In Kropyvnytskyi, the team from the Donetsk Regional Center for Tourism and Local History for Schoolchildren, in partnership with the municipal institution “Sokil Lyceum of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council,” organized and held a dynamic orienteering competition.
Serving as a large-scale platform for active leisure and informal learning, the event brought together nearly 200 participants aged 9 to 17, including internally displaced children from the Donetsk region.
A unique feature of the competition was its unconventional format: the courses were laid out across four floors of the school building. Participants worked in confined spaces where every decision mattered. They navigated the course for speed while constantly analyzing the map, determining their location, and accounting for the building’s levels and the logic of movement between them.
The young athletes demonstrated endurance, flexible thinking, and true sportsmanship. Despite the intensity of the courses, the hall was filled with a friendly atmosphere of support, healthy competition, and excitement.
Winners and prize winners in their age categories received awards and sweet gifts, while all participants gained invaluable experience, new impressions, and additional motivation to pursue orienteering.
Orienteering is an intellectual sport that fosters attentiveness, strategic thinking, independence, and the ability to act in non-standard conditions. Such activities are an important tool today for the development of youth and the strengthening of their physical and psychological resilience.