I’m not quite sure what’s going here at the ConQwest 2004 game. It appears to involve Semacode scanning, high school girls, giant inflatable animal totems, and Dennis Crowley, one of the folks behind Dodgeball. (And really, I had you at high school girls, didn’t I, sicko?) ConQwest sounds like a lot of fun, as competing teams of kids run around their cities scanning codes, wagering points, hefting floating bears as long as a bus from zone to zone, and ultimately winning (if they’re lucky) a cash prize of $5,000 for their school.
I’m doing an awful job trying to explain it, mostly because it completely baffles me. They’ve done it in three towns already, though, and Salt Lake City is still going to let them do it tomorrow, so apparently they’ve convinced the city councils that cameraphones and 30-foot tubular weasels are educational.
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