With an ever increasingly risk-adverse society which I see as limiting the decision making for young people I am constantly concerned for the 'dilution' of such activities as The Duke of Edinburgh Award.
As a full-time outdoor professional in this area I see the Award as not only a great personal development tool for the students participating but also for the supervisors / leaders etc working on them.
There is now software on the mgps tracking software developmentarket that can allegedly track and pinpoint the students exact location 24 hours a day. I see this as a fantastic technical concept that would make my job so easy - in fact that easy that I don't know what I'd do all day or what I'd have to think about.
The participants should be completely self sufficient and have minimal contact with supervisors on when on their Qualifying Venture. I'm concerned that if there is a problem that they woulgps tracking software developmentdn't have the opportunity to sort it out themselves as the emergence and application of this technology would mean more intervention from supervisors and the like.
I would judge that any group that needs this device shouldn't be in that area and any Instructor / Supervisor that feels she / he needs it shouldn't be operating there or with those people either.
Seems a sensible additional tool...
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