Well it’s been nearly a week since Eventzee staff members Cody and Dylan returned from Austin, TX while attending the TCEA 2016 Convention and Expo, and we’ve been hitting the ground running. We had a great turnout for our photo scavenger hunts and everyone seemed to have a ton of fun.
From chasing down people in unique hats, to spelling out TCEA with their bodies, we kept the players moving and adventuring through the conference halls. Thank you to all who played and thank you to all the vendors who participated as stops in our scavenger hunt.
From a business perspective, the event was a home run. We met so many passionate educators who had all sorts of ideas on how to use Eventzee in the classroom. Like we told many of you, many times, at the end of the day the Eventzee staff are not educators, so the success of our product has to come from those who work with students every day. From language teachers using scavenger hunts for live action vocabulary training to chemistry classes using it to train on lab equipment, Eventzee EDU’s customizability makes it perfect for any situation.
A HUGE thank you is in order for everyone involved in making TCEA a success, but especially to Michelle Phillips and Carl Hooker.
Michelle, the Instructional Technology Specialist for Prosper ISD, was the first person to suggest we use Eventzee as an educational tool and she has been working with us since then to develop a safe, fun product that’s easy to use within the classroom. Michelle and Prosper ISD have played an active role in testing Eventzee EDU and we’re excited to continue to move forward with them. Congrats to Michelle for also being nominated as ITS of The Year at TCEA 16’s Educator Awards! Follow Michelle on her website EdTech In Action– you won’t regret it!
Carl is the Director of Innovation & Digital Learning in the Eanes Independent School District and the founder of the learning festival ipadpalooza. Carl was actually one of the first clients Eventzee connected with and he has been a huge proponent for our product at his ipadpalooza events worldwide. An educator himself, Carl is constantly pushing for a strong educational shift with technology integration. You should also follow his blog “HookeED on Innovation” to learn more!
Once again, we had a great time at #TCEA16 but we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Didn’t catch us at booth #224? Well that’s OK. Check out blogger Tim Holt’s interview he did at our booth with Eventzee Director of Operations, Dylan Derryberry.
Need inspiration for photo and video challenge ideas that work anywhere? These scavenger hunt ideas are built to spark creativity and boost engagement for participants around the globe. Since the challenges aren’t tied to a specific location or event, they’re ideal for virtual scavenger hunts, hybrid events, remote team building, and conferences. Each challenge can be adapted to fit your audience, timeline, and event goals.
#ThrowbackThursday – Thursday is National Friends Day so share a past pic of you and your friends.
Cheat Meal – Take a photo of the meal or food you just can’t help but eat- even if it’s really bad for you.
Chocolatier – Take a photo at a local candy/chocolate shop
Eventzee EDU – We’re currently at TCEA showing off Eventzee EDU- so creatively represent education in support.
Faux Screenshots – We don’t usually allow screenshots in Eventzee, but create a large cardboard cutout of a smartphone and pose behind it like you’re in a photo. Get creative!
High Flying – Creatively represent flying a plane. Whether you’re a pilot or a passenger- you decide.
I’ll Be Bach – Creatively represent classical music.
Mirror, Mirror – Take a photo of a unique mirror.
Open Parking – Find a parking lot without a single car in it.
Opposites Attract – Write “Eventzee” with your non-dominant hand.
Sculptor – Sculpt something out of a substance other can clay! No, Play Dough doesn’t count either. Get creative!
Slippin’ and Slidin’ – Find a slide at a playground and take the plunge.
Social Mediums – Creatively represent either the Facebook, Twitter or Instagram icons.
Topsy Turvy – Wear your clothes backwards!
YOU SHALL NOT PASS! – Take a photo of an old iron gate.
Want to turn these photo and video challenge ideas into an engaging scavenger hunt for your next event? Contact the Eventzee team to learn how our platform supports virtual, hybrid, and in-person events around the world.
We may be busy showing off Eventzee EDU at #TCEA16, but that doesn’t mean we can’t show some love to our Weekend Warriors! We’re proud to announce that we have extended our Pioneers of Gold line for earning overall Eventzee points.
The best way to achieve these badges is to join the free Weekend Photo Scavenger Hunts hosted by Eventzee each weekend. These worldwide hunts run from Thursdays to Sundays with clues going live at 3 PM MHQ time. Your photo will be either approved or rejected and you will earn points based on your submissions.
To join these hunts just find the Weekend Warriors event on the Eventzee in-app calendar and RSVP. If you’re interested in hosting your own Eventzee hunt please contacteventzee@munzee.com and we’ll get you set up with the right package!
