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Orientation resource race
Advising, counseling, IT help desk, the rec center. Teams race to find every office that will matter later, with bonus points for a photo with a staff member.
Welcome Week students actually finish.
Turn the checklist nobody reads into a race across campus. Teams earn points at the career center, the library and the tutoring office, meet each other on the way, and finish the week knowing where things are.
42 challenges
for ~100 MBA students across Evanston, in under 3 hours
Kellogg's ACE program turned Evanston into a welcome race for incoming MBA students.
Read the Kellogg story~100incoming MBA students on one race
42challenges across Evanston
<3 hrsstart to finish
Everything an orientation checklist does, minus the clipboard.
A checklist works because it tells new students where to go. Roamli keeps the list and gives them a reason to finish it: points, a team and a race they can see.
The jobThe old wayWith Roamli
Finding campus resources
A checklist in a tote bag
Every office a challenge worth points
Helping people meet
Icebreakers in a lecture hall
Teams of strangers solving clues across campus
Keeping photos appropriate
A public hashtag
Your team approves every submission first
Mid-event changes
A group chat half never joined
An alert on every phone, with seen counts
Rewards
A raffle drawn at the end
Prizes unlocked on the spot, claimed at the bookstore
Crowning a winner
An hour of tallying
A live leaderboard, final the moment review ends
Put the places that matter on the map.
Students who find the tutoring center in September are the ones who use it in November. Walk them past advising, counseling and the rec center in order, set teams loose on a hunt across campus, or hand them a list of clues and let the ones who know campus best win. Tag stops Academic, Wellness or Food so students can filter the map.
Walking Tour
A set path, stop to stop, with an optional line connecting them on the map. Made for history walks, art trails, campus tours and anything with a story to tell in order.
Scavenger Hunt
Every stop in play at once, in any order. Hunts show a search zone instead of the exact spot, so teams still have to look, and the fastest planners win.
List Only
No map needed. The challenge list is the whole game, so it works anywhere: across a city, around a campus, or through every floor of your office.
You see every photo before it counts.
Every stop asks for proof: a team photo under the arch, a short video at the rec center, the answer to a riddle about the library. It all comes to your review gallery, not to a public feed. Approve photos in bulk, decline anything as incorrect or inappropriate, and change a decision later if you need to. Trivia answers that match your accepted answers approve themselves, so staff spend their time on the photos that need a human.
A race they check between every stop.
A live leaderboard turns "I should probably go to the library" into "we're 20 points behind third." Players see their points land on their phone the moment you approve a submission. When plans change, one announcement reaches every player, pinned where they'll see it. Prizes unlock automatically and are claimed at the bookstore counter, where staff tap Redeem so each one is used once.
Live
Leaderboard
Sample
Waiting for the next approval…
Running a whole class? Plan it like this.
A freshman class is a different job from a hundred MBA students. The setup is the same; the planning is about teams, waves and how fast your staff want to review photos.
Your class1,200
Students, in teams of five or six.
Phones submitting~200
One Captain per team sends the photos.
Plan your orientation with us
On a 30-minute demo call we'll size your waves, staffing and challenge list around your class, and walk you through how Kellogg's ACE program ran its hunt for about 100 incoming MBA students. Book a demo
Real welcomes. Real races.
A campus welcome, plus two city-wide races run on the same tools your orientation would use.
Northwestern Kellogg
42 challenges
for about 100 incoming international MBA students getting to know Evanston, in under three hours.
Read the story
The Simple Good
Nearly 500 submissions
judged, and the podium set within two minutes of the final whistle. The hunt raised $30,000+ for 400 students.
Read the story
Roamli original
114 challenges
hidden until a 10:00 kickoff, with the live leaderboard moving on every Captain's phone for three hours.
Read the recapWhy welcome weeks run better on Roamli.
It all comes back to one thing: students who finish, and know where to go next.
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They find the places that matter
Every office is a stop worth points, so the tutoring center they find in September is the one they use in November.
