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!
