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For the last nine years, the Illinois EPA has teamed up with state
corporations to support the Governor's Environmental Corps (GEC),
a summer internship program for college students and graduating
high school seniors. This summer, 15 Illinois corporations sponsored
36 interns who were placed in IEPA offices throughout the state.
On June 2 the 2000 GEC class traveled to the Eagle Creek Adventure
Learning Center near Lake Shelbyville to take part in the "Adventures
in Team Building - Outdoor Adventure Challenge Program." Challenges
included donning a harness and helmet to climb a 32 foot pole, stand
atop it and then jump off, trying to catch a trapeze. The "teamwork"
part meant three other interns kept the harness rope taut. In other
tests, challengers had to pass tennis balls to a team member standing
on others' shoulders, clamber through rope obstacles without touching
the rope, and try to maneuver two six-member teams to opposite ends
of a log without touching the ground.
The purpose of the challenge program was not only to help the
interns get to know each other better, but to prepare them for their
work at the Illinois EPA by giving them tasks that required teamwork
before they could be finished.
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The objective: put tennis balls in a bucket as fast as possible, while
the bucket is aloft and an instructor watches.
Interns pass each other through a web
of ropes without touching the ropes.
Six-man teams try to switch postions on
a log without anyone touching the ground. |
