Celebrating a wonderful year and a decade of Navigation Games.

This Giving Tuesday, YOU can spark discovery, confidence, and adventure in schools by supporting Navigation Games!  Orienteering turns the outdoors into a giant puzzle. It builds problem-solving skills, teamwork, resilience, and joy as kids learn to navigate. And the best part? It can be taught in every school. Working with schools is our primary focus. Every child goes to school, and by working with schools, we can reach the most children. In 2025, Navigation Games: Empowere

More than 240 participants at Navigation Games' Vampire-O, 2025!

Start the Revere's Crossing Event at Long Wharf (pictured) or North Point Park, Cambridge Ready to combine history, geography, physical education, and problem-solving into one unforgettable experience? As educators, we're always looking for ways to make learning come alive for our students. What if I told you there's an event happening right in Boston that lets you literally follow in Paul Revere's footsteps while mastering navigation skills that could transform your classr

Ten years ago today, on June 3rd, 2015, something amazing officially began.

Jesse Tubb, an Army veteran and adventure racer, uses navigation activities to coach life skills I met Jesse Tubb at a recent...

By Keegan Harkavy In sixth grade, I had a life-changing experience. For the first time in my life, I held a map and was told to find my...

Orienteers and workshop presenters Emilee Vizenor and Bridget Hall with a map of a camping conference venue in Wisconsin Navigation Games...

What an incredible evening! Our inaugural Leprechaun-Orienteering event at Fresh Pond Reservation was a massive success, drawing 124...

Navigation Games is currently looking for our next orienteer-in-residence! Learn more about the program and apply today!

We are excited to announce that Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) student Min-Jae Kuo  has been selected to the prestigious US...

Image 1:   Left- Navigation Games program manager, Mikayla Moss, helps participants check their times and accuracy. Right- Orienteering team member, Betsy Dicke, explains orienteering activities to elementary school students. On a Tuesday evening this January, close to 200 girls between the grades of Kindergarten and 5th grade and their families filled the gym of the War Memorial Recreation Center in Cambridge, MA. “Girls in Sports Night” was dedicated to exposing Cambridge

Learn about the adaptive orienteering for the visually impaired being done at Camp Abilities in Delaware, New Jersey and Arizona!

Navigation Games has hit the news cycle once again, this time in the Cambridge Day. Authored by one of our fantastic friends and volunteers, Andy Zucker, this article shines a light on the variety, and importance of our work at Navigation Games. Give it a read and find out the many ways we can all benefit from orienteering. Reminder that now through the end of December, all donations to Navigation Games will be DOUBLED up to $20,000 by a motivated donor, so please, consider d

End of Year Gratitude Staff and volunteers check-in a line of 2024 Vampire-O participants at Danehy Park, Cambridge. Dear friends and...

Last Saturday, November 23, 2024, Navigation Games had the privilege of delivering the Area 1 NJROTC Regional Orienteering Championship,...

A huge thank you to our favorite-Friday afternoon Harvard students who blitzed through a bunch of admin and operational tasks. What a...

This year’s Vampire-O event was a huge success, and we’re thrilled to share the highlights! With over 250 participants and 71 teams —the...

Photo credit: Clinton Morse Cambridge Rindge and Latin School is the only high school in Massachusetts with an orienteering team...

National team member Keegan Harkavy introduced us to the book “From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding One’s Way” by Michael Bond. It’s a fantastic exploration of human navigation, and suggests that activities like orienteering could be beneficial for our modern brains. This summary of Bond's book and additional research was written by Navigation Games staffer Jackson Codd , a graduate of the CRLS orienteering team in Cambridge, MA. Humans evolved as social creatur