Adventure Florida
Encyclopedia
Adventure Florida is a children's BBC
television programme and is broadcast on the CBBC
channel in which four British CBBC viewers children, chosen from 16,000 applicants, join four American children for the ultimate Florida adventure and four US children take part in a summer camp
in Florida
at which they learn about environmental issues and saving the world's wildlife from extinction
.They also learn about how animals live and the difficulties they face in life. The 8 children and the adults stayed together at Mzinga Lodge
). Kelly was previously on the Animal Planet
show King of the Jungle, where she won this competition. Bill is the Director of Education
at Busch Gardens
.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television programme and is broadcast on the CBBC
CBBC
CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
channel in which four British CBBC viewers children, chosen from 16,000 applicants, join four American children for the ultimate Florida adventure and four US children take part in a summer camp
Summer camp
Summer camp is a supervised program for children or teenagers conducted during the summer months in some countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer camp are known as campers....
in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
at which they learn about environmental issues and saving the world's wildlife from extinction
Extinction
In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms , normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...
.They also learn about how animals live and the difficulties they face in life. The 8 children and the adults stayed together at Mzinga Lodge
The Necklace
Each day there is a different topic like reptiles and a different word for the day such as confidence or teamwork. Whoever the team leaders think has achieved the word for the day gets to wear the necklace and enjoy a special experience (linked with the topic of the day) with someone of their choice. These are experience are incredibly unique and are often once in a lifetime experience. If two people win the necklace then they both have the special experience.Episode | Necklace Winner | Quality of the Day | Special Experience Partner |
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1 | Dylan | Endurance Endurance Endurance is the ability for a human or animal to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue. In humans, it is usually used in aerobic or anaerobic exercise... & Strength |
Matt |
2 | Amber | Listening | Samantha |
3 | Matt | Teamwork Teamwork Teamwork is action performed by a team towards a common goal. A team consists of more than one person, each of whom typically has different responsibilities.... |
Cole |
4 | Heather | Patience Patience Patience is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without acting on annoyance/anger in a negative way; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. Patience is the... |
Lindsay |
5 | Matt | Responsibility Moral responsibility Moral responsibility usually refers to the idea that a person has moral obligations in certain situations. Disobeying moral obligations, then, becomes grounds for justified punishment. Deciding what justifies punishment, if anything, is a principle concern of ethics.People who have moral... |
Andres |
6 | Cole & Heather | Behavior Behavior Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment... |
Cole & Heather |
7 | Samantha | Pride Pride Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meanings. With a negative connotation, pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments, often used synonymously with hubris... |
Amber |
8 | Andres | Opposite Opposite Opposite may refer to:* Opposite , a word that means the opposite of a word* Botany: "Opposite" is a kind of arrangement of leaves* Additive inverse, in mathematics, taking the negative of a number... |
Dylan |
9 | Samantha | Communication Communication Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast... |
Heather |
10 | Andres | Caring | Lindsay |
11 | Lindsay | Self-Confidence Self-confidence The socio-psychological concept of self-confidence relates to self-assuredness in one's personal judgment, ability, power, etc., sometimes manifested excessively.Being confident in yourself is infectious if you present yourself well, others will want to follow in your foot steps towards... |
Matt |
12 | Heather | Peace Peace Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the... |
Amber |
13 | Dylan & Andres | Passion Passion (emotion) Passion is a term applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something.... |
Dylan & Andres |
14 | No One | The necklace was not given out. | |
15 | Matt | Final Challenge | |
Kids from the USA
Camper | Hometown |
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Amber Matte | Branch, Louisiana Branch, Louisiana Branch, Louisiana is an unincorporated community in Acadia Parish located on LA-35 near the LA-35 intersection, approximately 5 miles south of the town of Church Point and 8 miles north of the City of Rayne.... |
Cole Riemer | McLean, Virginia McLean, Virginia McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census.... |
Andres Limon | San Marie, California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... |
Coraima "Lindsay" Rosario | Chicago, Illinois |
Kids from the UK
Camper | Hometown |
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Alex Willams | Southampton, England |
Warren Gonzalez Lane | Birmingham, England |
Heather Leopold | wesley chapel, Florida |
Team Leaders
Kelly Deidring and Bill Street (both from TampaTâmpa
Tâmpa may refer to several villages in Romania:* Tâmpa, a village in Băcia Commune, Hunedoara County* Tâmpa, a village in Miercurea Nirajului, Mureş County* Tâmpa, a mountain in Braşov city...
). Kelly was previously on the Animal Planet
Animal Planet
Animal Planet is an American cable tv specialty channel that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications. A high-definition simulcast of the channel launched on September 1, 2007.-History:...
show King of the Jungle, where she won this competition. Bill is the Director of Education
Director of Education
The Director of Education was a position in the Hong Kong Government, who heads the Education Department.- History:As a result of restructuring in 1983, the old Education Department was reorganised into the Education and Manpower Branch and the Education Department...
at Busch Gardens
Busch Gardens
Busch Gardens is the name of two amusement parks in the United States, owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, a division of Blackstone Group. One of the parks is in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the other is in Tampa, Florida...
.
Episodes
# | Episode Synopsis |
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1 | The 4 kids from the UK meet the 4 kids from the US. They find out what's in store for them over the next 3 weeks and learn about the Necklace. |
2 | The 8 new friends come face to face with the first of many animals they will meet during their trip. |
3 | The group meet the most famous of all the reptiles in Florida when they go canoeing on a "gator river". |
4 | The group have an early start and they also experience meeting the ocean's most feared predator. |
5 | The friends meet the manatees and get to feed and experience them. |
6 | The group learn how to become animal trainers and take part in a competition to test their team work and their ability to use a GPS system and meet rescue animals, and one of them experiences Africa's most dangerous animal. |
7 | The group have an early start. They learn that they are going to meet big cats. |
8 | The kids come face to face with a range of Arctic animals. |
9 | The group come face to face with the dolphins. |
10 | The group of friends learn about reptiles and find out which animal they've got to research. |
11 | The group get to go into a shark Shark Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago.... cage in Orlando Orlando, Florida Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States... . |
12 | The group head South into the Everglades Everglades The Everglades are subtropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee... (into the swamp Swamp A swamp is a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a large number of hammocks, or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation. The two main types of swamp are "true" or swamp... ) in alligator Alligator An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. There are two extant alligator species: the American alligator and the Chinese alligator .... territory where they plant orchids. They also hear tales from a member of the Seminole Indian tribe (Jay Osceola). They also go to Florida Keys Florida Keys The Florida Keys are a coral archipelago in southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry... . |
13 | The kids clean up the beach Beach A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones... in the Florida Keys Florida Keys The Florida Keys are a coral archipelago in southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry... and go snorkelling off the mangrove Mangrove Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics – mainly between latitudes N and S... at the tip of the Everglades Everglades The Everglades are subtropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee... . |
14 | The children are in the Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In... in the Florida Keys Florida Keys The Florida Keys are a coral archipelago in southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry... where they group see barracudas in the wild. |
15 | It's the final day for the group as they say goodbye to their friends and Mzinga Lodge, however there is still one more challenge - who has put together the best presentation? |