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Oct 14, 2015
For the last 24 hours my challenge was to secretly take a picture of everybody at the UA semester. I started off by putting on camouflage using mud, ash, and charcoal. And then I headed off to the tech barn to look for some specimens to begin the project It was very difficult to get close enough to […]
Oct 9, 2015
On the fourth day of the fourth week of the U.A. Adventure Semester, my group was challenged to create, execute, and finalize a scientific experiment. In the beginning, we were faced with the decision of whether we wanted to do a psychologic experiment or a biological experiment. It was split down the middle, and on […]
Oct 7, 2015
Today, our challenge was to create and film a exercise regime. We decided to create our fitness video for peers and staffers right here at the High Desert Center in Paonia, Colorado! We started out with some basic safety, like remembering water and staying protected from the elements, be them rain, snow, or sun. Then […]
Oct 6, 2015
This is day 2, week 4 of the UA Adventure Semester. My group’s challenge today was to teach the rest of our group how to recognize one type of native plant, with a catch – half the group we were teaching would be blindfolded, and half would be blocking out sound with music. The goal […]
Oct 5, 2015
Hello Internet friends! Today our group challenge was to create a website about ourselves, so we can control how we are seen on the Internet. We created a website on GoDaddy.com, the worlds leading domain registrar. Each of us chose a unique and personal domain name. Some of us chose camp nicknames, like Pop and […]
Oct 3, 2015
Today is Friday October 2nd. For the last two days our challenge was to create and complete our own challenge. We brainstormed and came up with many ideas. We discussed our options and shared opinions. We eventually came to a group consensus to make a horror film. We set out and gathered our camping gear, […]
Sep 30, 2015
These past 2 days have been intense for my group, and very accomplishing. We were the exercise group and we were true to our name. The first day our group (Joe, Katie M, Max C, Kieran, and myself) started out by waking up at 5:00 in the morning and driving to the base of Mt. […]
Sep 22, 2015
First day of new challenges in week two, with a completely new group! Today’s challenge entailed doing four radical acts of kindness, two on our own and two as a group. One as a group must be completed for recognition and one anonymous Spencer, Dave, Joe, Kieran, Aubrie, and Ari as facilitator started off the […]
Sep 19, 2015
Today our group finally experienced the long awaited dancing challenge! Last night, Tabi, our mentor, told us that we would have to choose our dance song within an hour. If we failed, we would have to dance to M.C. Hammer’s 2 Legit 2 Quit. But since our group, over the past week, has developed into […]
Sep 16, 2015
Today, a group of four strapping youths embarked upon a journey they had already witnessed several of their peers embark upon. Each was to construct a bird house from recycled materials. This task required the overcoming of a challanges ranging from the mastery and sharing of certain construction tools, the intricacies of bird house architecture, […]