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Text Message Relay

Requires

• small cards or sheets from a notepad
• Markers
• Large sheet of paper, poster sized, one per team
  

Divide into teams of 3 to 6 – two bigger teams are more fun than 3 or four smaller!

Prepare, or have teams prepare, a telephone number keypad per team, with numbers and letters, drawn large on the poster sized sheet of paper – artistic flair at their or your discretion

Ask each girl come up with two or three 4- to 6-letter words each, written large, each on an index card or notepad sheet.

Put up the keyboard posters at chest height on a wall

Split the words at random into two or three rounds, and place all the words for a given round up on the wall to be visible to people at the posters

Review the text messaging concept and how each letter relates to the number key, and the second or third letters on the key are transmitted by two or three taps on the key respectively.

A referee should oversee the play at the poster, one per team – details of play, penalties, retakes, etc. however you like.

Teams line up and first members run up, tap in their text message word, run back and tag up the next member who does the next word and so on.

Plays like any relay of bygone days, but with a whole new technology to play with, and meets program goals looking at codes, and communication methods.

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