The 2005 Harvard Geography Bee was a success! Thank you to all the volunteers, teachers, and students who participated.

Click here to see PICTURES from this year's bee!

-HGS is looking for a devoted webmaster and for students interested in being committee chairs. Please email us for more information.

 

THE HARVARD QUEST PROGRAM

Tutor & mentor middle school students in subjects ranging from math and science to geography!

 

 

Thank you to everyone who came out for Harvard Hunt, 2005!

WINNING TEAMS
1st Place: Team sdrawkcab with a final time of 3hrs : 20 min
2nd Place: Team 'Round Midnight @ 5:25
3rd Place: Team Spacebar @ (did not finish, but reached final clue)
4th Place: Team Operation Kickass @ (did not finish, but reached 7th seq. clue)

These were the clues that hunters found at each location:

Sequential Location Puzzles

-Puzzle @ Location 1 (pdf)
-Puzzle @ Location 2 (pdf)
-Puzzle @ Location 3 (pdf)
-Puzzle @ Location 4 (pdf)
-Puzzle @ Location 5 (pdf)
-Puzzle @ Location 6 (pdf)
-Puzzle @ Location 7 (pdf)

Provided Location Puzzles

-Provided Location Puzzles


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TIME: NOON, Saturday, December 17th, 2005
PLACE: John Harvard Statue
(Lasts 3-4 hrs, depending on how quickly you solve the puzzles)

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-Full Event Details (html)
-Full Event Details (pdf)
-Hunt Schematic (pdf)
-Sample Puzzle (pdf)
-Sample Puzzle Solution (pdf)
-Map of Harvard University
(we recommend that you print it)


First Prize:

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Welcome to the Harvard Geographic Society website! Here you will find information on HGS events, activities, opportunities. Our activities include mini-geography bees (with cool prizes!), GIS tutorial workshops, and Harvard Map Collection tours. We are also in the process of planning a "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" event, a campus-wide geography bee, a scavenger/puzzle hunt, Geography Awareness Week, and also a geography competition for local Boston/Cambridge-area middle schools in the late spring. Stay tuned by subscribing to geo-list at http://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/geo-list

If you are interested in joining HGS, please email either Xiaolong Zhou zhou@harvardgeo.org or Ken Umeki umeki@fas.harvard.edu with your name and contact info.

If you are already a member, challenge yourself by taking the geography quizzes and take a look through our gallery. We will also periodically upload pictures of our events and activities.

Please feel free to send any questions or comments to info@harvardgeo.org.

 

Harvard Student Activities Office website:

Click here

National Geographic Society website:

http://www.ngs.org

 

Minutes:

11/04/2004

12/16/2004

01/13/2005

02/24/2005

03/17/2005

04/21/2005

General:

GIS Presentation Powerpoint Slides

GIS Web Resources

HGS Constitution

Projected Budget

Non-Hazing Compliance

Student Organization Handbook

Stay Tuned!

Meeting Scheduled for the week of 12/13 with Mini-Geo Bee component.

 
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