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A race they want to finish
A live leaderboard and points that land the moment you approve keep teams moving to the last stop.
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You see every photo first
Submissions land in your review gallery, not a public feed, and nothing counts until your team approves it.
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One code for the whole class
Students join from any phone browser with a link or QR code, with no app to install and no per-student fee.
One plan, every program on the calendar.
Events are unlimited on Creator and Creator Pro, so the hunt you build for orientation is just the first one.
Floor-vs-floor challenge
Each floor plays as a team with one Captain phone. Your RAs get a reason to rally, and the standings give the whole building something to talk about.
Involvement fair passport
Turn a crowded quad into a loop: a trivia question at every club table and a photo challenge at the ones that want new members most.
Welcome to your new town
What Kellogg did for its international MBA students: a hunt through the town around campus, from Weber Arch to "The Rock", so newcomers meet the local community in their first weeks.
How Kellogg ran itAlumni & tradition hunt
The traditions, the old haunts, the plaque nobody reads. Alumni and students play side by side, and the photo zip is ready to download as soon as the game ends.
Admitted-student day
A self-guided loop families can play between sessions, with stops that show off the campus you want them to picture themselves on.
From kickoff call to Welcome Week.
Hands-on or hands-off. Your team can build it in the portal, or ours can build it with you.
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Step 1
Kickoff call
We talk through your program, headcount, dates and the offices you want on the map.
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Step 2
Build the hunt
Drop challenges on the map yourself, or hand it to us. With The Roamli Touch, our team writes the challenges and sets everything up.
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Step 3
Test walk & launch
Walk it with your student staff, then share one link or QR code. Roamli builds a Player Guide page so every team knows the rules.
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Move-in week
Game day & recap
Review submissions as they arrive and watch the leaderboard move. Afterward, download every photo and video for your slideshow.
Plans from $49/mo, or we build it.
One annual plan can cover orientation, res life, homecoming and admitted-student day. There's no per-event or per-student fee.
Build it yourself
Use our builder to create, launch and monitor your event yourself. Add your challenges, set your start and end times, share one link, and you're live.
$49/mo and up
See plans
Ready-to-Go
We adapt one of our starting formats (holiday office hunt, downtown shop-local, orientation week, art walk) to your place and your people.
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The Roamli Touch
Want our team to handle design, setup and launch? Or just some extra help and peace of mind? We design, build and run it with you.
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What orientation teams ask us.
Each answer opens the page with the full story.
How many students can play at once?
One code works for the whole class. Kellogg's hunt ran about 100 students at once, and for bigger classes we'll size waves and review staffing with you.
Read the Kellogg storyWhat if a student submits something inappropriate?
Nothing counts until your team approves it. Decline it from the review gallery and it earns no points, and nothing is posted to a public feed.
See submission reviewWhat student data does Roamli collect?
An email address and username per player, plus the photos, videos and answers your challenges ask for. No connection to your student information system or campus SSO.
Security and privacyWhat do we get afterward?
A participants table with each team's points and submissions, counts for every challenge, and a zip of every photo and video for your recap.
See the recapCan you build it for us?
Yes. Creator Pro includes event creation support and a success manager, and The Roamli Touch is fully done-for-you.
See servicesCan campus partners put up the prizes?
Yes. The bookstore or a local sponsor can offer a reward, and their staff tap Redeem on the student's phone so each one is used once.
See how prizes workEverything else Roamli can do
Challenges, live leaderboards, rewards, messaging, submission review, branding and player onboarding, all on one platform.
See all featuresTell us about your orientation.
Share your dates and headcount. We'll come back with ideas for your hunt, a rough plan and the right plan for your office.
A reply within one business dayFrom someone on our team, not a bot.
Campus-testedKellogg's ACE program ran its Evanston welcome hunt on Roamli.
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Let's sketch your Welcome Week hunt.
A 30-minute call. We'll map your first stops live, on your actual campus.