Rushing around the school looking for everyday objects may seem trivial, but it can actually be a lot of fun.

On October 7th, 2016, Hershey High School students were treated to the school’s second annual Community Day. Over the course of four 30 minute sessions, students get to experience a variety of different clubs, activities, and challenges. Community Day was created in order to increase extracurricular activity around the school. This year, it was held in the fall to increase club attendance during the rest of the year.

The scavenger hunt, facilitated by special education teacher Kyle Moll, sends participants around the school in search of 52 items. In order to gather something, a picture must be taken of the item along with a member of a group member. Examples of things that are needed in order to complete the search include selfies with teachers, a gold dollar coin, and chewed gum. More difficult articles include the principal’s autograph, a 1989 penny, and red legos. The scavenger hunt has 126 participants, making it one of the most popular community day events this year,

“What I wanted to do with the hunt is to get people to use their environment and community to solve a problem,” says Moll, “[people] can find something useful where they’ve never been before.”

According to senior Jack Easterwood, they had first wandered around trying to get selfies with teachers. However, since most of them were busy, they had ended up losing time to find other items. Additionally, Easterwood had explained that most of the items were relatively close to each other.

“We found like 20 things in the library and a lot of other things in the gym,” said Easterwood.

The library, along with the gym and the cafeteria were noted hotspots to find objects. However, no group or partnership managed to find every single thing on the list. Many groups said that time was their worst enemy, and that given enough time they could’ve done better.

“People get to work with others and have fun, and I think that’s great, “ Moll says.