Sep 1, 2026 | Challenge Suggestions, Education, Hunt Tips
A new student’s first experience on campus can shape how they feel about their college. That’s why orientation is such an important opportunity to make students feel welcome, connected, and excited about the year ahead.
One way colleges can accomplish all three is with a campus scavenger hunt, and Eventzee is the ultimate resource to get the job done!
A well-designed scavenger hunt can introduce students to campus facilities, traditions, resources, and each other—all while giving them something fun to do.
Start With Your Orientation Goals
Before creating challenges, determine what you want students to learn or accomplish through this interactive experience.
Do you want them to:
- Learn where important campus resources are?
- Meet other incoming students?
- Discover campus traditions?
- Learn about student organizations?
- Visit specific buildings?
- Interact with orientation leaders?
- Become familiar with downtown or the surrounding community?
Your goals should determine your the challenges throughout the scavenger hunt.
Turn Campus Locations Into Challenges
Once you’ve identified the locations you want students to visit, turn each one into an opportunity for interaction.
For example:
Library: Find the library and take a team photo outside.
Student Center: Locate the student center and answer a question about its services.
Mascot Statue: Find the mascot statue and recreate its pose in a photo.
Dining Hall: Visit the dining hall and complete a food-themed challenge.
Recreation Center: Find the rec center and answer a question about student fitness programs.
Suddenly, a campus tour becomes a game!
Use Different Types of Challenges
A great scavenger hunt shouldn’t require students to do the same thing repeatedly.
Eventzee supports multiple challenge types, allowing colleges to mix up the experience with:
Photo Challenges — Capture creative team photos around campus.
Video Challenges — Record short videos completing fun tasks.
GPS Challenges — Require students to physically visit specific locations.
Quiz Challenges — Test students on campus facts and traditions.
QR Code Challenges — Place codes around campus to unlock additional content.
Text Challenges — Have teams submit answers or responses.
Polls — Gather student opinions while making participation interactive.
The variety keeps the experience moving and gives different types of students different ways to participate.
Don’t Forget the Fun
Not every challenge needs to teach something.
In fact, some of the best orientation challenges may simply be designed to make students laugh.
Ask teams to recreate a famous campus photo. Have them make a short video introducing their team. Challenge them to find the strangest object on campus. The goal is to balance useful information with memorable experiences.
Build an Experience Students Will Remember
A campus scavenger hunt doesn’t have to replace traditional orientation. Instead, it can complement campus tours, presentations, welcome events, and other programming. It gives students an excuse to explore their new home while interacting with the people and places that will become part of their college experience.
With Eventzee, colleges can create customized campus scavenger hunts that combine orientation, exploration, teamwork, and fun into one interactive experience. Reach out to our team today to start planning your adventure!
Aug 27, 2026 | Challenge Suggestions, Education, Hunt Tips
Starting college is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. New students are learning campus traditions, figuring out where their classes are, meeting dozens of new people, and trying to remember an endless stream of information. Traditional orientation presentations have their place, but what if you could turn the entire orientation experience into an adventure?
With Eventzee you can develop a campus scavenger hunt to give your college a way to get students moving, exploring, collaborating, and engaging with their new surroundings from the moment they arrive.
Why Turn Orientation Into an Adventure?
College orientation isn’t just about delivering information. It’s about helping students begin to feel like they belong.
An interactive scavenger hunt can encourage students to discover important campus locations while completing fun challenges along the way. Instead of simply being told where the student center is, for example, students might have to find it, take a team photo, answer a question, or complete a challenge once they arrive.
This turns campus exploration into an experience rather than another item on an orientation checklist.
Challenges can direct students toward:
- Student centers
- Libraries
- Dining facilities
- Residence halls
- Recreation centers
- Academic buildings
- Campus landmarks
- Student organization offices
- Important administrative offices
You can also use challenges to introduce campus traditions, school history, mascots, and other pieces of your institution’s culture.
Encourage Students to Meet Each Other
One of the biggest goals of orientation is helping students make connections.
Team-based scavenger hunts naturally encourage conversation and collaboration. Students can work together to solve clues, find locations, take photos, and complete challenges.
That creates opportunities for those first conversations that can eventually turn into friendships.
Make Orientation Interactive
With Eventzee, colleges can build customized orientation experiences using challenges such as photo, video, quiz, GPS, QR code, text, poll, and more.
That means your orientation can include everything from “Find this campus landmark” to “Take a team photo with your orientation leader” to “Answer this question about school traditions.”
The result is an orientation experience designed around participation rather than passive information consumption.
Make Their First Days Memorable
Students may not remember every slide from an orientation presentation. They are much more likely to remember racing across campus with their new friends to complete a challenge or discovering a campus tradition they had never heard about.
That’s the real value of turning orientation into an adventure.
Eventzee gives colleges the tools to transform campus orientation into an interactive experience that gets students exploring, connecting, and engaging from day one. Begin planning for your next student orientation or on campus event, and reach out to the Eventzee team today!
Aug 31, 2017 | Announcements, Challenge Suggestions, Weekly Hunt
This post is part of Eventzee’s collection of photo and video challenge ideas designed for scavenger hunts and interactive events. These challenges can be completed anywhere in the world and aren’t tied to a specific venue or live event, making them perfect for virtual events, hybrid experiences, global teams, and remote participants. Use these ideas for team building activities, conferences, marketing campaigns, or standalone scavenger hunts.
