Travel bug stick figure

Mission of the Month: September 2008

CYFERnet Travel Bug Race

Would you like to explore the planet vicariously and win a prize as well? Then don’t miss the third annual CYFERnet Travel Bug Race. This month, youth and adult teams can start touring the globe via their Travel Bug: a metal tag that allows contestants to follow their “hitchhiker” trinket. Your hitchhiker can be a virtual you — make a club mascot and attach it to the Travel Bug for a more personalized experience.

Hitchhikers are a staple of geocaching—the Global Positioning System (GPS)-based adventure game. In geocaching, contestants place their trinkets into official geocaches anywhere in the world, register their Travel Bugs online and track them as other geochachers move them from cache to cache in the real world. The more miles your bug travels, the higher your score in the CYFERnet Travel Bug Race. Read on to learn more.


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