2010 MPI/NE Summer Industry Outing brought to you by SCVNGR
Thursday, August 12, 2010

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.    Opening Reception at The Fairmont Copley Plaza
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.   SCVNGR Hunt Interactive Mobile Game
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.   Closing Reception at The Westin Copley Place

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The New England meetings industry takes Boston’s Back Bay!  Please join MPI/NE and our affiliate meetings and events associations for a summer outing to top all summer outings. 

Over 200 meeting professionals will embark on a fun and exciting mobile SCVNGR hunt through all the best venues and establishments Boston’s Back Bay has to offer. 

Riddles and challenges, all sent directly to each team’s mobile phones, will allow everyone to experience Boston in a way they never have before.  Challenges answered bring each team closer to victory…as well as a great industry-wide closing reception at The Westin Copley Place.  The 2010 MPI/NE Summer Industry Outing brought to you by SCVNGR is the perfect forum to interact with colleagues, counterparts, and members of other associations in a casual and fun setting.

An interactive mobile game, SCVNGR, will prompt teams to scour Boston’s best meeting venues and eating establishments in search of answers to fun riddles and challenges. SCVNGR is a game about going places, doing challenges, and earning points. They are a location based mobile gaming platform that enables anyone to develop, deploy and manage sophisticated location-based mobile games that can be played from any mobile phone on any carrier.

MPI/NE has built a custom trek on SCVNGR with custom challenges at venues across Boston’s Back Bay area to provide a fun and new teambuilding atmosphere for the summer outing. It is a chance for meeting planners, event planners, and suppliers to intermingle with other industry associations while touring many great locations and venues that could be used for their next meeting! The growing trend of mobile interaction, along with the fun-filled clue activities, is sure to draw the largest crowd the Meeting Industry Summer Outing has seen in the past decade!

CSR Component
We will be requiring all sponsored challenge locations within the SCVNGR to donate items that will be beneficial for Horizons for Homeless Children.  As teams arrive at challenge locations, they will be placing these items in their tote bags.  At the end of the event, we expect to have hundreds of tote bags full of much-needed supplies for Horizons for Homeless Children.

Horizons for Homeless Children
There are more than 100,000 homeless children in Massachusetts, and half of them are under the age of six.  Through their three Community Children’s Centers, Horizons for Homeless Children (HHC) provides early education and care to 175 children between the ages of 2 months and 6 years each day.  While these children are learning and thriving, their parents are working, in school, gaining the necessary tools to become economically self-sufficient and searching for permanent housing.  Additionally, HHC has built and equipped special play areas through their Playspace Programs in over 140 family homeless shelters across Massachusetts.  More than 1,400 dedicated HHC volunteers regularly visit these shelters to teach and play directly with the children staying there. Through these two direct service programs, HHC provides resources to homeless families and creates opportunities for discovery, personal connection, and learning, allowing these young, homeless children to just be kids.  In addition to direct service, Horizons for Homeless Children advocates on behalf of homeless children and their families with policy makers and provides training and technical assistance to related service providers.  For more information on Horizons for Homeless Children, visit www.horizonsforhomelesschildren.org.

Clue Sponsors

• Grill 23 & Bar
• Post 390
• Capital Grille
• Radisson
• Cafeteria
• Rentals Unlimited

Interested in becoming a “Clue Sponsor?” Unique opportunities are still available!
Please contact one of the 2010 MPI/NE Summer Industry Outing
brought to you by SCVNGR Co-chairs for more information.

Parking Information:
Parking is available for $7.00 with validation at the 100 Clarendon Street Parking Garage and after 4pm at the St. James Avenue Parking Garage.  Back Bay Events Center will sponsor the parking validation.  Validation can be obtained at the registration desk the night of the event.

Meeting Industry Summer Outing Co-Chairs:
John Valentine John@scvngr.com
Sarah Hamilton, CMP Sarah_Hamilton@Ingenix.com

Sponsors