by Mr. Andre One of the most entertaining activities we have done on the trip so far is to take part in a global treasure hunt called Geocaching. For those unfamiliar with the game, it is a past-time that uses GPS technology to allow players to locate hiding places or "caches". Before the trip, we had collected a few objects with tracking numbers (travel bugs) from caches in Taiwan. We plan to place these in caches in and around Delft, and to remove any travel bugs we find along the with the aim of putting them in caches we encounter.At the time of writing, we had located 2 caches. Unfortunately, these were too small to accommodate the trackables we had brought with us. They were really fun to find though and led us to some interesting locations in the old town. Check out the pictures below of the students zeroing in on treasure.In the evening, the students were eager to discover more caches, so we attempted to do a challenge called a multi-cache. This type of Geocaching challenge is a little more complicated than a regular cache, because it requires a fair amount of logical thinking and problem-solving. In the challenge we attempted, the students were given photographs of buildings in Delft, which they had to locate. They then had to find 3-digit numbers hidden near the vantage point of the photographer who had originally taken each of the shots. This data was then fed into a math formula that generated a series of numbers that formed a set of GPS coordinates. Even though we were successful in solving the challenge, the position of the final coordinates were too far away, so we could not place our travel bugs. The fact that we could not completely finish the quest did not discourage the students in the least, and they were already looking forward to future hunts.
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