Pfadi Limmattal invited to the big AR competition at the anniversary celebration

Modern scouts like to use their smartphones. The Pfadi Limmattal also used an AR app for its 100th anniversary. With the Pfadi-Go gamean augmented reality app, the groups completed a total of sixteen posts. "We really wanted to bring in something modern, so we programmed the app. In the future, we will be able to add new posts," says Marco Musso. As a former scout leader, the 25-year-old from Dietikon is the first contact person on this afternoon.

PfadiGO game The aim of the game is to run to all the posts and solve the tasks. The time and the correctness of the answers count. 8 posts were visible in the terrain and also supervised by post persons. At the post, a QR code had to be photographed with the smartphone, which activates the post in the smartphone. 7 posts also had to be found within the terrain. The APP then automatically started the post as soon as the smartphone was close to the post sensor.

The tasks did not always prove to be easy, so that the children sometimes liked to climb the trees while the parents tried to solve the puzzles. In addition, there would be technical hurdles to overcome. "There are more problems than expected, but it's nice when the groups take it with humour, we're just not employed by Google," Musso says.

An exhibition gives insight into the history

There is also a post at the local museum in Bergdietikon. A real treasure is currently hidden there: the entire history of the Pfadi Limmattal is being shown with utensils and photographs and will be on display until March 2020. The local museum in Schlieren is also interested in the exhibition, which has a lot of attention to detail. "My father-in-law was section leader from 1947 to 1951 and is now 95 years old; we are a scouting family," Brigitte Diggelmann says. Together with Walter Diggelmann, OC president of the celebration, she spent a year researching for the exhibition. "I think we belong to the best-documented Scouts in Switzerland, and the digital data makes it easier to search the archives."

Source: limmattalerzeitung / Pfadi