{"id":6522,"date":"2016-09-01T14:24:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2016-09-02T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:34:14","slug":"2016-photo-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/2016-photo-contest-winners","title":{"rendered":"2016 Photo Contest WINNERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We asked. And you responded with resounding enthusiasm!\u00a0Thank you<\/strong>\u00a0for submitting a record number of fantastic images\u00a0to our annual photo contest.\u00a0It was incredibly<\/em> difficult to choose the winners from the thousands (yes, thousands<\/em>!) of great images we received, but here are the photos that\u00a0stood out from the rest:<\/p>\n

Best cultural\u00a0immersion photo |\u00a0<\/strong>Students experiencing\u00a0an exciting and unique\u00a0activity on tour
\nWINNER: Allison M.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/p>\n

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Best use of Explorica gear\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>Students sporting Explorica sunglasses, luggage tags, or other\u00a0logo gear
\nWINNER: Ellen S.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"5\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Best North American tour\u00a0photo|\u00a0<\/strong>Students having fun in front of an iconic, identifiable North American landmark
\nWINNER: Rachel V.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\"2\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Most awe-inspiring moment |\u00a0<\/strong>Students experiencing a\u00a0memorable moment in a remarkable place
\nWINNER: Emma L.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\"1\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Best educational moment|\u00a0<\/strong>Capture a moment when a tour director or local is teaching the students something new.<\/em><\/p>\n

WINNER: Kylee M.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\"4\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the Grand Prize winner is Julia P.\u00a0<\/strong>for the best picture of a student with\u00a0their\u00a0educator<\/p>\n

\"6\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Congratulations to all our winners! You will be contacted directly regarding your prize.
\nFor more exceptional photos, check out our facebook page<\/a><\/strong>! We’ve created an album with some of our favorite submissions. We can’t wait to see what happens next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We asked. And you responded with resounding enthusiasm!\u00a0Thank you\u00a0for submitting a record number of fantastic images\u00a0to our annual photo contest.\u00a0It was incredibly difficult to choose the winners from the thousands (yes, thousands!) of great images we received, but here are the photos that\u00a0stood out from the rest: Best cultural\u00a0immersion photo |\u00a0Students experiencing\u00a0an exciting and unique\u00a0activity Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,300,63,172],"tags":[345,58,196,437,59,128,425],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explorica-news","category-student-photo-contest","category-students","category-teachers","tag-educational-tours","tag-educational-travel","tag-educational-travel-photo","tag-student-photos","tag-student-tours","tag-student-travel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}