School TB Release is coming

[Grandma & Grandpa]

Many of you have been very involved in helping our school TB’s get moving each fall. We’ll be attaching tags to the students’ items and snapping pics tomorrow, rough drafting the About and Goal paragraphs as com arts assignments next week, and typing / building the webpages in computer technology class the following week. We prepared our state, national, and world maps on hallway bulletin boards today, and assigned map pins for each sixth grader.

These TB’s should be hitting the GeoWorld around Oct. 1. Our primary release locations will again be GC17508 – Seton’s St. M-M TB Retreat in Waupaca, and GC13EA5 – Seton’s Eagle Nest, just west of the Fox Valley on Hwy 10. Of course, special delivery arrangements can be made for a local cacher heading out someplace cool far away!

We’ve sent out over 120 TB’s in the last couple of years. About 75% are still in action, although they seem to have taken a pretty hard muggle hit in the last month. The stats of the bunch set loose a year ago may be seen on one of our profile pages, SetonCachers2.

Typically, our students have some pretty lofty goals for their TB’s. But the truth is, they are absolutely thrilled to have one move anywhere, and posted pics are even better. So many of our WI cachers have just gone way beyond the ordinary helping with this project, which we appreciate very much. And we seek your participation again!

I’ll post updates as we begin putting these out. And in advance, thanks a lot for all the help we’re gonna get!

cYa, Grandpa Jim & the SetonCachers3 team

[ecorangers]

This summer has been the worst with an “anonymous” trackable thief in the West Bend Area taking trackables from caches and not “tracking” them. My apologies to the owners of these trackables I and can’t believe how someone can stoop to this level. I believe it is NOT a beginner geocacher since they have raided our hotels numerous times this summer. Way to go LOSERS! If I come across your students trackables I will do my best to get them going on their mission. Tami

[sandlanders]

All right! Been waiting for this year’s TB release. Road trip to Waupaca coming up!

Great job you do with these, Jim!

[JimandLinda]

Echoing Tami’s post. We changed our Exchange to a micro, while we assess the non-logged trackables.
Looking forward to moving some student bugs along! Make sure you sanitize those TB tags. Would hate to spread the swine…OOPS, H1N1 virus around the world! LOL!
We take our anniversary trip the first week in October, so keep on schedule, kids! 😉

[Grandma & Grandpa]

Well, network and schedule problems slowed us down a little… But the first ten of our student TB’s will land in our cache at the Waupaca Catholic Church ( GC13EA5 ) tomorrow shortly after noon. The other thirty-some will be moving out this week.

We’re not sure what’s going to happen to the other Seton cache over near the Valley. The business where it is located is suddenly without inventory due to its supplier going belly up. We are actively looking for a suitable place to move the cache to. Stay tuned…

Jim & all the SetonCachers teams

[Grandma & Grandpa]

Assuming I can do it on the way into work without getting soaked and muddy (or full of snow…), about ten TB’s oughta go into our Waupaca and ten into our Menasha Seton caches Tuesday morning.

The first batch disappeared out of the Waupaca cache pretty fast!

Thanks for the help. Let’s move ’em out before they get buried!

cYa, Jim

[Grandma & Grandpa]

OK, here’s where we have around 25 school TB’s stashed for this weekend:

GC17508 in Waupaca near Hwy 10 / 22 / 54

GCRF7A 3 miles south of Waupaca just off Cty K

GC13EA5 near Hwy 10 & 76, just west of the Fox Valley

The kids missions are lofty, but they’ll be thrilled with initial TB movement and pictures posted. As these move out from Wisconsin, we’ll really get going with the other curricular areas – geography, statistics, math graphing, com arts letter writing, etc.

Sounds like a nice weekend to get out of the house and do some caching! We hope to.

cYa, Jim

[sandlanders]

Hey, Grandpa Jim! Just checked out some of the TBs the kids have out this year as we plan a visit to Waupaca. Like how you have gotten each one going with a log and a photo. Good examples for all of us who pick these up and move them. We sure enjoyed helping a couple of these move last year, and we hope there are some left for us to pick up this year. Thanks for all that you and your colleagues do on this project!

[Sparse Grey Hackle]

This is a great project to be involved in.

We have moved about eight new SetonCacher’s TB’s and they are ready to get moved along to the next stage of their journey.

Perhaps you could visit GC16MX0 and help move them along.

Thanks!

SGH & BB

[Grandma & Grandpa]

I know the weather has been pretty nasty, but our kids are still antsy, looking for their TB’s to move out. Our 3 caches are packed pretty full, and have been for a couple of weeks now.

Next week we’ll use GPS’ to lay out the base of the Great Pyramid on our school block, guaging height off the Menasha water tower behind the old Gilbert Paper Co mill. This activity really helps to visualize just how huge this pyramid really is. Awesome to consider these were built by hand thousands of years ago. But when I was over there in the 1970’s, the Italians had been hired to put some of the stone blocks back up that had rolled off – the 20th century Egyptians did not have the technology to fix their own pyramids…

Thanks a lot. cYa, Jim & the Seton CMS 6th graders

[Grandma & Grandpa]

Our Seton’s Eagle Nest cache ( GC13EA5 ) which has been a launching site for many of our school TB’s, will be moved a couple of miles closer to the Fox Valley sometime the week of Nov. 2. It will still be along the Hwy 10 corridor.

If you have plans to visit this cache next week, be sure to keep an eye on the cache page for updated info. The move and new coordinates will be announced here as well.

Thanks a lot. cYa, Jim

[Grandma & Grandpa]

On Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 5:00 pm, the Seton’s Eagle Nest cache was moved eastward a couple of miles to:

N44 13.251 W088 29.506

It still has 2 of our student’s TB’s in it, plus I added a couple of different ones to the collection.

The new location has not caught up yet on gc.com, although I expect it will shortly.

So who will be the FTF at this new spot?

Thanks, cYa, Jim

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