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Mission of the Month: CYFERnet Travel Bug Race

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Author and Contributors: Dunham, Trudy (31 more by this author)
Publisher: CYFERnet (2009)
Review Level: University Extension
Primary Content Area: Program Support
Content Type: Programming Resource
Audience: Professionals, Educators & Program Staff
Resource Type: An extension or a land-grant developed resource
Keywords: mission of the month, travel bug, geocache, GPS, geospatial
Description: Would you like to explore the planet vicariously and win a prize as well? Then don’t miss the annual CYFERnet Travel Bug Race. In September, 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 serve as 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.
Media Type: HTML
Resource Listed: November 28, 2011
Resource Last Updated: November 28, 2011
Language: EN

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