- #ThrowbackThursday – Share a past picture of you on your first day of school.
- Alphabet Soup L – Find something that starts with the letter L.
- Bookworm – Take a picture of a book you’re reading.
- Bug Spray – What do you do to keep from being bitten by bugs?
- Dumb Phone – Take a picture of a phone that isn’t a smart phone.
- Gum Smacker – Creatively represent a “pet peeve” you have.
- Helping Hands – Southeast Texas was hit by a major hurricane last week and we at Team Munzee are doing everything we can to help in the relief effort. Please donate to the American Red Cross or another relief organization and upload a screenshot of your helpful efforts.
- Jellies of the Month – Creatively represent a unique monthly subscription service.
- No Rhyme Nor Reason – Take a picture of two things that rhyme with each other. Be sure to include the names of the things in the picture. For example: Cat and Hat
- No Vacancy – Take a photo at a unique hotel or motel in your area. Try and find one that isn’t a chain!
- Photo Finish – Take a photo of a professional photography studio.
- Pizza! Pizza! – Take a picture at a local pizza restaurant.
- School’s In Session – Creatively represent a parent reacting to their kid going back to school.
- Tailgating Tales – Creatively represent tailgating before a sporting event.
- Versatile Fashion – Show us the many ways you can wear a bandana.
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.
https://eventzeeapp.com/contact/
Aug 24, 2017 | Announcements, Challenge Suggestions, Weekly Hunt
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 – Share a past picture of a you with your sibling (or someone who feels like a sibling).
- A Few Of My Favorite Things – Take a picture of something you like to collect.
- Alphabet Soup K – Find something that starts with the letter K.
- Cable Cutter -Take a photo of some sort of satellite dish.
- Class of 2017 – Take a photo at a University or college. Trade and technical schools count as well.
- Clown Car – Creatively represent fitting as many people as you can into a tiny car.
- Fireman Frank – Take a photo at your local fire station.
- Honey, I Shrunk The Kids – Creatively represent what you would do with a shrink ray
- Hurricane Eventzee – Creatively represent getting caught in a whirlwind of weather! Keep safe!
- It’s a Lemon – Take a picture of a product that never works like it’s advertised.
- Retinal Camera – Creatively represent getting your vision tested.
- Super Shoveler – Take a photo creatively representing the term “Dig a hole to China.
- Towering Threshold – Take a photo of a unique door at a home or building.
- Water Under the Bridge – Take a picture crossing a bridge
- Who’s Awesome? – Share some motivational advice with us!
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.
https://eventzeeapp.com/contact/
Aug 17, 2017 | Announcements, Challenge Suggestions, Weekly Hunt
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.
- Alphabet Soup J – Find something that starts with the letter J.
- Buy Mail – Take a picture of a popular mail order catalog.
- Classy Clothing – Take a picture at a store where you would buy formal clothing.
- Eclipse Event – Creatively represent watching the eclipse.
- Feathered Flyer – Creatively represent the latest Mythological Munzee, the pegasus.
- Good Samaritan – Show us your favorite nonprofit organization.
- I Now Pronounce You… – Take a picture at a place where people might have a wedding.
- I’d Like to Buy a Vowel – Creatively represent being on a television gameshow.
- It’s Personal – Take a picture of something personalized.
- Mallrat – Take a picture at a shopping mall.
- Poor Picnic – Creatively represent something that would ruin a picnic.
- Radical Remote – Take a picture of a unique remote controller.
- Sidewalk Strut – Take a picture crossing a crosswalk.
- Tooth Fairy – Creatively represent being visited by the Tooth Fairy.
- Voluptuous Vest – Take a picture wearing a vest of some sort.
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.
https://eventzeeapp.com/contact/
Aug 10, 2017 | Announcements, Challenge Suggestions, Weekly Hunt
This post is part of Eventzee’s collection of photo and video challenge ideas designed for scavenger hunts and interactive events. These challenges can be completed anywhere in the world and aren’t tied to a specific venue or live event, making them perfect for virtual events, hybrid experiences, global teams, and remote participants. Use these ideas for team building activities, conferences, marketing campaigns, or standalone scavenger hunts.
- Alphabet Soup I ( i ) – Find something that starts with the letter I ( i )
- Bang For Your Buck – Creatively represent “stretching a dollar”.
- Book Overdue – Take a selfie inside a library.
- Couch Potato – Creatively represent the saying “Couch Potato.” Photo must include a literal potato and couch.
- FOOD FIGHT! – Creatively represent starting a food fight in the cafeteria.
- Hands-Free Hygiene – Take a photo of an electric air dryer you would use after you wash your hands.
- In Memoriam – Take a picture at a local memorial to someone or an event.
- Knock, Knock – Tell us a joke?
- Leftie – Take a picture doing something left handed.
- Planetary Protector – NASA recently put out a job listing for a new Planetary Protector. Creatively represent what this job might look like.
- Put Your Records On – Take a picture of a vinyl record.
- Rest and Relaxation – Take a picture of a product that advertises relaxation.
- Shine Bright – Snap a picture at a jewelers.
- What Would A Woodsman Do? – Go to a lumber yard or home improvement store that sells wood and building materials.
- Would You Rather? – Be covered in fur or with scales? Creatively represent your answer.
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.
https://eventzeeapp.com/contact/
