Why did we register this event? North West Orienteering Club in New Zealand noticed that the date of the event falls within WOW and we thought it would be good to have an event from New Zealand and it will also provide a different angle for them to use when marketing the event. And they thought that the … Continued
The association, the Egri Spartacus Orienteering Running Sports Association, is based in the beautiful baroque town of Eger, Hungary. They currently have nearly 100 active members, 70 of whom are under 20 years old. They think it is important to get as many children as possible interested in orienteering, and the previous World Orienteering Day, … Continued
The club, BASOC (Badenoch & Strathspey Orienteering Club) based in the north of Scotland SE of Inverness. It is a very small club (about 30 members) and the population density in the area is low. They however have some terrific areas (e.g. Loch Vaa was used for the WOC Relay in 1999) and many clubs … Continued
David Alcock teach Geography at Bradford Grammar School, in northern England. He have organised a World Orienteering Day event for the school students every year since 2016 (apart from the pandemic-affected year of 2020). The timing fits in nicely with our internal examination week for Year 7 and 8 students (aged 11-13), as running an … Continued
One of the most exciting elements of the Enrich/IOF partnership was the potential to work together to explore how Maze Orienteering could be incorporated within an ‘Orienteering Event Day’ package, so that schools which do not have a conventional orienteering course could be offered the opportunity to provide a rewarding orienteering experience to children.The intention … Continued
In Denmark, Torben , has preregistered a WOW event for 2024. He is a captain in the Danish defence and a volunteer in the Danish Home Guard, North Jutland district. He has an education as an orienteering coach and course setter and he runs orienteering races himself when the time is right. But mostly he … Continued
World Orienteering Week partner SportIdent has an Orienteering-App that makes your training easy. Create a new training session in the O-App installed on your smartphone, select the training mode (Standard, Score-OL or Rogai-ning) and record the participants.After crossing the finish line, connect the mini Reader to your smartphone, read the SI-Card and automatically print out … Continued
Don Winslow is a teacher who works with special education students and have been teaching for 32 years. He is also a member of the Rochester Orienteering Club and OUSA. He started orienteering in 2006 using the permanent orienteering courses that his club, Rochester Orienteering Club has made. He is the caretaker for one of those courses at Webster Park … Continued
WOW-partner OCAD, that specializes in software development for the production of maps, has extended its Route Analyzer and made it accessible for forest orienteering. Thanks to the consideration of runnability and relief, the Route Analyzer 2.0 can find the fastest routes between two controls in urban as well as in classic forest terrain. The first … Continued
OCAD is offering a free OCAD Starter License to anyone who preregister a World Orienteering Week event for 2024. The license is valid until May 2024. The step to be taken: Preregister your WOW event here. Send an email with the name of the WOW 2024 event to wow@orienteering.sport Wait for the OCAD Starter License … Continued