Educational Agendas

All Educational programs led by MICEpro are carried under the guidance of our experienced team and are specially designed for all institutional groups. We have been organizing school trips with a specialized school wing for Micepro named as “Himalayan Vagabond Adventures”, having introduced over 2500 children to the outdoors, since its inception in July 2015.

All the programs are meant to inculcate among the students, the modern learning of their inn & around of the environment. All our programs focus light on various environmental issues which are the present environmental challenges. Through our programs we try to raise awareness among the people engaged with us in the operation of these programs.

Our school programs are blend of soft adventure, cultural and heritage programs, environmental education, experiential learning trips and visit to organic farms etc.

Summer Camps

Day 01 – Arrival at Camp Venue briefing (about the native place and surrounding, do’s & don’ts during the course). – Evening tea – An acclimatization walk in the nearby village. – Dinner and overnight in the Hotel

Day 02 – Breakfast – Learn about mountaineering equipments and gears – Interaction session with mountaineers/ outdoor instructors – Post lunch, guided visit to nearby places and drive back to camp – Evening lecture on Camping And Mountain Manners – Dinner and overnight in the Wilderness Camp

Day 03 – Early morning wakeup call followed by morning exercises – Post breakfast we go for an exciting session of river crossing / Valley crossing – Lunch at the camp. Post lunch Lecture on Mountain Hazards – After evening Tea Team Building Games – Dinner around the merry camp fire. Overnight in the camp

Day 04 – Early morning wakeup call followed by morning exercises – Hike to surrounding hill with packed Lunch – Dinner around the merry campfire – Overnight in the camp

Day 05 – Early morning wakeup call followed by morning exercises – Post breakfast we go for an exciting session of Rappelling – Post Lunch lecture on Survival In The Mountains – Surprise activity in the evening – Dinner around the merry campfire – Overnight in the camp

Day 06 – After early breakfast we go for a height gain. In height gain we attain maximum height by trekking in the mountain. – Evening back to the camp – Dinner around the merry camp fire. Overnight in the camp

Day 7 – After breakfast sightseeing and explore the local market – Evening board the bus and return back to home

Leadership Development Camps

Core concept:
During the entire course you all will learn how to adjust in adverse conditions in the limited resources provided. In wilderness or outdoors we cannot expect for the kind of luxury that we usually get at our homes. Being in the outdoors, means to bring you out of your comfort zone. You don’t tend to get the same sort of comfort that you usually get. Outdoors means to make lesser use of limited resources. Outdoor is basically a place where we get challenges in front of us because it’s a new place, new environment, and new people. We can also find out what our strengths and weaknesses are. We learn to push ourselves beyond our limits, our physical strength and mental strength. We learn to work as a team.

Objective:
The objective of LDC is to
– Strengthen confidence and self reliance – Develop team spirit – Push ourselves beyond our limits – Overcome though fear – Gain awareness about environment and issue that are degrading our natural resource – Learn basic outdoor skill like camping, tent pitching, rope knots, basic cooking, survival and many more

Leadership:
– This trait has defined the course of nation on a large scale and families at the unitary level. Leadership is required at all levels and all areas. Grooming leaders for the future thus becomes the responsibility of every parents, teachers, schools, organizations and hence Micepro-HVA programs. – The program focuses on empowering participants with three important qualities to build leadership instincts in them. These comprises:- – POWER: how to harness and use it – People skills: how to communicate and mobilize people – Problem solving: resolve issues and bring order to an event.

Activity plan:
– LDC activities are entertaining, challenging, and creative and will help introduce participants to tough situations. – Participants will be introduced to basic survival and rescue techniques in the outdoors – Command and group tasks will encourage students to take leadership roles and execute the assigned tasks

The program is split into two sections: Base camp – 4 days, Higher camp – 3 days

Salient activities:

Physical fitness
Wilderness trekking
Rock climbing
Rappelling
River crossing
Group & command tasks
Basic outdoor education; Tent pitching/rope knots/ Adventure equipment intro
Night survival/rescue
Basic First Aid
Community service
Management Skills

Wilderness Survival Programs

Age Group: 12yrs-17 yrs

Wilderness Survival Programs are designed to teach children about the basic necessities of life and how to be comfortable in outdoors even when you don’t have any resource with you. It teaches about all the safety measures that one should take while being in outdoors. It makes them tough and helps them to face every situation of life with courage.

Objectives:
– To learn survival skills – To learn how to make improvised shelters – How to light fire – How to survive in nominal resources – To become mentally tough – Knowledge about flora and fauna

Programme content:
– Backpacking – Jungle trek – Navigation – River crossing – Making own shelter – Cooking own food – Lighting fire

Duration of the programme:
Camp: 3 nights/4 days. Trek exp.: 2 nights/3 days

The following topics will be covered:

Map making, Map reading, Familiarizing the trail
Knot tying + applications
Know for Important Camping material
Wilderness tools
Flora identification and uses
Emergency shelter building
Choosing a campsite
Fire building (what type of fire for different situations)
Cooking in the wild safety planning
Basic first aid
Last but not least “Leave No Trace”/Trail etiquette

Walking Kit

Personal First Aid kit/medicines/sticking plasters/blister treatments Oral
Re-hydration Solution sachets are good to combat loss of sugars and salt (not that we anticipate this to be a risk on our holidays).
Water flask but not a breakable thermos.
Camera (optional and on your own risk of loss)
Penknife (Swiss army, Leatherman etc)
Sun screen
A walking stick
Torch and spare batteries: a head mounted (“Miner’s Lamp) torch is very good
An altimeter or small GPS can add interest to the walks.
“Wet wipes”, tissues and toilet roll
A small notebook and pen/pencil for notes.
Binoculars, if you like bird watching of natural beauty (on your own risk of loss)

International Outreach Program (IOP) / Exchange Program

International Outreach Programs which are also known as Student Exchange Programs provides the students an opportunity to study in a different country and environment experiencing the history and culture of another country.

