Most new student orientation programs want to help students make a successful academic and social transition to the university community and university life. The best orientation programs help reduce student attrition. Engaged students are retained students.

Many of the programs try to drive students to university buildings, greenspaces, the student union, and other campus highlights. But you can go beyond that.

We’ve partnered with a number of universities to design more creative campus scavenger hunt for their new student orientation. Here are some of the best ideas.

When you see all the benefits of team building combined into a single list, it’s simply staggering.

While some of these benefits appear to matter most to businesses (such as “increase company profits”), almost all apply to any group of people that could perform better with greater teamwork.

So, we know team building is exceptionally worthwhile. These 22 benefits apply to any well-designed team-building activity.

Perhaps the coolest feature of a scavenger hunt game is using your smart phone’s camera to take pictures for your hunt.

Why?

Because you get that magic moment at the end of the event watching your happy group review the game’s photo gallery.

With that in mind, here are 30 of the best ideas you can use to integrate photos into your scavenger hunt.