Day 9
Ageya Wilderness Education Center
Homer, Alaska
DESIGN BEGINS
After standing back and watching the invisible structures of people and teams and how they work, their interests and abilities, Rico and I placed the student in design teams.
The first activity was to get them to practice working together on something really silly, just to test out the waters.
The scenario was that they crash landed in the Alaskan wilderness on their way to shoot an Alaskan Reality Show. The camera was still intact as was the radio. The TV network decided to drop in whatever they needed to survive for the year and they would be paid for the film after the year was over. They went exploring and found 2 streams and a low flow hot springs, several clearings and lots of trees.
They were given 3 cabins, a bunk house, a high tunnel, an old car that didn't run, a bear, a cave, chickens and a coop, 9 barrels, plastic flexible pipe, a stack of steel pipes, and some other random stuff. They had to place them on their map and decide why each item was placed there. 
It was fun to listen to them talk it out. And then calamity----a big gang of muscular, tatooed men with machine guns on their backs, riding 4 wheelers pulled up. They had to have some way to deal with them.
Anyway, we all had fun listening to the story that was built about their imaginary year and where they placed and especially why they placed it. AND, bonus, they all still were communicating well at the end.
