For Parents
Schools Program
Community participation is central to the “Rescue on Everest” challenge. The Everest Rescue Trust is passionate about empowering people to reach their full potential through the values of education, participation and self-belief.
New Zealand has a rich and proud tradition of developing and nurturing innovators and leaders in almost every field of human endeavour.
In consultation with New Zealand education authorities, the Trust has developed a comprehensive interactive schools project to run in tandem with the “Rescue on Everest” challenge. The schools project is based on established curricular modules tailored to students aged between eight and twelve. Combining learning with adventure and challenge, the project has been enthusiastically endorsed by teachers and students during pre-launch school trials. Participating students register their own unique password and ID to access the site.
The schools project is available free-of-charge to all primary and intermediate English-speaking school-age children (or any other student) around the world. Teacher resource kits for the schools project will also be free to download. Further options exist to translate the program into foreign languages and, or, develop project content for inclusion at secondary school level. We are seeking participation from translators to assist with this. Please contact us if you can help.
Edutainment
Everest Rescue Trust has created a challenging educational game called SkyHook for reward and entertainment of all children. This game strategy is based on the activity of the Trust challenge of rescuing injured climbers, cleaning rubbish and litter from the mountains and creating awareness of the harsh conditions of the environment. Players must overcome difficulties including weather, avalanches, rockfalls, temperature, time and fuel use. A little license is applied with some humour with a "will-o-wisp" Yeti and a few other surprises. There is very deliberately NO blood or violence. We want this to be a pleasant interlude in the progress of completing the school project and an adjunct to the learning process.
Open Access
The schools project may be viewed at home by children, using their school login, allowing their parents to view what is being done and their child's progress. The game SkyHook can also be played freely at home too.
Student Security
Student security is paramount. The Login and Password registration database information contains only the information to uniquely identify the child separately from other children for the results of their progress and quizes which can be read by the child and the teacher. It does not and cannot be used to otherwise identify the child or in any way trace the identity of the child through emails or notes on the internet.
Nepali Student Involvement
In addition to the schools project, the Everest Rescue Trust is supplying and installing modern computer hardware and satellite internet facilities in three village schools and two medical clinics at Khunde, Khumjung and Namche Bazar, high in the Himalayan Mountains. This equipment will allow village students in Nepal to interact with similarly-aged students from around the world for the duration of the “Rescue on Everest” Challenge. It will also allow geographically-isolated medical doctors and clinicians to communicate with medical professionals and hospital staff around the world.
NZ Schools join global interactive campaign to learn about Nepal and Everest while following the Rescue on Everest Challenge at www.rescueoneverest.org
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