November 14th, 2010 we put on a one time World Diabetes Day Photo Scavenger Hunt event. Last year many were disappointed that the Photo Scavenger Hunt was not made an annual addition to Connected in Motion event roster… So, this year we brought it back in a BIG WAY! This year it was not limited to the city of Toronto, but available worldwide! For the 2012 WDD Photo Scavenger Hunt we had people participating in: Windsor/Essex county, Calgary, Halifax, Wollaston Lake, Grand Prarie, Swan Lake, AND Toronto participating in Canada… As well as in the cities: of Harrisburg, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, and Boston (United States); Addis Ababa (Ethiopia); Belgrade (Serbia); Ancient Olympia (Greece); São Paulo (Brazil); Nelson (New Zealand); and Perth (Australia)!
Further, we added ten items on the Photo Scavenger Hunt list to post to Flickr for judging. The prize? Bragging rights and a place here on the CIM website, cementing your claim to fame. Jen and I (Virtue) sat down this weekend to go over each category and pick out our favourites. Here they are:
Item #92: Entire team creating a human ‘blue circle’ (the World Diabetes Day logo!)
Winner: Nicole and family from Windsor/Essex County… look at all that blue!
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Item #93: Entire team participating in one activity on the CIM logo.
Winner: Scully and team from Toronto, Ontario.
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Item #94: Entire team with the snack with the most amount of carbohydrates.
Winner: Nicole and family from Windsor/Essex county, Ontario.
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Item #95. The healthiest snack you can find.
Winner: Mary Kate and team from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Item #96: Entire team at a facility that provides diabetes care/education.
Winner: Nicole and family from Windsor/Essex county, Ontario.
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Item #97: A work of chalk art created by your team in a public place to celebrate World Diabetes Day.
Winner: Meredith and team from Toronto, Ontario.
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Item #98: A member of your team harvesting islet cells.
Winner: Nicole and family from Windsor/Essex County, Ontario.
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Item #99: Entire Team Jumping.
Winner: Kirsten and team from Toronto, Ontario.
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Item #100: Entire team doing something to better the community.
Winner: Sarah K. and team from Calgary, Alberta.
A woman fell and hurt herself on the road. Sarah and her teammates called for help and waited with her until the ambulance arrived.
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Item #101: Entire team performing the Big Blue Test.
Winner: Meredith and team from Toronto, Ontario.
Testing before activity.
The results, after at least 14 minutes of activity.
In terms of the most photos taken/submitted Mary Kate and her team from Halifax win that with 90 photos (out of a possible 101!)
And Nicole and her family from Windsor/Essex county were the only group to submit the total of their photos’ score, with 293 points.
Those were the official categories, but we had many, many favourites outside of the judged categories. Here are just a few:
View from the top floor.
(Hannah, New Zealand)
Entire team drinking a diet beverage with straws.
(Ana Paula, Brazil)
Entire team in a tattoo parlor, with a tattoo artist, designing your WDD tattoo.
(Sarah, Canada)
Photo of the entire teams shadows (plus they did the WDD circle sign!)
(Carolina, Brazil)
Team reflected in sunglasses.
(Sarah, Canada)
Entire team pushing a food cart (look at all the candy!)
(Mary Kate, Canada)
Extreme Bolusing.
(Carolina, Brazil)
The total number of years everyone on your team has had diabetes.
(Sarah, Canada)
Entire team on a slide.
(Carolina, Brazil)
Thanks so much to everyone that joined us, near and far, for this year’s WDD Photo Scavenger Hunt… Let’s do it again next year!
To see all of the photos uploaded by groups, click here to check out the Flickr group.
To read about Nicole and her family’s WDD Photo Scavenger Hunt experience click here for her blog post. (FYI: The part about getting everyone to jump at the same time is GOLDEN.)
To read about Chris Scully’s experience of the WDD Photo Scavenger Hunt click here for her blog post.
