In 2000, the love of geocaching began. In May, the government lifted a block on GPS signals and Dave Ulmer hid his first treasure and posted the GPS coordinates on the Internet. Many people responded to this type of 'treasure hunting'. This website grew and grew to become a company with hundreds of thousands of caches hidden all over the world. Geocaching is a perfect name for this because geo means earth and a cache is somewhere where someone hides something. Jeremy Irish took over the company and made Geocaching.com. Now, anyone can geocache.
In this unit, I learned how to use a GPS to find a specific point and how to put a point into the GPS to find it in the field. I also learned how easy or hard it can be to find a geocache. Sometimes we could find it right away or take us a while.
We found a lot of geocaches over this past few weeks. During our competition our group found two geocaches and the other group found three. I think that this is really successful because when I have done this before, it has taken a long time to find the geocache.
