and has had a major role in defining ...
The agency is required to create a Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Program, or SCORP, every five years informed by several public surveys. Among the 8,000 responses to this year’s ...
National Program for Playground Safety – U.S. clearinghouse for playground safety information; The Overprotected Kid – article about adventure playgrounds in The Atlantic; This new ‘risky’ playground is a work of art – and a place for kids to escape their mollycoddling parents (Sanné Mestrom, The Conversation, November 9, 2022)