Rotary Cadets Challenge

The Rotary Cadets Challenge was held for the second year at the excellent Adventure Okehampton facilities on Saturday, 12th July, 2025. Two teams each from 2443 (Okehampton) ATC and Okehampton Army Cadets took part in challenges set and supervised by Adventure Okehampton instructors. The challenges comprised wall climbing, axe throwing, archery and a ‘Magic Flute' water carrying.

The Air Cadets ‘FKAWASS (male) team won the wall climb challenge with a massive 106 climbs which far outstripped the other teams’ totals. The axe throwing was won by Air Cadets ‘The Wasps’ (female) team with 9 axes in the target. FKAWASS came back to win the Archery Challenge with 176 points, but much closer margins.

The final challenge, called the ‘Magic Flute’ involved the teams transporting water in floppy buckets from a barrel to fill pipes about 10 metres away to fill it up and retrieve a yellow duck from inside it. The problem was that the pipes had holes in them that allowed the water to run out almost as fast as they were filled! The Army Cadets ‘The Wasps’ (female) team won with the most amount of water transported. However, the main attraction seemed to observers to be asking all participants to cool down on an extremely hot day!

The overall winning team was the Air Cadets FKAWASS team. Rotarian David Potter presented the Bourne Trophy to the Air Cadets for the second year, but congratulations go to all those who took part in the Challenges.

Thanks must go to Adventure Okehampton and the instructors for making this such an enjoyable day. The rivalry between the Air and Army Cadets is such that they are already looking forward to next year’s event.