Congratulations to the Thoi-Townsend team for winning the scavenger hunt with a total of 54/70 points!

Scavenger Hunt Rules

The Safety Scavenger Hunt is open 3:45-5:45 PM on September 22. All Safety Day attendees are allowed to participate but only one submission is allowed per two-lab team. Duplicate submissions will be deleted.

There are 70 total clues and 2 tiebreakers. You do not have to answer every question, but the more you answer, the more likely you are to win.

The answers to all clues are hidden in areas that are typically accessible to the general public and are indoors unless otherwise specified. The CSSC is not responsible for any damaged, missing, or inaccessible clues. Any labs found tampering with the clues are immediately disqualified – be a good sport!

The team that completes the most correct items within the time window wins. In the event of a tie, tiebreaker questions will be evaluated at the discretion of the CSSC eboard. Tiebreaker questions are described on the submission site. If a tie still holds after the tiebreaker questions, the team which completed the survey fastest is the winner.

The prize is a free pizza lunch from the Chemistry department (and bragging rights)! The winning team will be announced at our Happy Hour event 6-8 PM. If a free agent wins instead of a lab team, they’ll be paired with the top-ranking lab team for the pizza prize.

Scavenger Hunt Teams

The CSSC has divided all the labs into pairings to make it easier for smaller labs to compete. There are at least 15 people per team and a mix of theory/experimental groups. We strongly encourage collaboration within your team to complete this large scavenger hunt! The Chemistry department website has a list of students in each lab to facilitate communication.

If you’re not affiliated with one of our lab teams (for example: first year grad student, staff member, or undergraduate not in a lab), you can still do the scavenger hunt. Be sure to leave your name and contact info on the submission site.

McQueen	Yarkony
Thoi	Townsend
Fried	Bowen
Hernandez	Bragg
Klausen	Cheng
Tovar	Karlin
Huang	Fairbrother
Goldberg	Rokita
Toscano	Greenberg
Lectka	Kempa

Clues

Before you leave lab…

Scan the QR code on your lab’s emergency flowchart to complete these items.

• What is the secret code hidden on our emergency flowchart landing page? 57731
• What is Public Safety’s emergency phone extension? x6-7777
• What is the phone number for poison control? 800-222-1222
• How many Safety Captains does the CSSC have? 27
• Which Safety Moment was published in June 2023? Hazards and Safeguards for Liquid Nitrogen

AED puzzle

There is an automated external defibrillator (AED) in each of the below buildings. The CSSC has hidden parts of a special phrase at each AED. Fill in the secret letters found at each location. Unscramble the special phrase for bonus points!

Yum! Tasty Coal Tar Saccharin

• Mudd Hall CCSRN
• Macaulay AIHAM
• NCB UYSTA
• Remsen TYLOC
• Bloomberg AATR

UTL/Mudd

All items in this block can be found in UTL or Mudd Hall.

• By an oxygen monitor near where liquid nitrogen tanks are stored… UTL B62
• In the guts of a NMR… nmr display near G88
• By an evacuation map of the teaching labs on the first floor… near first floor elevators
• By the fire alarm pull on the top floor of the stairwell… just below roof exit
• Near some information on UTL’s energy efficient design… ground floor entrance
• A churl might hurl this _________ through the nearby glass windows… burl in Mudd atrium display case
• What is the room number for the Intro Chem stockroom? 288
• What is the room number for the Mudd Hall stockroom? 57
• What warnings are posted on the door to G88? High Magnetic Field
• Which is the phone number for UTL’s building manager? Hint: It’s posted on safety signage! 410-516-7458

Macaulay/tunnels

All items in this block can be found aboveground in Macaulay Hall or in the underground tunnels which run underneath the Chemistry department buildings.

• Where you can recycle pipette tip boxes… near Mudd side of Mudd-Macaulay tunnel
• Where gas cylinders are stored… near Macaulay side of Mudd-Macaulay tunnel
• Standing here between Remsen and Macaulay, you could call Public Safety without a cell phone… code on the blue light
• By the office for the campus radiation safety officer… Dunning 7
• An emergency exit sign overlooking a pair of magnolia trees… Macaulay entrance facing Dunning
• By a stockroom, and a fire alarm… by chem stockroom
• In what room could you find ice without water? SB21
• What is the room number for the biophys NMR director’s office? 153
• In which room can you get a new lab coat if yours is soiled? SB28
• What is the room number for Remsen and NCB’s building manager’s office? SB27

NCB

All items in this block can be found in the New Chemistry Building.

• By a radiation safety flyer on a bulletin board… 1st floor near professor offices
• By a poster introducing the Toscano group… 1st floor
• This map shows the fire department which room to visit first… fire alarm annunciator NCB 2nd floor facing Mergenthaler
• Were there a fire in the XRD room, a trained individual could go here… by XRD room
• And were there a fire in the office of the XRD manager, a trained individual could go here… by Max’s office
• The Goldberg and Karlin labs share this safety shower… 2nd floor
• This panel expresses its gratitude… 3rd floor
• Natural gas to the Kempa lab can be shut off here… 1st floor
• The Lectka lab parks its food and drink here, instead of in the lab… 3rd floor
• What room should you not store cardboard boxes in? cold room: 342

Remsen

All items in this block can be found in Remsen Hall.

• At the most accessible entrance to Remsen… basement entrance
• The nearest fire hose hookup to the Bowen lab… near Remsen 1
• This commemorative placard celebrates the first person to synthesize acetaminophen… Morse placard 1st floor
• If there’s a ghost anywhere… Remsen’s ashes!
• The Rokita lab keeps their drinks out of lab and right here… near 123
• By a fire extinguisher in a first floor break room… in 107
• This poster tells you all about ChemDNA… 1st floor
• And this one tells you all about the Klausen lab’s azoborine research… near 219
• On a bulletin board in a conference room, by a poster all about your wellbeing… in 200
• The Yarkony group could use this map to find a safe way out of the building… by 307
• This sign would point the way to an exit for your department’s financial officer… Yin Jiang’s office 333
• Prof. Fried could head here to clean up a spill in his lab… 1st floor research wing
• The Fellowship of the Fountain… Chambers fellowship in chemistry placard by 127
• Some photosynthesizing friends looking outside… 2nd floor plants
• A dead end… subbasement near the entrance
• What is the room number for the coldest place in Remsen? 123 (cold room)
• What is the room number for the hottest place in Remsen? 144 (autoclave)
• What is the room number for the administrative office? 138
• What color is the CSSC’s poster? white
• Room 335 Oxygen Lithium Vanadium Iodine Erbium (Dr. Olivier!)

Bloomberg

All items in this block can be found in the Bloomberg Center for Physics & Astronomy.

• By the oxygen monitor at the loading dock… 0 floor
• A pup-PE poster near the McQueen lab… by 332
• The person in this painting competes with Ira Remsen for the title of “sweetest man”… Joseph Sweetman Ames painting near 361
• This 4th floor poster discusses a PARADIM project applying machine learning to real crystal growths… 4th floor on concrete round
• A view of the observatory… 6th floor windows
• This model device was made by the professor for whom the Physics department was once named… Rowland ruling engine on 2nd floor
• A barrel of fun… 1st floor barrels for physics demos
• What is the room number of the student machine shop? 035
• What is the room number for Bloomberg’s building manager? 363
• What is the room number for a crystal growth user facility located inside Bloomberg? 104 or 102