Race Statistics
Since, you know, people like statistics (except as a school subject). Here are some facts:
First Place: Team AXD (we should have put pedometers on them)
Second Place: The Bananaramas (fab)
Digital Camera (donated by Noel Leeming yay Noel) Winner: Angelica (hope you enjoy it)
Best Costume: The Extreme Team (in their suits and sunnies)
Best Recycled Mascot: Flurple (with their purple flag thingy)
Will we be doing it again next year? We’d really like to think so, since it was, you know, a blast. Here’s hoping. In the mean time, keep checking in here for news of more library events, happenings, competitions and things like that.
Here’s a neat gallery. Neat!
5.06 – and the winners were… Team AXD! Well done! (Sorry, we’ve been too busy trying to tally scores!) We’ll be sticking up some more photos next week. Second place went to The Bananaramas. We’re going to check out now and go clean up.
3:37 - If you’ll notice this next video only took 20 minutes to edit and upload. I like technology again. This is from the compulsory stop.
More later.
- Jack
The Almost Amazing Race (did you see the article in this week’s Capital Times?) is only a couple of days away. If you’ve registered and sent back the form (signed by a parent or caregiver) that’s great – we are all ready for you. If you haven’t yet posted it in, do bring it in on the day*, as we don’t get our mail on the weekend.
*10am at the Central Library!
And! If you still want to register you can. We will email you the forms to bring back on the day. Or else just come in and join up on the day, though we will need a parent/caregiver signature – otherwise you can’t do it! Which would be a pity.
Jack, Grimm, and I will be live-blogging the event on the day. So exciting.
Saturday is D Day remember for the Almost Amazing Race.
Here are a couple of pieces of information to make your race day a bit easier and maybe more competitive…
1) Library cards. It is highly probable that having a library card (a Wellington City Libraries card, that is) may well earn you some valuable bonus points. In fact, the more team members with library cards the better. If you are registered for the Almost Amazing Race and you don’t have a WCL library card and you would like one (but you just haven’t got around to it yet) there’s still time between now and Saturday! Visit our joining page for info on what you need to do.
2) Bus bus. A quick hint from Ella, race mastermind: you can get a group daytripper bus pass thingy for $12.00 – this would cover all four of you for the whole day. Group passes can be bought from the bus driver (on the bus). This may well come in handy, but isn’t essential/required.
Finally, if you’ve preregistered and haven’t quite got around to sending in your signed confirmation back to us yet: don’t forget!
Cool.
You know how in the post below it says there will be another Almost Amazing Race video up soon? Well how soon is now?
Thanks this time to me for doing all the running and Ella for the direction/camera work. Remember to sign up soon, because places are filling up fast!
Thanks to everyone who has registered for the Almost Amazing Race - your registration packs will be sent out tomorrow or early next week.
It’s not too late too register, but you may want to be quick! There are already loads of teams and individuals registered.
(A new Youtube video will be released soon. You can view the first two here.)
The Almost Amazing Race has a number of sponsors; we’d like to thank them for their support and their time!
Here they are:
Noel Leeming (Tory Street, Wellington)
Subway (Manners Street, Wellington)
The Children’s BookShop, Kilbirnie
Department of Conservation
Wellington Zoo
Red Bull
Cancer Society of NZ
Push Play
Recreation Wellington
Wellington City Council
Registration is now open closed for the Almost Amazing Race! Once registered we will send sent you a registration pack with more information, things to sign … all that kind of stuff.
If you’re registering as a team of four please fill in this form. (If you’re in a team of two, or three, fill in the remainder of the form with the word ‘blank’ or ‘no one’ or something similar.)
If you’re registering as an individual, or haven’t made your team yet, fill in this form.
Edit: You can also register on this page.
Any questions email us at teenblog@wcl.govt.nz.
Click here if you’re wondering what the Almost Amazing Race is was.
This is almost amazing. Thanks to James and the other generous people at Tory Street Noel Leeming, everyone who participates in The Almost Amazing Race goes into the draw to win a Canon digital camera (plus a 2GB memory card). Jack is modeling it for you to the right here. So make sure you and three friends enter; you never know, it could be you!
(There will be prizes for actually winning too.)
So what is The Almost Amazing Race then? Here’s a description of an interesting day out and about in Wellington, to be had on Saturday the 28th of March.
Teams of four will race (observing road rules and other laws of the land) around the city, solving puzzles, taking photos of landmarks (obscure or otherwise) and answering questions (trivial or otherwise) in order to accumulate as many points as possible in order to win The Almost Amazing Race.
What’s in it for you? The chance to get together with three of your friends and do some challenging things you wouldn’t otherwise and, just maybe, win prizes and, most likely, have an amazing time.
Check out Jack’s videos for a more moving description, plus visit us here very very soon to register.
Due either to popular demand, or just the fact that I like playing with iMovie, here is the second ad for The Almost Amazing Race. This one gives away a few more details (possibly about locations) and once again stars Adrienne who is such a good sport for running everywhere I told her to on a very hot day.
Registrations will be opening very soon. We’ll let you know when on this blog and if you become our fan on facebook, we’ll let you know even sooner.
We’ve made a trailer teaser promo video for the Almost Amazing Race! Keep an eye on this blog for more details – we will ask for registration soon. The event will take place on Saturday, the 28th of March.
Credits:
Director – Jack
Editor – Jack
Camera – Jack
Sound – Jack
Starring – Adrienne
No Security Guards were harmed in the filming of this production.
The Almost Amazing Race is almost upon us. What is the Almost Amazing Race? I can’t tell you too much at this stage, only:
1. that there will be prizes
2. it is on the 28th of March
3. it’s only for teens
Keep your eyes peeled for more details. (I mean read this blog.)
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