The Amazing Race Around Campus

During Welcome Week, there was an event that most freshmen went to in order to learn how to navigate the campus. Each person playing was in a team of four. Each team was given an envelope that they were not allowed to open until told to so. Inside the envelope was a list of clues on one piece of paper and a table of each station on another sheet of paper. Each station had a T.A.L.O.N. waiting for the players and they were supposed to make sure that the teams were going in order of the clues and as long as they were, the T.A.L.O.N. cut the paper on their station. The teams were sent off to start the race and were told that they only had about an hour and a half to find all of the locations.

Each station was difficult to find. The clues did not say exactly where to go. They only described what the place was for. For example, one clue described that this offices is where someone goes when they need to talk to someone for help such as counseling. The answer was The Wellness Center which was easy to figure out. However, as freshman, most of the participants had no clue where the wellness center office could be found. It took a little bit of research to find out where the office was located and they all walked over to J204 to get their papers cut by the T.A.L.O.N. and then moved on to the next clue. The participants continued trying to solve each clue in the allotted time for the scavenger hunt.

When the time was up, all of the teams went back to the Campus Center Event Room and waited to hear if they won. The first place winners all got tickets to Six Flags and Hurricane Harbor. There were also prizes for second and third place, one of which was a basket of Stockton Entertainment Team gear. The winners found every clue and really learned their way around campus but even the teams that did not find them all had a great chance to learn their way around campus and where to find all different resources that they might need throughout their years at Stockton.