The Great EvoStar Scavenger Hunt 2025

Instructions

  • Arrange yourselves into a team of 3 or 4 people – at least three of the team members must be students
  • Come up with a Team Name –  EXTRA 5 POINTS FOR CREATIVITY
  • All tasks (except the last one) are worth one point.
  • You must submit your answers, including photographs, as a PDF file to info AT evostar DOT org no later than 10pm on Thursday
  • You should try and complete as many of the tasks as you can – don’t worry if you can’t manage all of them.
  • Each task is worth 1 point, unless otherwise stated

Our team of judges (Anikó Ekart, Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar and Damiano Ravalico) will decide the winners and present prizes at the closing session.

Tasks

  1. Get a picture of your team together at the student welcome reception and post it on social media tagging EvoStar and Species and using the tag #evostar2025 .
  2. Get a picture of a member of your team making an oral or poster presentation. 
  3. Get a picture of what you think is the best poster that doesn’t belong to a member of your team.
  4. Get a picture with at least 3 past local organisers of EvoStar.
  1. Get a picture with the person who has travelled the farthest to get to the conference (state how far they travelled).
  2. Get a picture with at least 3 winners of the EvoStar Award +1 POINT FOR EACH ADDITIONAL WINNER
  3. Get a picture with a past Best paper award winner (state the year and event) 
  4. Get a team picture in front of an Italian flag. – EXTRA 3 POINTS for the Trieste flag
  5. Get a picture of a bilingual sign (italian/slovenian). 
  6. Get a team picture while singing in the EvoChoir at the social dinner.
  7. Get a team picture on the main staircase of the University (in Piazzale Europa) or under the “Minerva” statue
  8. The University of Trieste is also the resting place of a robot, can you find the grave of “Hen Bot”?
  9. The University of Trieste has a study room that never sleeps: the Libreria Generale is open 24/7. Get a picture of a team member pretending to study there.
  10. Get a team picture at the end of Molo Audace.
  11. The city is full of seagulls, can you befriend one and take a picture with him/her?
  12. Mikeze e Jakeze play the hours on the Town Hall, get a picture of them and of your team acting like them.
  13. Get a team picture at one of Trieste’s Castles–San Giusto, Miramare, or Duino. – EXTRA 3 POINTS  
  14. Trieste has multiple roman ruins around its center: take a picture of your team in one of them.
  15. Trieste is the city of wind, so on some corners you can even find handrails to hold on: find one and take a picture of a member of your team holding on to it
  16. Every autumn Trieste hosts one of the largest sailboats competitions in the world: the Barcolana. Get a picture of a member of your team in front of a sailing boat on the Rive.
  17. Share how you enjoy the Evostar conference on a social network of your choosing (include a print screen or link).
  18. Rewrite the lyrics of Abba’s song “Waterloo” using EvoStar as the theme – EXTRA 5 POINTS