{"id":976,"date":"2015-09-17T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/boc\/?p=976"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:18:28","slug":"announcing-the-outdoor-nation-campus-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/2015\/09\/17\/announcing-the-outdoor-nation-campus-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Outdoor Nation Campus Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fall, Bates is participating in the Campus Challenge sponsored by Outdoor Nation (ON), a nonprofit whose mission is to increase engagement in outdoor recreation among millennials.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Led by the Bates Outing Club, Bates is competing against 56 other schools nationwide to get the most members of our respective communities \u2014 students, staff, faculty, alumni, friends, and family \u2014 engaged in the outdoors through Oct. 17, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we win, the Bates Outing Club gets a new outdoor gear library from REI and the North Face. There are also many individual prizes \u2014 backpacks, tents, hats, and more \u2014 which all those who participate are eligible to win!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All you need to do to participate is document any outdoor activity lasting at least 30 minutes with a smartphone photo and a few words about what you did \u2014 and then upload the image and write up to ON via your a free online account. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can all be done in about 30 seconds on your smartphone! Be sure to toss up a picture of your activity on your favorite social media channel \u2014 and tag your photos with #outdoornation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each week, members of the Bates Outing Club will raffle off gear to participants contributing to the Bates total. The weekly giveaways change based on weekly sponsors \u2014 on Osprey\u2019s week we\u2019ll give away two backpacks! Also, every person who logs activities will be entered into weekly gear raffles organized by ON. Finally, the person with the most logged activities within each school community and in the whole competition will be completely decked out in new gear by the competition sponsors.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oncampuschallenge.org\/\">Join the Challenge<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Other things to know about the challenge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each person can log a single group activity separately (e.g. each person at a soccer practice can log the activity independently.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the activity is outside and lasts for at least 30 minutes, it counts!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each activity is awarded 10 points that go towards both individual and school totals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact Jordan Cargill at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:jcargill@bates.edu\">jcargill@bates.edu<\/a>&nbsp;for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, Bates is participating in the Campus Challenge sponsored by Outdoor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}