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
- 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 .
- Get a picture of a member of your team making an oral or poster presentation.
- Get a picture of what you think is the best poster that doesn’t belong to a member of your team.
- Get a picture with at least 3 past local organisers of EvoStar.
- Get a picture with the person who has travelled the farthest to get to the conference (state how far they travelled).
- Get a picture with at least 3 winners of the EvoStar Award +1 POINT FOR EACH ADDITIONAL WINNER
- Get a picture with a past Best paper award winner (state the year and event)
- Get a team picture in front of an Italian flag. – EXTRA 3 POINTS for the Trieste flag
- Get a picture of a bilingual sign (italian/slovenian).
- Get a team picture while singing in the EvoChoir at the social dinner.
- Get a team picture on the main staircase of the University (in Piazzale Europa) or under the “Minerva” statue
- The University of Trieste is also the resting place of a robot, can you find the grave of “Hen Bot”?
- 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.
- Get a team picture at the end of Molo Audace.
- The city is full of seagulls, can you befriend one and take a picture with him/her?
- Mikeze e Jakeze play the hours on the Town Hall, get a picture of them and of your team acting like them.
- Get a team picture at one of Trieste’s Castles–San Giusto, Miramare, or Duino. – EXTRA 3 POINTS
- Trieste has multiple roman ruins around its center: take a picture of your team in one of them.
- 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
- 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.
- Share how you enjoy the Evostar conference on a social network of your choosing (include a print screen or link).
- Rewrite the lyrics of Abba’s song “Waterloo” using EvoStar as the theme – EXTRA 5 POINTS