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The participants in first, second, and third place will win fabulous prizes! \n\nFollow the Spectrum Center on twitter at http:\/\/twitter.com\/UMSpectrumCtr# to get updates about the challenges, the prizes, and helpful hints. \n\nIf you have questions, visit http:\/\/scvngr.com, http:\/\/spectrumcenter.umich.edu, or email jlbest@umich.edu.\n\n*If you would like to participate in the trek via SMS text messaging, send the code ncow2010 to SCVNGR, or 728647, and you will be texted the first challenge.", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"4011-912887@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/4011", "building_id":"1000120", "building_name":"Michigan Union", "campus_maps_id":"191", "room":"", "location_name":"Michigan Union", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":[], "website":"http:\/\/spectrumcenter.umich.edu", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Spectrum Center", "group_id":"1030", "website":"http:\/\/spectrumcenter.umich.edu" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":5, "first_occurrence":912884 } , "4009-921079": { "datetime_modified":"20101111T175853", "datetime_start":"20101014T070000", "datetime_end":"", "has_end_time":0, "date_start":"2010-10-14", "date_end":"", "time_start":"07:00:00", "time_end":"", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Peace Corps Photo Exhibit", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Peace Corps Photo Exhibit", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "description":"Come learn more about the University of Michigan's involvement in the founding of the U.S. Peace Corps, through photos, stories, and other artifacts in this inspiring exhibit. 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The outstanding objects that make up the Fusfeld collection are both geographically and historically wide-ranging, including work by early nineteenth-century itinerant folk portraitists as well as late twentieth-century sculpture and painting by \u201coutsider\u201d\u009d artists from the American South, Midwest, and Northeast.", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"3293-916112@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/3293", "building_id":"1000151", "building_name":"Museum of Art", "campus_maps_id":"11", "room":"", "location_name":"Museum of Art", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["visual arts"], "website":"http:\/\/www.umma.umich.edu", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)", "group_id":"1177", "website":"http:\/\/www.umma.umich.edu\/" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":69, "first_occurrence":916084 } , "3292-913262": { "datetime_modified":"20101111T175654", "datetime_start":"20101014T100000", "datetime_end":"", "has_end_time":0, "date_start":"2010-10-14", "date_end":"", "time_start":"10:00:00", "time_end":"", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"UMMA Projects: Jakob Kolding", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"UMMA Projects: Jakob Kolding", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "description":"UMMA is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a North American museum of Berlin- based artist Jakob Kolding. 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