I did a presentation on North Shore Rescue at the West Vancouver Memorial Library yesterday .. part of their summer reading club. The audience was mostly kids from 8 to 12 years old and a few parents - about 26 in all.
Education on mountain safety is something that NSR does quite frequently - Curtis, Wally, Connie & Russ really spearhead this program - this was my first presentation - and possibly my first presentation to children at any time!
Beforehand, I trimmed up the standard NSR mountain safety presentation to focus more on stories, and to try to engage the children as to what they think they should do when they go into the mountains, and the types of things they should take.
It went quite well! They had a truckload of questions on all facets of rescue & mountain stuff. Certainly, the interactive engagement worked well, but (for next time), need to remove virtually all text from the presentation - children generally go blank on powerpoint text. :-)
Also ... need to trim the message to it's base elements to get the message across. For younger kids, there's the Hug-A-Tree program that other folks inside NSR have presented - too young for this particular audience.
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