Scavenger hunts have always been a fun way to interact with others and support camaraderie, but we’ve moved past the limitations of pen and paper. Eventzee takes scavenger hunts to a whole new level by supporting worldwide events and new ways to interact with players. While Eventzee makes it easy to host your own scavenger hunt, it’s up to YOU to make it memorable. So if you’re considering putting on your own, here’s a few tips to get you started.
Every student learns differently, but all can make use of the fun and unique learning experience of our Eventzee education program. Digital Scavenger Hunts combine effective use of technology with higher level questioning while engaging students in fun, creative ways.
Bring the classroom into the real world with Eventzee!
Formative Assessment with instant feedback for teachers.
Engages students in making real world connections to curriculum.
Creates active learners.
Totally customizable, Eventzee combines creativity with active learning through scavenger hunts. Check out what people are saying about Eventzee!
Denton ISD | Event: Denton TIA “Technology In Action” Conference
Eventzee offered us another dimension of engagement with attendees at our technology conference. We were able to drive traffic to specific areas of focus at our conference, enhancing the experience for everyone involved.
We were also able to, through the use of photo scavenger hunts, gamify self-reflection about new learning by encouraging attendees to share their learning through pictures. That was a huge game-changer for some of our attendees.
– Ross Garison, Coordinator of Instructional Technology @ Denton ISD
Prosper ISD | Event: Multiple Events
Eventzee has been used in our 7th/8th grade ELAR classes as a semester review and to learn about an author’s life. It has also been used by our middle school Photojournalism classes as they learn about the different photo composition techniques.
Our Fashion Design and Marketing teacher used it on a field trip to North Park Mall to assess student’s learning in a real world environment. A 4th grade math teacher took his kids on a Division Hunt. 8th grade history used it to assess the understanding of the 7 principles of our Constitution. 7th grade ELAR took her kids on a mythology hunt.
Kids are engaged in higher level thinking skills as they connect their learning to real world examples. Teachers can provide instant feedback. It is a great formative assessment tool. Teachers can differentiate amount student or group submissions based on level of understanding.
Region 10 | Event: 21st Annual Region 10 Technology Conference
The Eventzee Crew helped run the event since we had over 500 participants at the conference. They were an awesome crew with their fun, bright suits and amazing personalities! Our goal for this event was for our participants (Educators in the Region 10 ESC area in Texas) to have some fun mixed in with their full day of learning and for them to see how this type of technology integration could be used in the classroom.
From the feedback we received, many districts determined that Eventzee was something they could take back to their students and use in the classroom. Eventzee is a wonderful tool to use in both the classroom as well as a professional learning environment. Two thumbs up!!
–Lori Aden, Ed. D. Region 10 Distance Learning Consultant
Now that you have some ideas about how to start your Eventzee scavenger hunt, go out and make it happen! If you’re interested in hosting an Eventzee event, sponsoring an official Eventzee photo hunt or just curious about what we can do reach out to us at eventzee@munzee.com.
Eventzee is turning 1 year old and YOU’RE INVITED! A year has come and gone and things have changed so much. We’re hosting an Eventzee themed birthday scavenger hunt in celebration of the milestone and in lieu of our Weekend Warriors hunt.
Two of our clues this week require you to download and print out a file. You can find those file below: Flat Bob Printout Eventzee Flyer
#ThrowBackThursday – Scroll through your gallery and take a photo of the very first Eventzee photo you ever took!
Birthday Suit – No, not THAT kind of birthday suit. Dress Flat Bob in his best attire- it’s a big day for him! You can find the Flat Bob design on the Eventzee blog.
Cards Made With Care – Make Eventzee a birthday card!
Cheers! – Raise a glass of your favorite beverage to a successful first year!
Have Your Cake, And Eat It To – Last week it was pie, this week it’s cake. We probably need to cut back on the baked goods, but oh well! Take a photo of a birthday cake with blue icing.
Logo Logistics – Recreate the Eventzee logo using random household items. Be creative, so no paint, drawings, printouts etc.
Make A Wish! – Blow out a candle and make a wish!
Midas Touch – Every week our players go for gold, but let’s get a little literal. Take a photo of something gold!
One For The Money – It’s our 1st birthday so find the number “1” somewhere in public. A sign, license plate, address, whatever. It just has to be in public.
Origami – The traditional gift on a 1st anniversary is paper, so create something spectacular!
Party Animals – Take a photo representing one of the Party Animals. Either a flamingo, serpent or giraffe.
Party Place – Take a photo at a location or business that you might celebrate a birthday at. Make sure the name/type of business is written somewhere in the photo.
SURPRISE! – If you were to throw a surprise party, where would you hide?
