Do you have connections to anyone who works at a summer camp? If so, please let them know about this webinar aimed at getting orienteering into camps! The webinar will take place on December 17th at 1pm ET. It is free for members of the ACA and $40 for members of the public.
Orienteering USA is planning to offer partial (80%) scholarships to cover the costs of a series of four upcoming introductory mapping classes offered by Navigation Sports in January and February 2026.
Interested mappers must be nominated by their clubs by December 15th, and each club may nominate a maximum of two people. Interested? Read on.
Interested mappers must be nominated by their clubs by December 15th. Each club may nominate a maximum of two people.
Nominees must:
Priority will be given to nominees who:
Those selected for the scholarships are responsible for 20% of the course cost, though clubs are encouraged to reimburse members for this portion. The final 80% will be paid by OUSA. Total cost for the series of four classes is $270CAD.
The series includes four introductory level classes using either Open Orienteering Mapper (runs on Windows and MacOS) or OCAD (only runs on Windows). See entire course calendar.
Open Orienteering Mapper classes will be held on Tuesdays (January 20th, 27th, February 3rd, 10th) at 6:30pm ET.
OCAD classes will be held on Thursdays (January 22nd, 29th, February 5th, 12th) at 6:30pm ET.
Subjects covered in the four sessions will be:
Reach out to your club president or mapping coordinator to be nominated.
For questions please contact mapping@nullorienteeringusa.org.
If you are an officer of an OUSA member club, keep reading!
Orienteering USA club charters run on a calendar-year basis and are now due for renewal. To renew for 2025, complete the renewal form and submit/return it with the required fees and documentation by March 31, 2025. If you fail to meet this deadline, your club will not be covered by the Orienteering USA liability insurance until your charter renewal is received. Please read all of the enclosed instructions.
Full Instructions and a Downloadable Form
Lists of Current OUSA members by club
Finally, you can access the On-line form.
If you need help or cannot renew on-line, Please contact: shawn.callahan@nullorienteeringusa.org
Stay up to date with Orienteering USA events, forums, and deadlines by subscribing to the OUSA Events Calendar!
Don’t miss out on upcoming O-Forums, national ranking events, online course review sessions, and more!
It’s almost time for Clubs and Supporting Members to recharter with Orienteering USA!
OUSA Clubs (regular and associate) and Supporting Members can start the recharter process in January 2025. More information to come in January.
Orienteering USA is pleased to announce its new Basic Orienteering Online curriculum. This orienteering resource has been developed as a companion platform to OUSA’s Discovering Orienteering (hardcopy & e-book).
Each lesson includes resources to understand, practice, and reflect upon the skills, techniques and processes involved in getting serious about improving navigation. Take the full course, or focus on the elements of most interest to you. Access to the online content is provided as a free member benefit to Orienteering USA members and is also offered at a premium to non-members ($15 juniors, $50 adults).
More information & registration for the Basic Orienteering Online program can be found on the Orienteering USA Education site. Links can also be found on the recently updated training page on the main OUSA website.
Slide presentation
Recording of the discussion
A number of OUSA members participated in the roundtable discussion of the strategic plan survey results on January 18, 2020. See links above for the survey results and a recording of the discussions.
Help the OUSA Board develop a Strategic Plan for OUSA.
The Board will host a roundtable at the Georgia Navigator Cup to present results from the Strategic Planning Survey and solicit responses from the membership.
Where: Covington Hampton Inn – event hotel meeting room
When: 8:00 pm, Saturday, January 18, 2020
After Saturday’s event, at 8:00 pm Tori Campbell will present the results of a survey we conducted last fall. What! You didn’t get the survey? Well this is your chance to participate because a discussion will follow the presentation. We want your input.
Teleconference info for those unable to attend in person:
Join Hangouts Meet
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Meeting ID
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Phone Numbers
(US)+1 414-622-0109
PIN: 179 460 696#
Orienteering USA is pleased to announce new technology capabilities available for its member clubs. Due to licensing stipulations, these capabilities are only available for certified nonprofit (501(c)3) clubs. All of these capabilities are provided for free. Orienteering USA will assist with setup of the capability.
Your club can have the option to use their own unique clubacronym.orienteeringusa.org subdomain and point it to their website. (A subdomain is the portion prior to the ‘.orienteeringusa.org’ portion of the URL.) This option can save you from purchasing your own domain or having to pay to add a second address to your existing domain. Some clubs currently use the ‘.us.orienteering.org’ URL for this same. Shifting to .orienteeringusa.org would keep a better continuity of websites. (e.g. eventreg.orienteeringusa.org, but ‘eventreg’ would be your club’s acronym)
A Google team drive is a shared space that allows teams (organizations) to store documents and easily search for them. It also allows all members to access the drive. This drive belongs to the entire team instead of an individual as in the personal drive.
Benefits
Limits
A Google group is a group of email addresses that can be used for a specific purpose. A google group can be configured to act as a group inbox (e.g. where a question is sent to an email address and is then distributed to multiple people instead of one) or as a contact list (e.g. an announcement is sent by a club representative to all those in the club wishing to receive those announcements.
Benefits
Limits
Clubs can also manage their own Google Calendars. Share event, meeting and training schedules or whatever is most useful for the club.
Benefits
Send an email to tech-committee@nullorienteeringusa.org containing:
For a subdomain:
For Google Groups:
Information about and applications for applying to the National Junior Program (Junior National Team and Junior Development Team) are now posted on the Junior Team page.
Note that applications for the Junior National Team are due December 15, 2019. Development Team applications are accepted throughout the year.
