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MEDIA ADVISORY
November 6, 2006

Campus-Wide $1,000 Treasure Hunt Kicks Off Innovation Week at University of Pennsylvania

WHAT: A campus-wide Treasure Hunt will kick off the first Innovation Week at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weiss Tech House. Each day, students will receive three clues by e-mail and will attend that evening’s Innovation Week event to pick up their "real world" clue directing them to a location on campus where they must take a photo of themselves and submit it to the Treasure Hunt committee by noon of the next day. The winner will receive a $1,000 check.

WHEN: 3 p.m., Monday, Nov. 6, 2006

WHERE: Outside of Weiss Tech House in front of the window monitor display
Levine Hall
3330 Walnut St., Philadelphia

The Treasure Hunt is part of Penn’s first Innovation Week, designed to excite students around technological innovation. This student-led initiative will celebrate Penn’s history of innovation and encourage students to harness technological innovation for the greater good. An anonymous donor contributed the $1,000 for the treasure hunt.

The event will also kick off the first round of the Weiss Tech House’s student inventors’ competition, PennVention 2007. Throughout the week, local entrepreneurs, alumni inventors and faculty from Penn’s Wharton School and School of Engineering and Applied Science will lend their expertise to a series of events designed to help students develop innovative ideas. Student volunteers will also teach a new after-school science program to youth in West Philadelphia. More information can be found at www.tech-house.upenn.edu.

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