The Amazing Academic Race

Welcome Week Dean's Meeting : 

The Amazing Academic Race is a scavenger hunt/orienteering course for the incoming students at KU.

Sunday, August 27 from 2:30-4:00 pm

Majors in each college meet at the following locations:

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
     Schaeffer Auditorium
College of Business
     Academic Forum 201, 202, 203
College of Visual & Performing Arts
     Academic Forum 101, 102
College of Education
     Beekey Education Building 218, 240
Exploratory Studies
     McFarland Student Union 218

Not sure of your college? Find it here on the Checksheet and Planners website.

Get To Know Campus
This is the first time since you’ve arrived that you’ve been given some freedom to walk into the buildings that you will call your academic home for the next several years. Many of the places we are sending you may be important to for you to know. They are the offices of staff, important services, and things to do or to know on campus to help you get involved.

Meet People In Person
Practice saying hello and getting to know other people going to school here for the first time. Walking around together gives you this common experience. It’s ok to get lost on campus.

Creative Solutions and Teamwork
There are 20 questions, which are too many to travel to all the spaces. This is on purpose. As students in college, you will often face tasks that seem impossible but are accomplishable in a team or with creative solutions.

Instructions for the Amazing Academic Race:

• Team up (groups of 4-5 people works best)
• Read the clues
• Go to locations
• Write answers on score card
• Return score card to starting location

Prizes:
For each college, the first three teams with the quickest returned score cards and with the most correct answers will win Paw Pass Gift Cards!  

Use this Amazing Academic Race North Campus Map PDF to help find your way!