Our program is based on the international sport of orienteering. Hundreds of thousands of world class athletes, weekend adventurists and amateurs of all ages hit the trails and backwoods year round in competitions large and small sponsored all over the world. Players win by winding through forests, traversing fields, slogging through swamps and circumventing or, if strategy dictates, ascending hills and mountains in order to reach hidden controls, accumulate points and finish the course in the fastest time.

The demands the sport of orienteering make, both physical and mental, and its focus on individual achievement draw to it a distinctive participant. Years of international orienteering competition, teaching, and event production inevitably led CUFI founder, Deborah Humiston, to a conclusive concept:

Take away orienteering’s inherently rigorous and highly competitive physical demands and apply its general elements to group focused navigation challenges for all ages and abilities. The goal being to enhance and develop individual AND group decision-making skills, self-confidence, communication, cooperation, and interpersonal relations. All this while having fun.

And it works every time.

Can You Find It challenges have been developed by merging navigational challenges, problem-solving activities and creative tasks utilizing cutting edge handheld Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Participants learn organizational business skills from meaningful play, and foster a sense of team work while utilizing high-tech navigation tools, enjoying and learning about their surroundings and benefiting from physical exercise.

The Challenges

1. Points of Interest - Challenge your team to develop strategies, move through the landscape, and acquire points and clues that will direct you to the goal of finding the secret cache, which varies depending on the landscape. Efficient communication, recognition of strengths of individual team members, and creative problem solving are required for solving this puzzle.

2. Product Development Challenge - The objective is to design and produce a new product for the company and accompanying marketing pitch which can include a jingle, press release, TV commercial, multi media presentation…whatever a team can dream up within a designated time frame. The “winner” is determined based on creativity, functionality and marketability. GPS systems and custom maps lead teams to hidden items to be used in the creation of their products and sales campaigns.

4. The Ultimate Map Game - Can-You-Find-It will lead your groups through a complete crash course in the navigation skills used for world class competition. Forget about what the scouts told you. There will be no bearings or declination here. Decisions are based on determining where your team is and what route they want to take to reach the next control point.

5. Cell Phone Scramble - The cell phone is their life line as teams receive various data directing them to places and in ways to accumulate points, outsmart their competition and break the secret code.

6. Customize Your Needs - Coordinated training conferences have built in themes and outcomes. We work with you to structure a challenge that will reinforce your objectives. Unique events have been designed for night navigation, museums, ocean cruises, Island mysteries and DaVinci Code Puzzles. Tell us what you want to see and we'll make it happen!

Perfectly Suited For –
Corporate Outings,
Conferences, Company Picnics,
Family Reunions, Weddings, Retirement Parties,
Celebrations, Town-Wide Historical Treasure Hunts,
City Hunts and more!
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