Last Wednesday, Team O'Neill and Team Cortes participated in an all day high ropes course in the field house. Mr. Kain, Mr. Marcos, and Mr. Gustafson guided, taught, and helped students complete the course. "High Ropes is a highlight of the year for Team One-ill. Every students from both teams attempted the course!" said Ms. O'Neill.
Before starting, teams did a few team building activities.
The first activity was a name game. Every one would say their name, and a fruit that started with the same letter that their first name did. For example, Alex was "Alex Avacado." The person next to him would have to repeat "Alex Avacado" and make up his own and so on and so on.
Next was a jump rope activity. One after the other, a person would jump through the rope to the other side. If some one messed up or missed their turn, every one had to start over. At first, we couldn't get more than 10 people through. After a few tries, we got over 40 people through in 1 try. It was a great feeling!
Next was another jump rope activity. Now, every one stood in front of the rope and had to jump at the same time. This is more difficult than it looks. The teams brain stormed and tried many different ways of completing the activity.
Not long after we got over 5 jumps!
Finally, it was time to start high ropes! Mr. Marcos went over safety rules with us.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kain went over how to rope yourself into the course so you are always safe.
There was a ground course to get the feel of what you would be doing in the air.
"I thought the high ropes course was really cool. We all had our fears, and conquered them. That happened because we all helped each other." -Chris Kopec
Here, Nick Bowden climbs a loose ladder to the ceiling.
Diana was fearful, but attempted to climb the rock wall!
Julia encouraged Essence to overcome her fear of heights and climb one more step up the ladder than she did last year. She did it!
Photos by Kayla Woodward
Story by Annemarie Schaefer
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