Vote! This is the first time we've had our digital scavenger hunts available via YouTube. We're asking all SIJ/WJC alums to cast your votes by Friday at midnight for the best scavenger hunt video. Help your heirs win something cool!
To cast your vote, simply place a comment at the end of this piece with your vote the winning team.
For each team, you'll see their assignment and their video.
ALL GROUPS: Photograph yourself in a location featured in "National Treasure I."
Team One:
- Visit the Polish chapel inside DC's largest Catholic sanctuary, in terms of physical size.
- Eat at the world-famous Ben’s Chili Bowl restaurant.
- Visit the lobby of the hotel in which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote the almost-final draft of the “I have a dream” speech. Why else is this room famous?
- Photography a commercial airliner landing on your head in a DC public park (well, almost on your head).
- BONUS! Touch a moonrock.
Team Two:
- Take a picture of your group at the Watergate complex (find THE door?).
- Photograph yourself reading the Journalist’s Creed. Eat a real lunch nearby, for under $8 (save the receipt).
- Visit the official US monument for those who died on the Titanic.
- Your state has an official state tree. Can you find the special grove of trees in Washington, D.C., dedicated to "state trees"? Is your state tree there?
- BONUS! Find the think tank that was founded as the legal political lobby tied to Dr. James Dobson.
Team Three:
- Stand under the airplane that Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic.
- The official monument to FDR includes a nod to the power of one form of mass media. What is it? Show us.
- Eat breakfast or lunch in the official cafeteria of the US Supreme Court.
- Visit the world center for studying the life of John Paul II.
- BONUS! Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr., is part of one of the nation’s most prestigious liberal think tanks. Visit it!
I vote for team two. Nice job everyone! Wow that brought back memories. Can I come back now, pleeeeeease?
Posted by: Bridget Smith | September 09, 2008 at 03:08 PM
I go with team two. After all, you had the sound for the "Step back, doors closing."
Posted by: Matthew Cawvey | September 09, 2008 at 05:23 PM
All were well done. Hard assignment, but I like the titanic rendition, etc. in the second one. I vote for team two.
Posted by: Mimi | September 09, 2008 at 05:59 PM
I agree with these people. The middle one is probably the best thing I've ever seen in the history of ever.
Seriously.
Posted by: Marcus | September 09, 2008 at 07:34 PM
I didn't see any credit or reference to the music selected for the songs in the video (while many of the videos didn't do this, video two holds the most significance offense.)
Disqualified.
Posted by: Emily M. | September 09, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Fun assignment! My vote is for the second video.
Posted by: Melissa N. | September 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM
I liked the quick randomness of video one with the beautiful Apple music to compliment. While the other teams were certainly creative, I felt that the brevity combined with an upbeat sense of fun made number one stand out.
Posted by: Harrison Keely | September 10, 2008 at 10:30 AM
I'm gonna go with video 2.
Posted by: Kristi Moore | September 10, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Scavenger hunts as bonding rituals! Slow walking, blisters forming, sweat dripping, map confusion, metro caving. You ALL brought back GREAT memories. Kudos to Team 2 for the "finish" to their product--the names and titles and action.
See you Friday!
Posted by: Sue | September 10, 2008 at 01:02 PM
Clearly you all had a lot of fun with this, but I have to go with... TEAM 2! Tmatt- it looks like you're going to have a fun group this semester.
Posted by: Brittani Hamm | September 10, 2008 at 01:49 PM
I vote team two! WoW that brings back such great memories! I miss D.C. so much. You better treasure it.. it goes by in the blink of an eye. how bout you flight fall 2007 WJCers back now Tmatt???
Posted by: Tracey Wangler | September 10, 2008 at 04:40 PM
Team Two, for editing and font choices. Also, for some wit.
(Props to all the teams for their music selections, however. Really liked some of Team Three's photography as well.)
Posted by: jSimone | September 10, 2008 at 06:01 PM
I'll also vote for Team 2.
Welcome to D.C.!
Posted by: Tricia | September 10, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Definitely Team 2. Though I have fond memories of both Ben's Chili Bowl and the Supreme Court breakfast. Now, who can find the hidden Cuban Friendship Urn, that's my question....
Posted by: Jeremy | September 11, 2008 at 01:09 AM
Okay, I hate to be unoriginal, but team 2 did a good job.
Posted by: Erica | September 11, 2008 at 09:11 AM
My vote goes to Team Two for:
1) Not shaking the camera like you're shooting the DC version of The Blair Witch Project
2) Great opening song
3)Standing on the right
Kudos to team three for the cool photography
Posted by: Chris Moody | September 11, 2008 at 10:41 AM