Trust School Challenge
Schools Program
Community participation is central to the Rescue on Everest challenge. Both the Everest Rescue Trust and its principal sponsor, TGR Helicorp Ltd, are 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 and 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 choose 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 available to download free of charge. Further options exist to translate the program into foreign languages and/or to develop project content for inclusion at secondary school level.
Edutainment
Everest Rescue Trust has created a challenging educational game called SkyHook for the entertainment of all children. The game strategy is based on the activity of the Trust challenge, 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 artistic license is applied with some humour with a Yeti and a few other surprises. There is very deliberately NO blood or violence in this game. We want it 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. Parents and web viewers are encouraged to give a small donation which adds them to our regular email updates on progress, interviews, pictures and videos sometimes not available anywhere else. Click here for more information or to donate.
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 quizzes 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 Trust's founders are supplying and installing modern computer hardware and satellite internet facilities in three village schools and medical clinics at Khunde and Khumjung, high in the Himalayan Mountains. This equipment will allow those village students and their teachers to interact with similarly-aged students from around the world. It will also allow geographically-isolated medical doctors and clinicians to communicate with medical professionals and hospital staff around the world, seek help and get the right answers.
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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