Camp Hearties 2019- Week 1

Week 1- Team Building

Judged by : Ben Rosenbaum

Camp this year has gotten off to a great start! Although we are small in numbers, 23 Hearties spread out over 3 teams, we are big on enthusiasm and creativity! Here is a map showing the placement of our camp members across the country and the world! Canada and Australia representing our International Hearties! 

We did things a little differently this year due to scheduling. Registration and Week 1 happened at the same time so teams only had to complete 4 tasks. But all the teams got their entries in early, so maybe I shouldn't have gone so easy on them! Here are the choices they had for the Team Building Week.

Mandatory Task:

1) Team Task- Pick a teammate to be your team mascot!! Find a way so that your mascot will not give their identity away in their tasks. You can use a mask or have a certain mascot shirt and block the face in pictures with an emoji or some other object. You could have a hat that covers most of the face. Be creative with it! But this year the mascot is going to have to do more physical tasks, so make sure this teammate is up to going out in their community and capturing it with their camera!

Optional Tasks: Please pick 3 of the following tasks.

2) Create nicknames for teammates.

3) Team Flag or Crest- fun if you have team members from different states or countries.

4) Plaid items your team members already own that they can pack for camp!

5) Create Emojis for teammates 

Teams did an amazing job! But before we get to their entries ( I know, you are at the edge of your seats!) Let me go over the judging as it has changed this year. I spoke with Ben Rosenbaum, who is returning as judge for the 4th year in a row! We decided that to make judging more clear and cohesive we would break the criteria into two categories, IDEA and EXECUTION. Then have two objectives under each in which to judge. Here is what we came up with.

Here are the entries for week 1 of Camp Hearties 2019! Ben Rosenbaum's comments will be in blue.

Opening Comments to all Campers from Ben:

It's so nice to "meet" all of you! Thanks for including me in the fun for another summer at Camp Hearties. It's always such a pleasure to see the creative ways you express yourselves through these weekly challenges. And every year I'm so excited by the friendships that form out of these teams that are assembled across great geographic distances! It's so cool! Great start and let's have some fun!

Ben's Brownie Points

Originality- HV Dips & Sprinkles

Humor- Elizabeth's Entourage

Layout- Women of Wonder

Quality- Elizabeth's Entourage

Elizabeth's Entourage

Ben: What a beautiful presentation! The background and the professional looking logo! Very nice first impressions happening here. Looking at your team Bitmojis I'm struck by the fact that it looks like you have two teammates who are really stressed and overworked and the rest of you are in full recreation mode just relaxing and having fun: I see reading, having a laugh, a coffee enthusiast, a nature napper, TWO WOMEN WITH LITERAL STRESS SWEAT FLYING OFF THEIR FOREHEADS WHILE THEY MULTITASK LIKE CHAMPIONS, and someone enjoying the fun and exercise of hockey in street clothes

Wow that flag is gorgeous! Such a beautiful crest (and that great logo again!), and great unity in your color scheme.
Squidget! I love Squidget! Way to get out in the world and party like a Heartie! Perhaps in a location that looks similar to the HV water tower? Or am I making something out of nothing?
You all have a pretty solid collection of plaid, I'm sure you've made the Camp Hearties host very proud.

Hope Valley's Dips & Sprinkles

Ben: Wow! This looks like an advertisement for an awesome ice cream shop! It all works together so nicely! Really great job blending it all together into one unified idea.
I'm seeing lots of hearts all over the place. Even in the team name! Nice repetition of the Hearties favorite shape!
I really like your crest with all the locations of your teammates (I assume?) and the many references to ice cream as well. So fun!
It's such a pleasure to meet Scoops Delight! Which is also a great name for a investigative reporter who only does uplifting puff pieces

. And I'm assuming Scoops either owns a selfie stick or asked a VERY tell friend to take her picture in that real life ice cream shop. I dig the Ice cream sunglasses/mask. I have to know: Scoops, did you buy some ice cream during that visit?!
I'm assuming that the ice cream flavors with the Emojis are your team nicknames and personal Emojis to match? Very clever once again within your ice cream shop theme! My goodness I've written "ice cream shop" a lot. I'm also guessing (because these all seem like real world ice cream flavors) that your nicknames are based off of each teammate's real life favorite flavor? These are some great choices. I gotta say if I were placing an order right now I'd go with the peanut butter fudge swirl. Wow, now I've gotta go get some ice cream! The HV Dips & Sprinkles ice cream shop better hope a whole bus load of kids under 10 doesn't roll up at once to collect those free cones! They'll put you out of business!

Women of Wonder

Ben: I'm sensing a super hero theme here. I'm not sure exactly what put that idea in my head, but I'm really getting a strong vibe in that direction

. The wonderful Women of Wonder! Such a bright and fun presentation! Clearly you ladies are ready to kick butt and take names. I love that your crest includes your different states! That's so neat to see. And the crest is wielded so fiercely and well by the actual Wonder Woman herself! I've heard Gal Gadot is very tall so I can only assume that means your mascot is like 10 feet tall?! Or maybe that's not Gal Gadot, maybe that's your mascot's very helpful granddaughter. Thanks for joining us and great job!
Nice continuity with the super hero theme and your nicknames! I hope you all are willing to share your comic book collections with everyone at camp!
Are some of your plaid items material for making things? Things like clothes perhaps? That's so awesome! They're just sitting there waiting to become the pants they was always meant to be!

Thanks Ben for your comments and judging! Here is the placement for week 1!

At the end of the week Elizabeth's Entourage is in the lead, but by only 1 point, and with only 3 teams, anyone can be in the lead next week! Stay tuned for next week as the teams complete tasks for Week 2- Saloon Swoon!

Camp Director,

Lee's Plaid Pants