Scavenger Hunt-January 6th-2011

Me, and two classmates. (Erik, Linna.) were assigned as a team.
Our first mission for the Creative Mind class as announced by Apryl Berney was a scavenger hunt, we had around 35 minutes or so to find all 14 things that are listed below.
Me and Erik were in most of the shots, since Linna was doing most of the camera work for the assignment.

Here is the list of what we had to find.
1. a duck or goose
2. Bus stop
3. A copy of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
4. Euphrat Museum of Art
5. A student sleeping in the library.
6. Jamba juice cup
7. De Anza President Brian Murphy
8. The Creative Minds class blog.
9. Coke bottle in Bookstore
10. Two Honda civics of the same color, parked side by side in the parking lot
11. Someone wearing Converse tennis shoes
12. Someone who has seen Tron in 3D.
13. Someone other than Prof. Berney whose first name is Apryl/April (proof of that person’s name must be included in the photo).
14. Someone who knows a popular dance move and who can teach that dance move to group members.

We found 11 out of 14 of the things.

Me and Erik Standing in front of the Euphrat Museum of Art.

Me and Erik with Pepsi®....yeah...sorry....DeAnza has no Coca Cola® for sale it seems. I am going to guess they have a contract or something with PepsiCo® lol.

 We stopped a fellow student with Converse on, and told him to show off his canvas kicks for our hunt, and he was totally cool with it, and seemed to understand what we were doing... a Scavenger hunt of course.

The Creative Minds Homepage @ Creativemindsatdeanza.wordpress.com
This one goes out to our Professor April Berney. B]

We almost did not find the book of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time,  we had 10 minutes left, and could not find it, and thought someone maybe was hid it. (Creative Minds being cutthroat in competition? thankfully not) but nope, we gave another shot at looking for it, and found the book.

A duck...yep, none were outside that night, so we took a loophole like many did with the Internet.
Thank goodness for the internet...
Also, giving my best "DuckFace" expression for this shot specifically haha.

DeAnza President Brian Murphy, not sure he was on campus then, so we googled him instead.

Me, Erik, and Linna, i am pointing at her because she was the only so far of our group who went to see the new Tron movie. *phew* good thing she did, because we have not seen it.

Jamba Juice cup via Google Image search.....see the pattern now? haha. We should have been able to find a Jamba Juice cup on Campus, in the campus garbage cans, or by going across the street, but we were running out of time, and had to go this route for likely one of the easier ones.

Caught a sleeping student in the Library *Wags finger* Tsk Tsk.....wait! i can't judge or criticize someone about this, i have been guilty of this as well in my time in college as well haha, i have no room to talk.

The first shot in which i took, before Linna realized her camera would be better suited for this assignment, at the bus stop near Panda Express.

~[In Conclusion]~

I felt this was a fun first assignment, and that it was a good way for us classmates to get to know each other a a bit, and go out for a little adventure, in which we work together as a group, make decisions, sometimes they go as planned, sometimes they don't.
We ended up using problem solving skills in the scenarios in which things did not go as planned, and used some improvising when needed.
These are good things to experience toghether as classmates, as these skills can translate well into class likely, as we learn to co-exist and work well among our fellow students.

Other then that, if we had to hunt again, what should maybe we have done differently?
Well, i feel on my end i realize i likely should have lead them to the bus stop at the front of the campus, rather then towards one of the side ones near the street, i feel i wasted us time taking them to that one.
Other then that, maybe more time searching for a Jamba Juice Cup, since they are likely not hard to find on campus trashcans, or cafeteria.
Other then that, i think we should have started off the whole time maybe using Linna's camera haha, since mine does not work well in the dark.

Strategy wise, we just went with the flow of it (no pun intended, heh.) but we decided first off to go to a bus stop, along the way we tried to "kill two birds with one stone" to speak figuratively while heading to the bus stop, by also along the walk trying to spot two matching Honda Civics lined up while head to the best stop.
I still feel that was a good idea, but unfortunately we did not spot any matching Honda Civics lined up near each other, and i think many others in the hunt did not find any as well at that time of the night it seems.
We go to the bus stop, but as i stated earlier, i feel strategy wise we maybe should have headed to the Bus stop at the front of campus instead, so that's something strategy wise i felt could have been better when look back at it now. I feel overall our way of doing it worked, could have it been done better? of course? could of it been better time managed? why yes, but i still feel it was a decent way we choose to go.

Some of the problems, as listed above in some of the pictures captions, were that there was no Coca Cola on campus, only Pepsi for sale, which we could not do anything about, nor could most of the other students, unless they had a Coke bottle in their backpack/bag or something, we lost a good amount of time trying to find a Coke bottle to buy, before i told my two teammates that DeAnza likely does not sell cokes it seems, and that they may have a contract under Pepsico, and that we may have to just go with Pepsi due to that.
Not finding any matching Honda Civics lined up, and the darkness certainly did not help with that.
Having a hard time finding the book, which we almost did not find, and were running low on time.
As just mentioned....time constraints...
Some dark shots that were hard to see, my camera being even worse for night time shots though then Linna's.

So yeah...those were some of the issues we did run into, but we had solutions for most issues, using google image search was one of them, finding out there is not Coca Cola on campus was something we brought up later to our Professor, which she realized was not our fault, and many others in the hunt noticed the same thing and pointed out that Coke was not sold on campus.
We found the book eventually, and i am glad we gave one last shot at searching for it in the section it was located at.
When my camera was not cutting it outdoors, Linna offered to take the shots with phone, which worked better for taking pics, and yea, we at least solved some of these issues by working together, and figuring things out.

I feel this hunt was fun, yet whether some of us realized it or not at first, it showed how we all have our own differing ways of thinking, and ideas that we explore.
The creativity of people were showcased, showing how we as individuals are different, and similar.
So its nice to get insight into the ways others think, act, or go about with this Scavenger Hunt, where it was indeed fun, it was also an interesting way to see how we each go about, and work with each other to get things done, despite our differences, and some of our similarities in which we were exposed of in this assignment.

~Flow