JS Spring Retreat 2024 - The Amazing Race!

 The Amazing Race is a tradition here at camp and is the biggest opportunity for our students to earn some serious points for their teams!

17 Teams race all over to complete 10 different challenges that require them to work together and communicate clearly!


Minesweeper

The team must work together to figure out the secret path from one side of the grid to the other without talking!








Fastest Time - High School Guys 2 finished in 4:08!

Yardzee

Just like yahtzee with oversized dice! Each student gets 3 rolls to try for 3 of kind, full house or a straight!







Fastest Time - High School Guys 3 finished in 2:28!


Sneak-a-Peek

Only two students on each team get to look at the secret lego structure and then must describe how to build it to their teammates with pointing at or touching any of the legos!










Fastest Time - High School Girls 2 finished in 3:01!


Flipper

This one's a little break from really having to think! On go, everyone starts flipping their bottles until 8 students can successfully flip and stand their bottles!






Fastest Time - Middle School Guys 1 finished in :36!


Memory

The team has to work together to play a game of Memory by matching pairs of cards nailed to the trees!








Fastest Time - 7th Girls 3 finished in 5:58!


Stack the Deck

The team starts with a pile of cards that they then must sort into 5 decks with each deck being sorted Ace through King and separate by Hearts, Spades, Diamonds & Clubs!








Fastest Time - High School Guys 1 finished in 4:02!


Fruit Loop Sort

A whole lotta fruit loops just gotta be sorted by color!











Fastest Time - High School Girls 2 finished in 4:32!


No Hands Relay

Teammates must carry a ball between the backs, make their way out, around a cone and back without dropping it!










Fastest Time - High School Guys 2 finished in 1:29!


Scrabble Challenge

Each student takes a turn spelling a word with a limited number of Scrabble tiles. Students keep rotating until they've built enough words to total 150 points!








Fastest Time - High School Guys 3 finished in 1:43!


Untangled

After completing the first 9 challenges the team races to the final challenge of untying a knot 5 seconds at a time!











Here's how they finished:

High School Guys 1
High School Girls 2
High School Guys 3
Middle School Guys 2
Middle School Guys 1
High School Girls 3
7th Grade Girls 1
High School Girls 1
7th Grade Girls 4
6th Grade Girls 1
8th Grade Girls
High School Guys 2
7th Grade Girls 2
7th Grade Girls 3
6th Grade Girls 2
Middle School Guys 3
Middle School Guys 4

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