Snap Shot – Take a photo of a camera that uses film.
Spread The Word… Some More! – Print out the Eventzee flyer and place it in a local coffee shop, bulletin board, etc. Hey it’s our birthday, what’s wrong with a little publicity? You can find the flyer printout on the Eventzee blog.
SURPRISE! A year ago today (January 26, 2015) we held our first public photo scavenger hunt! Things have certainly changed a lot since then, but what better way to kickoff our birthday week than to recreate our first hunt!
The clues you’ll see (a whopping 46 clues- What were we thinking?!) are the exact same clues we released a year ago today. Although back then we released new clues each day, this time we’re releasing all of the clues at once and you’ll have all month to submit the photos.
You’ll have through Tuesday February 23rd at 12 PM CST to submit clues for this hunt.
Those who participate (have at least one photo approved) will get a unique retro Eventzee badge featuring the initial logo design we were going to use. Like we said earlier, a lot has changed since we first thought up Eventzee- including the logo. Back then QR code scavenger hunts were going to be the main focus of Eventzee, thus the QR based calendar image.
The original Eventzee logo design.
The top 3 winners will also be awarded gift cards to the new Munzee inc. store where you can buy some sweet Eventzee apparel as well as a everything for Munzee, Runzee and Wallabee. Good luck and prepare for a busy week! Our Weekend Warriors 45 hunt will go on as planned as well!
Clues 1-46:
Tower of Books: Arrange a stack of books from top to bottom with words in the title to say “I love this photo scavenger hunt”.
Black and White: Find a black automobile parked next to a white automobile
Water Bottle Bowling: Setup 10 bottles of water as if they were bowling pins (in correct shape)
Fly your Flag: 3 or more flags on flagpoles next to each other
Fish Eyes: Clear picture of more than 10 fish with #eventzee included in the picture
2 Bald Men: 2 bald men engaged in conversation
Up in the sky: It’s a bird or a plane
Movie: Go to the local theater/cinema and take a pic of an upcoming movie poster
Good Fortune: Open a fortune cookie and share your good fortune with us. Must show cookie, fortune, and write Eventzee on fortune.
Millennium Coin: Find a coin from the year 2000
Historical: Picture of a historical marker or building built before 1900.
Going Postal: Envelope addressed to Eventzee Headquarters
Grafitti: Find some local spray paint “art”. *DO NOT CREATE YOUR OWN*
Cassette Tape: Do you still listen to cassettes? Show us your favorite.
Breakfast Food: On a plate or in a bowl? Show us your breakfast.
Mind your business: Any business card
Who is that masked man? Selfie wearing a mask
Good sport: Balance 3 pieces of sporting equipment on your hand
Bobble Head: Picture of a bobble head figure
Twinkle Twinkle: Something star shaped (not hand drawn)
Stained Glass: Picture of building with stained glass
Bill: Picture of a person standing on a bench holding a bill
Light a candle:
Foodie Magazine Day: Picture of a food magazine cover with #eventzee note on it
Spread the word: Picture of your screen of you spreading the word on social media about #Eventzee (private group posts not allowed)
What about Bob? Photo of a man with a beard and a hat on backward
Superhero Action Figure:
Bottle of soda:
Take out menu: Menu from a restaurant with delivery service
Dear Diary: Today I started playing a new game…
Macaroni Art: What can you create with macaroni? Include #eventzee somewhere in the picture.
In the Shadows: Shadow puppets are good friends.
Sleeping Cat: Bonus points for wearing a hat
Musical: Play a musical instrument
Toner: We need a spare toner cartridge.
Water Balloon Fight: Take a picture of a full water balloon
Hour:Find an analog clock that shows the time with the long hand pointing at 12
Country Colors: Represent Your Country! Take a picture of somebody wearing the colors of your country.
Blue Light Special: Where can you find a blue light that’s turned on?
Old School Gamer: Take a picture of a video game console that came out BEFORE the year 2000. Include a piece of paper that says #throwbackthursday
Checkmate
Royal Flush
Finger ‘stache
Prehistoric
Medieval
License Plate: with “Z” included (must be on automobile)
Scavenger hunts have always been a fun way to interact with others and support camaraderie, but we’ve moved past the limitations of pen and paper. Eventzee takes scavenger hunts to a whole new level by supporting worldwide events and new ways to interact with players. While Eventzee makes it easy to host your own scavenger hunt, it’s up to YOU to make it memorable. So if you’re considering putting on your own, here’s a few tips to get you started.
Although Eventzee is great for conferences, get-togethers and training sessions, scavenger hunts can also be great for long term marketing, loyalty programs and more. Whether you want to set up a historical tour in your hometown, partner with other businesses for a discount program or simply offer an ongoing activity for customers, we’ve got you covered.
