No-waste Scavenger Hunt

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Racoon sign on trail. Illustration shown on right >

Racoon sign on trail. Illustration shown on right >

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Client: University of West Florida Provost Office

The no-waste scavenger hunt shown below is a group project for the University of West Florida Edward Ball Nature Trail. As part of the project, I created 20 12X19 inch aluminum signs that are installed on the 30+ miles of trails. The group also created a website that hikers use to play; we really wanted to eliminate the need for pen and paper traditionally used in scavenger hunts to help reduce waste and to keep our trails clean.

HOW THE HUNT WORKS

People ages 6+ play by using their smartphones to visit the scavenger hunt website. The website displays prompts which players match up with the scavenger hunt signs they find on the trail (see picture above). There are 20 signs total, each featuring either an animal or object associated with our area.

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Design Process:

I focused on making this straight forward for visitors to use: The signs needed to have enough contrast to be clearly visible on the trail, the text size had to be easy to read, the images had to be engaging to our young audience, and the visual content needed to be arranged to accommodate mounting on the uChannel posts.

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Website component explained

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Project background

The project is funded through the provost office as part of LEAD (Leadership, Enhancement, Activities & Development), a selective one-year leadership program for staff at the University of West Florida. This was our project which we broke down into three components:

  1. Adding directional on-campus signs for visitors to find the trail

  2. Adding directional on-trail signs for easier way finding 

  3. Creating a no-waste scavenger hunt for young hikers 

 

LEAD 2019/2020 Class

Josh Camacho

Chip Chism

Susan Drahos

Stephanie Dwyer

Scott Farmer

Toria Feagin

Denise Kidd

Jennifer Kilduff Griffin

Christy Kolb

Shelley Henseler Lewis

Kevin McDonald

Nicole McDonald

Michael Morgan

Jimmy Orum

Katie Shehee

Monica Van Den Berg