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Accomplishment of Institutional Goals New Technology Can Help This new technology can help a variety of institutions accomplish their chartered institutional goals. It can enable these institutions to meet their primary responsibilities to provide a setting where people can congregate for purposes of life enriching personal growth, social communication, and spiritual enlivenment.Camps When recruiting, cutting edge personal development camps can utilize TheShootingstreak® Personal Trainer (PT) both to attract newcomers and to reinvigorate the interest of old timers. By adding it as a new dimension to both group and individual activities, if not as a mandatory meditation practice then at least as a disciplined mind-body exercise; then later, presentation slides, photos, and videos of these exciting Camp “'Wencanweego'?” experiences would reflect scenes of happy campers at instructive play with the newest basketball training equipment. It would illustrate the precept that, for many, this might be the compelling benefit, and even, for some, their favorite activity; thereupon, ensuring their abiding attraction to the camp. Wherefore, mindful of this, TheShootingstreak® PT can be an obvious attraction for any basketball training camp per se as well as for any camp with basketball on its list of featured activity attractions. For those interested in a more sharply focused training rationale and discipline, see the final 4 Para's, beginning with: "So it is for the case of training with TheShootingstreak® PT", found under ...Community Centers. One of the everyday challenges of any camp is to keep campers occupied at interesting activities that contribute to their individual growth and development. Sometimes, in spite of the best-laid plans, it is necessary to find and organize an activity at short notice. This is where TheShootingstreak® PT can prove to be a real convenience. For example, campers are typically challenged to traditional (i.e., 'tug-of-war’) style competitions between cabins; alternatively this time, by exercising the option to put down the rope and, next, pick up the ball, the challenge would be to see who is best at shooting free throws. Straightforward comparisons can be made of shooting percentages or contests can be held to see who can score the most shots in a fixed amount of time (e.g., 10 minutes) or to see who can have the greatest shooting streak (i.e., the highest number of consecutive shots). Counselors, too, can easily get into the act by challenging either each other or the older campers. A good example of this was witnessed at Camp Tanuga, a co-ed camp for ages 6-14 in the northern territory of the lower peninsula of the State of Michigan. Here’s the full story... Campers and their counselors prepared for a camping trip: sleeping bags were rolled up with a change of clothes rolled inside; food packed up, along with tools and tarpaulins, and loaded onto trucks; lastly, canoes were lifted onto racks and paddles stowed away. Everyone jumped into the trucks and all sped off to the launch site by the river. There was just one problem... clouds had begun to roll in and a gray cloud cover could be seen to blanket the whole sky at departure time. As the trucks rambled down the old country highway, the clouds began to grumble. After the trucks rumbled into the riverbank staging area, a loud clap resounded. Then, the skies broke open unleashing a thunderous torrent of water. All scrambled to unload the supplies and erect cover for the food and sleeping bags but, the rain was so heavy that, even though they made haste, their efforts were frustratingly too slow to save more than a few of the supplies from the drenching downpour. After a call from a lean-to tent to the home office via military style mobile phone, discussions of the weather report led to the conclusion that it would be best for all to return to camp headquarters to wait out the storm. Though this was the prudent choice, it was quite a disappointment to the campers who were ready to brave the rising river rapids. Their adventurous spirits were to be dampened further over the next three days as the thunderstorm was unrelenting. Indeed, It did rain heavily the rest of the week, but then surprisingly, there was a brief respite for one day in the middle of the week when the weather broke for several hours. Amidst miserably monotonous and wet conditions, suddenly, there was a ray of sunshine and hope that campers could at last get outside to stretch for a while; preferably without threat of having to cancel some elaborately planned outdoor activity. To give credit, it was a quick witted friend, then counselor and now, the late, psychiatrist, Danniel E. Hubert, M.D., who was able to assemble campers on the basketball court and to organize a free throw shooting contest between the boys’ cabins and the girls’ cabins. This activity was just the challenge needed to bring everyone out of the doldrums. The mood of the whole camp lifted dramatically. Even those who were not experts at basketball enjoyed the free throw shooting streak contest and incidentally, though, verily, not rising to the level of WNBA performance, still (as a precursor of things that would yet come), it was the girls who beat the boys. ..."By the way, in case you were curious, WNBA players outshoot their NBA peers overall. They've made 77.5 percent of their free throws as a league three of the last four years, which would be an NBA record for accuracy."... (Ref.: Free Throws: Truth and Rumors by Kevin Pelton, in Basketball Prospectus, March 30, 2011.) To be fair, it must be said that there still may be hope for those of us who represent mankind's [dubiously] 'weaker sex' as there yet may be a convergence, or reversion to the overall population mean, as a result of convergence in player personality development, whereby, "A" and "B" personality trait convergence (particularly for gender related factors), ceteris paribus, likely would find many gender performance differences such as this to be unsustainable in the long run. In the vernacular -- "I'm just say 'in" -- Let's see what the future holds. |
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