There is a strong distinction between the LGO program and most other MBA dual degree or just plain MBA programs. That would be the Leadership portion of the experience. While leadership can't be taught, students can be given the tools and opportunities to learn leadership. Leadership comes from experience, and we get it by the bunches. Today was no different!
It was another field trip day... see, here's the bus! Unfortunately, no yellow twinkies for us college kids (for those who are not aware, yellow twinky is slang for school bus).
After some stretching lead by Karla (not pictured)...
Some instruction from Ben...
And a (semi) group picture...
We set out for the course! It was a challenging day getting equipment and people from one end of the obstacle to the other. Just to be clear... anything painted red was off limits. If you touch the red zone, you had to start over.
And to add to the fun and challenge, some of the task had water traps. The water, as you can see, was a beautiful shade of green and full of tadpoles!
Here's Rob after climbing out of the "tadpole juice". Like him, many of us fell in, some of us even jumped in. I did neither!
The day ended with an "All Star Challenge". Each team chose a single member to join the Allstar team to attempt a challenge in front of the entire class. I reluctantly accepted my nomination, knowing that I would most likely get wet.
So the team started with a brief. Our mission was to carry ammo over a cliff. The entire team must get the ammo to its designated location. We don't know what is beyond the cliff.
The cliff was a wall, so we started by scaling the wall, unsure of what was next. Once on top of the wall, we saw this (I'm in the light blue on the left). You can tell by our body, we think it's pretty tough.
Green water!
So we try to lower someone down:
And another:
And another:
Here's the ammo coming across (I'm doing a good job of watching).
We completed the task, with a few minutes left on our clock. Although just before completion, Devon had a brush with the water. He was the last one on the chains and when trying to jump to the landing, he almost completely fell into the water. Luckily Barry swooped in an saved the day!
Fun day. Enough said.
