A New and Unique Simple Solution to Getting Kids Out of the Classroom and Outdoors Viable for All Educators

Troy Wells

Troy Wells

Director, SUP Hire (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

We will introduce to you our brand new app. The app has been developed through 2024 by a teacher and outdoor education specialist, and you’ll get first hand experience using it, finding out its simplicity and sharing ideas for using it in different subject areas. You’ll join a forum to talk to others and see how quick and easy it is to create an almost instant scavenger hunt, which you can then also see from the user (student) perspective. This app is so easy to use that an educational treasure hunt that gets kids out of the classroom can be created in minutes. This is a great way to encourage classroom teachers to take kids outside of the classroom and can be used on the school grounds or in a wider outdoor environment. A valuable and game changing resource for classroom teachers, parents and outdoor education leaders. The app utilizes all of the positive powers of a smart phone and does not require any of the distracting elements that smartphones have become known for. Phones are used in reality in real-life and this is a positive way in which we can use their incredible power to encourage students to get out and explore the world around them.

About Troy

Troy is the founder and director of SUP Hire (Thailand) Co., Ltd, the first and largest provider of River Stand Up Paddleboarding in Southeast Asia. He is a teacher with QTS and 20+ years of classroom experience, along with lots of experience running school trips and subsequently providing outdoor education experiences. Troy has been an avid watersports enthusiast for over 40 years, in many sports. Recently, Troy’s interest in how to create apps that assist in outdoor education has been piqued and he has created several apps that are useful for this purpose. This interest manifests itself in a yearly project for development of a new app, the latest of which he will share with you in the session.