The term “exchange” means that a partner institution accepts a student, but does not necessarily mean that the students have to find a counterpart from the other institution with whom to exchange.

An exchange student lives in the host country for a period of 6 to 10 months and attends the school/college/university of that country. The motive of this program is to increase the understanding and tolerance of other cultures, as well as improving their language skills and broadening their social horizons.

Objectives
The objective of the program is to expose the students of Tourism professional universities and colleges to the real complex world of employment. It will be a 6 days program which will be completely focused on the utility for job, Industry expectations from the students, self-employment and empowerment of the students. Team of experienced researcher and trade experts will take the practical sessions on email writing, market identification, sales and marketing techniques used in tourism industry, trade secrets and some management games to keep them busy with their moral up in regards to the reall complexity of the employment.

This is a general practice of any tourism professional university to equip the student with a certificate/diploma/degree along with the field trips. We urge the tourism professional universities to accept the need of offering a wide range of career-oriented programs in various related areas.

Location: Selected locations of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Meals: All meals, Mineral water bottles, tea/coffee/juices and snacks at the camp.

Fun and learning session will include:
Camping, First hand Information on the complexity of the trade by the industry specialists, Management games, Session on industry expectation from the students, White water rafting, Trekking, Rock climbing, Rappelling, Stream crossing, Bird watching, Yoga, Natures walk etc.

Day 1 – Arrival at the camp Venue and orientation briefing by the Camp Manager – followed by tents allotment – Lunch – Evening tea/coffee and snacks at the camp. Evening at leisure – An open discussion on IOP by the trade expert during the campfire. – Dinner and overnight at camp

Day 2 – Early morning wakeup call followed by yoga session by professional yoga Guru, Breakfast at the camp. – Post breakfast, management games session under the supervision of management guru i.e., Save the World, Human Dragon, Curtain Down, Acid walk etc – Post lunch, an unusual session on “Expectation of the Industry from the student” by the trade expert. This session will also cover the aspect of being out from the comfort zone and real complex world of employment. – Evening tea/ coffee and snacks at the camp – Post evening tea, play volleyball, badminton and cricket etc. – Campfire followed by dinner. – Overnight at camp

Day 3 – Early morning wake-up call followed by nature walk with in-house naturalist. – Post breakfast; know about safety briefing and leave exciting session of Rafting. – We encounter the rapids like, Return to center, Rollercoaster, T-off, Golf course & clubhouse etc. Students can also enjoy their hands at the exciting game of cliff jump and body surfing etc. Drive back to camp for lunch. – Post Lunch, reach the site located for rock climbing and rappelling. The activities are carried under the strict supervision of our qualified instructors. Drive back to camp for evening tea coffee and snacks. – Post tea, there will be an exciting session of treasure hunt with the help of maps and compass at the campsite. – Campfire followed by dinner. Operation experts will also take a session on “Fire drill‟ at night. – Overnight at Camp

Day 4 – Early morning wake – up call followed by warm-up exercises. – Post breakfast, practical session on sales and marketing from the industry expert. – Post lunch, practical session on effective e-mail writing, operation challenges and accounts by the operation director. – Evening tea/coffee and snacks followed by river crossing and stream pooling session. – Camp fire and dinner at the campsite. – Overnight at camp

Day 5 – Early morning wake-up call followed by warm up exercises. – Post breakfast an open classroom session on wilderness survival. This session will thoroughly cover all aspects of wilderness survival, emergency kits, Map reading, knot tying, incident response and will also serve as preparation for the field session. – After the session, we will leave for a full day trek under the strict supervision of our qualified instructors. After a short break, continue the gradual trek ascent. – The session, survival night will be an overnight trip into a forested area. Participants will be provided with Dom tents, sleeping bags, mattresses and dry fruits during the survival night. – Learning’s “The idea of the program is to know how you and your hiking partners will deal with an unexpected night out. This session will truly allow you to experience a night out in the local mountains with minimum survival gear. – Overnight in Dom tents

Day 6 – Early morning wake up call. Students will descend down to the camp and course will finish at around 8.00 am. Breakfast at the camp. – Post breakfast, management games by the Management Guru. – Lunch at camp. – Post lunch a feedback session on IOP followed by a painting session on the learning’s. – Post tea, enjoy the local sightseeing and visit the nearest market. – Campfire and celebration dinner. – Overnight at camp

Day 7 – Breakfast at camp, post breakfast, time to pack your memories and luggage with packed lunch and depart for onward destination.

Outdoors give individuals an exceptional opportunity to develop ability in themselves which one would need in life to lead on all frontiers. During the camping and outdoor education programs our team professionals aim at:

Enhancing the student’s self-confidence and self belief
Nurturing students identity and personality
Developing social skills and sense of companionship
Developing a sense of excitement and urge to live life to the fullest
Inducing the sense of accountability for themselves and others by using their time constructively and participating in camp duties that benefits the whole school camp community.
Encouraging students to explore and engage in stimulating activities in the outdoors that fosters an enjoyment of learning and an appreciation of the natural world.
Develop students self esteem by encouraging individuals to overcome personal and group challenges that have positive learning outcomes.
Develop the coordination and cooperation spirit
Provide an opportunity for leadership and personal growth.

Educational Agendas