Scavenger Hunt for RIT Students planned at Imagine RIT

There’s more to this year’s Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival than nearly 400 amazing exhibits and performances. There’s also a scavenger hunt, which will award three RIT students a $100 Tiger Bucks prize, directly uploaded to their IDs.

For the first time, the Student Scavenger Hunt for RIT Students will be offered during the popular festival. Students will be given a clue on the Imagine RIT website when the event begins at 10 a.m., April 27. The clue will send the hunters looking for the exhibit alluded to in the clue, by using the searchable map and list of exhibits on the website.

A QR code will be displayed at the exhibit. Hunters will need to take a selfie next to the code or exhibit to prove they have found it. The code will then give them the clue to the next exhibit.

Once all five selected exhibits and their QR codes have been found and photos taken, the students should register for the prizes at the location given in the final clue.

“Although we have more than 2,800 students already involved with the festival with their exhibits or performances, we wanted to find a fun and creative way to encourage our other students to see what their peers are doing, and to see the sheer expanse of the festival,” said Ann Ielapi, the festival’s senior director. “Here’s a hint: the five clues will take them to five different buildings.”

The hunt is available only to current RIT students and will end at 5 p.m. when the festival ends. Winners will be selected at random from those who completed the hunt and register at the location given in the final clue.

“You can search on your own, or with friends,” Ielapi said. “Good luck, and have fun!”

Students from Technically Speaking, a student-run advertising and public relations agency, plan to help spread the word on campus about the scavenger hunt.