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Choose Your Own Adventure

Writer's picture: Sarah CosterSarah Coster

Words by Sarah Coster

The Your Choice activity offered a diverse range of activities for everybody. Scouts were given the opportunity to explore new and existing interests ranging from amateur radio to escape rooms and woodwork.


The Amateur Radio Station had a few choices of activities to choose from, including learning Morse Code and the phonetic alphabet, finding radio signals, and responding to call signs from across the world.



Photo: Reggie Chang | Scout Isaac (C036) practicing Morse Code.
Photo: Reggie Chang | Scout Isaac (C036) practicing Morse Code.

There was also a badge swapping station! This allows you to explore a different variety of badges from Australia and our International Contingents. Examine camp blankets, scarves and shirts from different events over the years.


Photo: Mark Cooper | In no particular order, Ellie, Hugo, Ieremia, Marcus, Ovi and Saxby from Unit C057 admiring the heritage badges and blankets.
Photo: Mark Cooper | In no particular order, Ellie, Hugo, Ieremia, Marcus, Ovi and Saxby from Unit C057 admiring the heritage badges and blankets.

Our Escape Room activities offered three different rooms, Queensland Towns, The Scout Law and Mary Poppins. They had different puzzles of varying difficulty which related to the room’s theme for you and your patrol to work through as a team.


Garden Games encouraged you and your patrol to sit and enjoy some down time. You could play Connect Four, Jenga or Dominoes. If the games didn’t spike your interest, Scouts could sit down and relax on the shaded bench area or take a nap in a bean bag.


The Our Heritage Centre explored Scouting through the years from the beginning of Scouting with Lord Robert Baden-Powell, to the history of Jamboree itself. With old uniforms on display, badges, scarves and Scout books, visitors could immerse themselves in Scouting Heritage.


Laser Cutting and Etching: Our Code Club station offered a range of activities from designing your own robot, using a 3D Printer or making pixel art with felt. In this area they also offered laser engraving and etching on both metal and wood. Code Club Australia has brought in these activities in hopes of getting more youth interested in STEM activities.



Photo: Charlotte Pickup | Scouts learning and practicing coding.
Photo: Charlotte Pickup | Scouts learning and practicing coding.

Woodworking and Pyrography: Our Woodworking and Pyrography station allowed every person to make their own wooden woggle, a game and use a wooden burner to draw an animal of their choice on wood. Using machines, operated and donated by the Maryborough Woodworkers Club the Scouts got to use new tools they might not have been able to previously.


Photo: Mark Cooper | Eloise (C019) creating a woggle using a woodturner
Photo: Mark Cooper | Eloise (C019) creating a woggle using a woodturner

Whatever you chose you were sure to find something fun for the whole Patrol.

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