George Bush High School Adventure Hunt

#1: Find someone 80 years old or older around the area. Take some time to chat with them, listen to a story they may have about the local area, or just ask them about their life. Then at some point take a video of your team asking them the question “What is the most important thing children should learn in life?”.

#2: Research shows that consuming raw garlic can boost your immune system. As the school year quickly approaches it’s critical to remain healthy, so take a video of all your team members each chewing a separate raw clove of garlic for at least 10 full seconds. Team members should be actively chewing the clove and not just holding it in their mouths. Disclaimer, although healthy this will likely not be pleasant, which is exactly the point.

#3: Get your team to The Escape Game location here in CityCentre (794 Sorella Court #127). Once there, head inside and tell the staff member that you are with the George Bush High School adventure hunt. They will give you a puzzle to complete there on site. To successfully complete the challenge, gain access to the locked box and receive your team’s reward. At some point throughout the challenge take a picture or video of your team working together on the task, or take a celebratory team picture outside the front of their business after you’ve successfully completed the challenge.

*Please note that only one team will be able to work on this puzzle at a time. If you arrive and another team is working on it you can wait a few minutes until they are finished, or you can return at another time.

#4: Get to any outdoor public fountain around CityCentre (a decorative one, not a drinking fountain). Once you’ve found one, take a group picture in front of it while every team member at the same time pours an ice cold bottle of water over their head (a standard 16 ounce bottled water recently taken from a refrigerated display works well). Try to time the picture perfectly so that someone snaps it just as the ice water is hitting everyone’s heads.

#5: As educators you have likely used Scotch Tape for just about everything. Well, except this. To honor this incredibly versatile American-made product take a fun group picture after everyone uses Scotch tape to stretch and distort their faces. For some inspiration click HERE.

#6: Find a postcard that features this area in some way and purchase it. Then click HERE to go to the Postcard Happiness Project website and scroll down to the profile for John Craig, an adult with Downs Syndrome that loves to receive mail. On your postcard include a fun or uplifting message and sign it with your names or your group name. The mailing address for John can be found in his profile description. Stamp your card and take a picture with it to show you've completed your Act Of Kindness.

#7: Take a video of your team successfully completing the Whipped Cream Catapult Challenge. There are two options for completing this depending on your Covid comfort level with the other members of your team. Option #1 is to divide your team into pairs. Have someone squirt a dollop (small lump) of whipped cream onto the back of their hand. Have the other person stand a few feet away from them ready to catch the whipped cream in their mouth. The person with the whipped cream on their hand will swing their arm back, palm down. When that hand gets back in front of them at about waist height, they’ll strike their wrist with their other free hand, causing the whipped cream to go flying. The second person should successfully catch the whipped cream in their mouth, or at least catch some of it in their mouth and the rest on their face. For this option, at least half your team should make a successful catch in the video. For Option #2 each team member will put the whipped cream on the back of their own hand and fling it up to themselves, at least 3 feet above their head. For this option everyone on the team would need to make a successful catch in the video. To understand the challenge better and to watch a video of a team successfully completing it click HERE.

#8: Find any youth (or group of youth) around the area and take a video of them teaching your team members how to “Floss”. And no, it has nothing to do with your teeth.

#9: Get to any grassy surface and take a video of your team all completing the Group Sit & Stand Challenge. Basically, your team members will all be standing shoulder to shoulder in a tight clump/circle with your backs all facing in and your arms interlocked. Slowly lower the entire interlocked group to the ground until you are in a seated position with your butt on the ground, and then slowly stand back up while remaining interlocked. To watch a video of a group successfully completing this challenge click HERE.

#10: Take a video of at least half the members in your group completing the "Bite The Bag" challenge. Stand on one leg, bend down and grab a brown paper bag with your teeth and lift it up as you stand back up on one foot. Must remain on one foot the entire time and can not use your arms, hold onto anything, or bump into anything else. To watch a video of someone successfully completing this challenge click HERE.

#11: On a mobile device have any one team member successfully use the stopwatch function to get the timer to stop at exactly 5 seconds. Once they’ve got it, have someone take their picture as they proudly display their device with 5.00 seconds clearly visible. This should be done using the stopwatch function and not the countdown/timer clock. Everyone can be attempting the challenge but only one member needs to complete it successfully.

#12: Today is National Support Public Education Day (it’s true, look it up). To honor this, find any of the butterfly sculptures around CityCentre (such as this one HERE) that were designed and painted by local schools. Once you’ve found one, have someone take a well timed picture of your team all jumping in the air next to the sculpture with your wings outstretched to represent how educators help students “soar”.

#13: Anywhere around the area find a piece of pie and take a video of your team with it while everyone closes their eyes and in unison slowly recites the first 12 digits of Pi from memory without anyone else assisting you. Just as a helpful tip, the number 8 is typically considered to be the 12th digit.

#14: Anywhere around the area take a group picture with any public digital clock (not a cell phone or personal watch) when the digits add up to 12. For example, 11:46am would be acceptable because 1+1+4+6=12. Similarly, 3:09pm would also be acceptable, or any other time where the sum of the individual digits equals 12.

#15: Anywhere around the area find an active military person or veteran. Then take a video of them watching your entire team doing 10 push-ups or sit-ups at their feet to honor their strength. An alternative for finding an actual person is to find any American flag that is being flown around the area and contact an active military person or veteran via Facetime or video chat. Then have them watch you over your device as you complete the sit-ups or push-ups and the flag is in the background. After you’ve finished recording, spend a few minutes learning more about their time in the service before you depart or disconnect, as a small gesture of appreciation.

#16: Find any vending machine (either with food, kids trinkets, etc) and put enough money into it that any one item could be gotten. Don’t select anything but instead leave a note that says “Any item of your choice on us! Love, George Bush High School Staff”. Then take a picture of your team so that the vending machine, the deposited amount (if applicable), and your note are all visible if possible.

#17: Take a video of your team completing the "Paper Airplane Challenge". Basically send some team members to the 2nd level of any building or parking garage and have them toss paper airplanes out into the air in front of them. The rest of your team should be on the sidewalk or grass below. Any of your team members at ground level needs to catch just one plane before it hits the ground. All team members at ground level can be attempting to catch planes, but only one plane needs to be caught. To watch a team complete this mission successfully click HERE.

#18: Being an effective educator, especially during a global pandemic, requires incredible focus. Click HERE to complete the Concentration Challenge. If you can’t access it via the link simply type “Telegraph Brain Age Test” into any browser and it should be at the top of the results. Once there, select the option for “Concentration” and get ready to begin the test. You will see a series of shapes. The goal is to decide whether the word inside the shape matches the color of the shape. If it does, click the check mark. If it doesn’t click on the X. Your score will be based on speed and accuracy. To complete this challenge successfully, any member of your team needs to score 27 or more points total on one test. Once someone has achieved an acceptable score, take a picture of the highly focused team member proudly displaying their score on their screen.