What this blog will be…

Welcome to the Adventure Center Blog. This blog is designed to allow people in all aspects of the Adventure Industry to communicate about trends, ideas, stories, and anything else related to the Industry. There will be some regular features on the site:

Mondays - Games Day: this will be an open forum to post your favorite games, activities, initiatives, and challenge course variations.

Wednesday - Industry Happenings: Each Wednesday we will look at a topic from the Adventure Industry. This will be an opportunity to discuss and see perspectives from all over the Adventure Learning world.

Fridays – Stories from the Field: This will be a day dedicated to stories from your world. Inspirational, funny, or just something that you saw that you need to tell people about.

The blog will be updated weekly on these days starting on March 10th, 2008. I encourage you to comment and spread the word about this resource. The more people we have commenting, the better the discussions will be. If you have any questions, please feel free to email, or post a comment. Look forward to hearing from everyone!

-Joshua Best

Adventure Center Coordinator

What is The Adventure Center?

Our Adventure Center includes a 3,200 square-foot indoor activity center complete with a climbing wall and low-ropes course. Outdoors, we also have a 26-foot high-ropes course, a 40-foot climbing tower, a larger low-ropes course and more. The Adventure Center allows us to offer our residents, teens and community groups Adventure Based Learning. The Adventure Center also uses a full range of adventure based activities to help children, teens, adults and families learn strategies to deal with the normal and sometimes overwhelming problems of everyday life. The Adventure Center offers day-long programs, weekend programs, and week-long residential camps in the summer. Our programs can improve peer and group interaction skills, social skills, and productivity.

Skills taught at The Adventure Center include:

•Goal setting

•Problem solving

•Building trust

•Meeting challenges

•Self-control

•Having fun!

Using exhilarating, adventure-based activities, we help people push limits, overcome obstacles and achieve goals. All activities are led by certified facilitators in a safe, secure environment.