Long term scavenger hunts, often taking place over a month or throughout a season, can require a bit more setup and upkeep. If you choose to use a scavenger hunt for long term use, here are a couple things to consider when setting the hunt up.
Who?
Is this an educational hunt for young adults to learn more about their environment? Is it a joint pub crawl between various bars in your area? As with all marketing it’s important to know which demographic you are aiming for and plan accordingly. If your intent is to educate children, then they will need their parents’ devices to play. If this is more of a long running social engagement for young adults, you will need to advertise in the correct places. Knowing your audience will not only help when marketing, but can also be vital to your planning process.
What?
Eventzee has a wide variety of features that can be useful in long term hunts. QR Codes can be tied to quizzes or messages so that upon scanning players can learn about the history of a business, trivia, etc. You can also tag each of your QR clues to a GPS location to view a map of all locations within the hunt. Photo clues are fun, but with long term hunts you might want to make use of Eventzee’s automatic approval feature so you don’t have a monthlong backlog of photos to approve. A long term photo hunt could also make use of gallery slideshows for a fun collection of customer photos to be displayed on a monitor.
When?
The length of your scavenger hunt depends on what you hope to accomplish. If you want to encourage customers to come back weekly or daily to take part in new clues, then you will need to keep the hunt accessible during store hours only. If you want to host a historical tour of buildings, you will need to have the QR codes displayed in a easy to find public area so people can play at anytime of day. You also don’t want a hunt to last too long and risk losing interest of players so remember to keep things fresh.
Where?
Long term hunts can be used in a variety of ways, most commonly these types of hunts use multiple locations around your town or city. This is beneficial especially for tourism groups or community outreach organizations to drive traffic to significant areas. Groups of small businesses looking to support one another can also make great use of Eventzee to drive customers to shopping areas by offering discounts to people playing the scavenger hunt. A single business could also find benefit from a long term hunt by releasing new clues at different days to encourage repeat business.
Why?
Sure, it seems like a simple enough question, but why exactly do you want to host a long term event over a quick one or two day event? What are you hoping to accomplish? It’s important to figure out why a long term hunt would be ideal so you know what your end goal is. If you want to build business loyalty then your clues need to reflect that. If you want to use Eventzee as a tool for gathering marketing and social media materials like photos, then plan out the photos you ideally want and implement them in your clue descriptions. We want you to make the most of our product, so it’s important that we help you achieve your goals in the most successful way possible.
How?
How can you go about setting up your own longterm scavenger hunt? That’s the easy part. Contact us today! We can answer more of your questions, set you up with a demo and more. Email us at eventzee@munzee.com to find out more.
Now that you have some ideas about how to start your Eventzee scavenger hunt, go out and make it happen! If you’re interested in hosting an Eventzee event, sponsoring an official Eventzee photo hunt or just curious about what we can do, check out www.eventzeeapp.com.
Looking for engaging photo or video challenge ideas for your next event? These scavenger hunt–style challenges are designed to encourage creativity and participation and can be completed anywhere in the world. Because they aren’t tied to a specific location, venue, or live event, they work well for virtual events, hybrid experiences, conferences, and team-building activities. Use these ideas as inspiration or customize them to fit your event’s theme and engagement goals.
Airspace Alignment – The month 5 planets have aligned in a very rare way. Creatively represent the 5 planets that have aligned. Be sure to include planet names!
Clockstoppers – Creatively represent one of the new Clockstopper Eventzee badges.
I Spy- i – Find the letter “i” formed in architecture, nature, etc. To shake things up, it must be a lowercase “i”.
In Stiches – Find a piece of clothing/hat that has been embroidered.
Kooky Khakis – Take a photo wearing crazy colored or patterned pants.
Mother May I? – Creatively represent something your mother wouldn’t allow. Include what rule you’re breaking written somewhere in the photo..
Name Game – Find something that rhymes with either your first or last name. Include both your name and the name of the item somewhere in the photo.
Pie Five – Saturday is National Pie day! Bake us your favorite pie!
Pooch Park – Take a photo at a dog park.
Raster Repair – Take a photo at a computer repair shop.
Retired Reading – Find a book that was originally published before 1950. Must be the physical book and include the year of publication, but does not have to be an original copy.
See With Your Hands – Find something written in braille and take a photo of it.
That’s How We Roll – Take a photo of something rolling.
Top Down – Go to a car dealership and take a photo of a convertible car.
Would You Rather – Eat ice cream in the snow or drink hot chocolate on the beach? Be creative!
