Fri, September 26, 2014 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. free. OrienTREEing Race
Friday, Sept 25, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Brought to you by the Forestry Graduate Student Association and UBC Faculty of Forestry
The third annual OrienTREEing Race is happening on Sept. 25 at noon and is open to anyone. It is part of the National Forest Week celebrations, organized by the UBC Faculty of Forestry.
Register by September 19 by sending an email to: info.fgsa@gmail.com. Fill in your name and affiliation (student, community member, etc.) and if you wanted to compete individually or register a team of two persons.
The competition is open to any student, faculty or staff member in Forestry, or any other UBC unit, as well as the general public.
The event:
All registered participants will be given a map of campus and a list of clues in the Atrium of the Forest Sciences Centre. Find as many of the listed trees as possible, mark their location, take a tree-selfie picture to prove you were there, and return as fast as you can to Forest Sciences Centre. If you have additional information about each tree, email to info.fgsa@gmail.com or write on paper and drop it in the special box in the Atrium after you finish the run, but before 3:00 pm. Winners will be announced by 5 pm on Friday.
What you’ll need:
- Some knowledge on trees and how to read a map;
- Comfortable walking/running shoes
- camera or cell phone to take pictures to prove you visited the locations (or a dead leaf/needle, a fallen cone, etc. No tree/branch cutting accepted!)
- no restrictions as to how you get the information about the trees or get the riddles sorted out – use internet, books, mentors, friends, telephones, etc.
- participate individually or in teams of two (and split the prize in half)
Prizes: $100, $50 and $25.
The winner would be the fastest to find most (if not all) trees, all accurately mapped and explicitly described via email or on paper (name, areal, use and application, etc. interesting facts about the species).
Rules:
1-5 points for speed and strategy
1-5 points for tree knowledge
1-3 points for mapping accuracy