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MECTA in the news... MECTA
Outdoors for Children Fox 25 featured MECTA on primetime news in November, 2003, in response to a growing concern by parents regarding their childrens' safety should their young ones become lost in the woods. Dan Jaehnig of Fox covered the story. MECTA has an established program to teach children how to survive in the woods in the event that they need these skills. Fox 25 covered a MECTA class with several elementary school children in November, 2003. Instructors Linda Gosselin and Chris Allan were interviewed in the television segment and numerous shots of the children learning various survival skills was covered.
A student learning through blindfolding that when we think we have a natural ability to travel in a straight direction, we actually wind up circling around. This method debunks a commonly held myth that we have a 'natural sense of direction'.
Here, a child is learning how to use her senses to their fullest by cupping her ears and listening for distant, difficult to detect sounds that might give her a clue as to in what direction help can be found Chris Allan describing a method of finding one's way back to points of familiarity by circling. .
Here, Linda Gosselin is showing children how to select a landmark, central point from which to circle outwards in an effort to find a familiar spot. Find more information about MECTA OUTDOORS here:
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