We’re so excited by the energy and creativity so many of you brought to our first ever Very Official Duke TIP Scavenger Hunt for the Homebound!
And now, without further ado, we are excited to announce the winners!
Overall Top Scorers
3rd Place – Alina Stribling
And the winners in each category are…
Making Things
(three-way tie)
Zora Hill
Seren Dornsmith
Diego Carrasco-Torres
Finding Things
(four-way tie)
Seren Dornsmith
Tinker Robinson
Ryan Lydon
Alina Stribling
Doing Things
(three-way tie)
Zora Hill
Seren Dornsmith
Mariana Palancares
Cleaning Things
(five-way tie)
Zora Hill
Seren Dornsmith
Mariana Palancares
Jocelyn Garcia
Alina Stribling
Writing Things
(four-way tie)
Zora Hill
Seren Dornsmith
Alina Stribling
Isabel Elliot
And a small selection of the many great submissions from each category
Section #1: Finding Things
Section #2: Doing Things
Section #3: Making Things
Section #4: Writing Things
Of course we love this Haiku from Diego Carrasco-Torres!
Duke TIP Is the best
It is a cool place to be
Thanks for this swell chance
A to Z poems to beat the band.
Submitted by Isabel Elliott
There is something different with cucumbers
Zucchini is bold
Kelp is luscious
Quince is fruit but perfect
Yet the cucumber is very jinxed
Submitted by Zora Hill
I went to school
The sun shining, birds sing pretty songs bees begin to buzz Friends whisper rumors
Ones I know will move like wildfires
Some girls will try to become queens
When you might see right through them.
I decide to stroll outside to the grounds
Where flowers will get super big
Seeds grow here.
I sit on the bench to just, think.
Lights shine everywhere, reminding me of xenocrysts.
Submitted by Grant Hanburg
This sonnet must enclose no first letter of the English phonemes
‘Twill be the obverse of killing dogs with xylophones
Ketchup might be better poets in this test
The Quibbler, zombies, just showed up
Thus, excuse me most politely, I must flee.
Best country song about your pet
Submitted by Tinker Robinson
oh the steps, he a taking and the huffs he a shaken
his head goes back to meeee
he wants to roam the valley to catch the cat from the alley and oh that husky dog, moves along
He’s tired and old he’s got no bone to hold on this long road we call life.
That dog moves with strife to his tired and empty boooones His day a come’n to its end and the old dog runs home to Salley
Best song about a non-pet
Submitted by Isabella Edghill
Chorus:
Ooh Ooh lack of pets lack of pets Ooh Ooh
Verse 1:
No fish nor frog
No cats or dog
So lonely in my house
Not even a mouse
Verse 2:
It doesn’t even matter to me
I don’t like animals you see
I am fine with my sister
My mom and a Mister
No animals or creatures
Claws or features
Best song from a pet
Submitted by Zora Hill
Oh, it’s about to be dinner time I’m gonna get my mic and drop my rhyme!
I can’t wait for the food that’s gonna be on my plate
Tuna is what I’m purring at
Milk is what I’m meowing for!
I can’t wait for all this food!
Milk and tuna galore!
Meow Meow- Come on chef, hurry up!- Meow Meow- You better keep up!- I can’t wait for what’s about to be on my plate!
Tuna is what I’m purring at
Milk is what I’m meowing for!
Thanks chef for this food galore!
Yummy Sandwiches
Ham and Cheddar Sandwich
submitted by Hailee Lopez
1. Buy Sourdough bread from Washington state (fly there if you have to)
2. Spread salted butter on both pieces of bread
3. Place cold slices of spiralized ham on the buttered pieces of bread.
4. Cut slices of sharp cheddar cheese and place then on the ham.
5. Combine both pieces of bread with the ham butter and cheese in between and cut in half.
6. Enjoy as a snack, meal, travel meal, sandwich, or lunch/work lunch. Either way ENJOY
Hummus Sandwich
submitted by Tinker Robinson
1. Get two slices of bread, and set them down on a plate next to each other.
2. Get a knife and hummus. Open the hummus container and set it next to the plate. Get hummus on the knife. On the slice of bread to the right use the knife spread the hummus.
3. Find lettuce, a tomato, and a cucumber, and set the ingredients on the counter.
4. Get out a potato peeler in your right hand, and pick up the cucumber in the left hand. Take of the top half of the cucumber’s peel by scraping the blade part of the peeler against the cucumber and push away from you until you see a strip of light green underneath the dark green. Repeat this step all around the top half of the cucumber. Then set the cucumber on a cutting board, and go to get a knife.
5. Use the knife to cut the top half of the cucumber into coins (circles.) 6. Then set the coins on the bread with the hummus on it.
7. Peel off a piece of lettuce and place that on top of the cucumbers.
8. Turn the tomato to the side and cut two tomato slices. Get rid of the slice that has the stem in it and set the remaining tomato slice on the lettuce.
9. Pick up the piece of bread with nothing on it and place it on top of the tomato.
Then you can eat the sandwich!
Salami and Avocado Sandwich
submitted by Mariana Palancares
Ingredients: Baguette, avocado, salami, muenster cheese, mayonnaise
Instructions:
1. Slice two pieces of the baguette for your sandwich.
2. Lightly toast both. Toast one of the pieces with two to three slices of cheese on top of it.
3. Lay out your ingredients.
4. Take a knife and spread as much mayo as you want on the empty slice of bread.
5. After that take two to three slices of salami and put it top of the mayo.
6. Then cut an avocado in two, and scoop out as much avocado as you want on top of the salami.
7. To finish up, you take the slice of bread with the cheese on it, and close the sandwich.
Some add ons, are lime, tomato, Tajin, salt, etc.
Tofurkey and Cheese Sandwich
submitted by Seren Dornsmith
Ingredients:
Buy chopped lettuce, cheese slices, bread, and Tofurkey slices. You can buy whatever kind of cheese, chopped lettuce, and bread you want.
Instructions:
1. Get out a plate. Lay your ingredients out in front of you.
3. Open the bag of bread. Take two slices out. Lay them down, one next to the other, on the plate. Close the bag of bread and put it away.
4. Open your Tofurkey slices. Place one on the slice of bread on the left.
5. Open your cheese slices and place one on top of the Tofurkey slice you just placed.
6. Now open the lettuce. Take a small handful out and place it on top of the cheese and Tofurkey slices you placed on the bread.
7. Place another slice of cheese on top of the handful of lettuce. 8. Place another slice of Tofurkey on top of that whole stack.
9. Put the other piece of bread on top.
10. Close the Tofurkey. Close the cheese. Close the lettuce. Put them away in the fridge.
Enjoy your sandwich.
Akshar says
everyone did really good!