Tomorrow afternoon, the Program Planning class will host a first time event, The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race is a student-led event planned by the Program Planning class this semester.
Professor Laura Alexeichik has challenged her students to bring plans on paper to life by creating their own event here on campus. She said, “It’s tough to see what you’re learning in the classroom, like how that applies . . . my hope is that this is a way to do that.”
Alexeichik wanted not just hypothetical programs, but ideas that could become reality and events students could participate in.
The event is student-led and will give students the opportunity to participate in the event, which largely mirrors much of the show, The Amazing Race. The show is essentially a large scavenger hunt that involves solving clues and following said clues to a multitude of locations. The afternoon will include initiative-type activities, a Frisbee toss, and a canoe portage challenge.
Students are allowed to enter in teams of up to five people and must pay either a team fee of $8 or an individual fee of $2. Individuals will be placed in teams at registration, which will take place in the Kerr-Pegula Field House at 1:00, tomorrow afternoon.
Both the students and Alexeichik have high hopes for the event, as pre-registration has been taking place at mealtimes in the Campus Center the past two weeks.
As she helps to observe and run the event, Alexeichik reflected on the upcoming event, “This should be something fun for students to participate in, I wish I could participate.”
The Amazing Race will challenge students to not only solve the clues, but to know the campus.
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