Want to turn these photo and video challenge ideas into an engaging scavenger hunt for your next event? Contact the Eventzee team to learn how our platform supports virtual, hybrid, and in-person events around the world.
We are proud to announce that a new line of badges have been released based on your completion time of Eventzee scavenger hunts. The Clockstoppers line has been created with the intent of awarding how quickly (or sometimes slowly) it takes you to complete a hunt. While we always encourage creativity, there are many ways to play Eventzee and one of those is fast.
THE CLOCKSTOPPERS LINE:
The trick with these badges though is that simply finishing the hunt in one hour will not earn you all three badges. Your submission time for all clues has to be within the correct timeframe for each specific badge. So if you finish a hunt in 2 hour and 30 minutes, you will earn the Alarm Clock, but not the others.
It will take careful planning for these badges, because if even one of your submissions is declined by an approver it could inflate your submission time by the time you resubmit. You can see your current submission time on the event leaderboard. This can be found by going to the specific event’s gallery and clicking the leaderboard link. Remember that your submission time is the amount of time between your first and last submission. In order to earn these badges you will have to COMPLETE ALL CLUES for the hunt in the specified time frame.
These badges can be earned in any Eventzee event including our free weekend photo scavenger hunts, Munzee events, and both photo and QR code hunts. Badges will be awarded 24 hours after the hunt has ended. These badges are also retroactive, so if you have completed a hunt in one of these time frames before you will be credited the badge.
Remember the best way to get all the badges is to play in multiple hunts, so join our free photo hunts each week. Our Weekend Warriors photo hunts are every weekend and completely free for anyone to play. 15 clues go live every Thursday at 3 PM CST and you have until Sunday at 3 PM CST to complete the clues.
In “Eventzee Exposure” we look at testimonials from happy clients who have hosted their own Scavenger Hunts. Our users’ experience is very important to us, so when things go off without a hitch we want to cheer about it. If you’d be interested in sharing your Eventzee experience please reach out to iloveyou@munzee.com!
Host: CommSoft
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Event Breakdown:
CommSoft, a software company in Northeast NY, utilized the Eventzee program for a Scavenger Hunt as part of their yearly Users’ Conference. CommSoft has users from all over the country and once a year they host a 3 day conference filled with classes, networking and extracurricular events. One such evening event was an Eventzee Scavenger Hunt in Boulder, Colorado which included the establishments on and near the Pearl Street Marketplace. They had 14 teams comprised of CommSoft personnel and conference attendees as well as a “command center” back at the conference hotel where they approved photos and had the leaderboard posted.
Testimonial:
“Having the Eventzee software for both our participants and for me as the admin back at the command center was essential to the success of this event. Both the app and admin portal were easy to configure and utilize. I only had limited time to get my CommSoft personnel up to speed on using the app due to our scheduling (approximately an hour…) and they picked it up immediately. The folks who stayed back at the command center loved watching the pictures coming in and tracking the action via the leaderboard.
We ran a scavenger hunt at a previous conference but did it all “by hand”. We handed out paper lists of the hunt items and had the teams text the photos to one person at the command center as they went along. The pictures arrived in a crazy frenzy and we had no good way to go through them and segment them by team etc. In the end we were really unable to track it all..it was a mess. Using Eventzee was like night and day from our previous experience. It made it so easy to track that I actually had time to enjoy the photos as they were coming in rather than just trying to track them. And it made it so much easier to tally the results as it was all within the system itself. No need to keep track of points manually. Finally, it gave us more of a “high tech” look than handing out a bunch of papers and pens. We are a software company too after all. The Eventzee team was so easy to work with from start to finish and even including the evening of our event. They were there for us if we needed them (though we didn’t) which was a great comfort.”
–Laura Knussman, Manager of Marketing and Product Management, CommSoft
Photo Clue Examples:
Tunnel Vision- Find another team and form a “high five tunnel” with a passerby (not a conference attendee) running down the middle.
Masonry- Take a photo of a lineup of mason jars filled with elixirs.
Cyclical- Find the sign made from a major bicycle part.
All I Got Was This T-Shirt- Find three people wearing t-shirts with city names on them but they are all different cities
Full House- Take a photo of your entire team playing poker.
Ballin’ – Photo of a Ball of Twine bigger than a basketball.
Photo Examples:
About CommSoft: For 30 years CommSoft has been an industry-leading software development organization. Their end-to-end billing and OSS software suite can cover a myriad of voice, video, data, and wireless services from a common platform. They have served over 50 communication companies by providing integrated and automated telecom software solutions. Among their strengths is an open architecture and expansive library that can integrate seamlessly with other business services and network infrastructures.
