{"id":3123,"date":"2016-09-01T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T22:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2016-09-02T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:28:19","slug":"2016-photo-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/2016-photo-contest-winners","title":{"rendered":"2016 Photo Contest WINNERS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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 hundreds (yes, hundreds<\/em>!) of great images we received, but here are the photos that\u00a0stood out from the rest:<\/div>\n
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Best cultural immersion photo<\/strong> | Students experiencing an exciting and unique activity on tour
\nWinner:\u00a0Claudia K. during her Make A Difference: Tanzania tour<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nBest use of Explorica gear<\/strong> |\u00a0Students sporting Explorica sunglasses, luggage tags, or other logo gear
\nWinner:\u00a0Eden R. during her London, Paris & Italy tour<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nBest Canadian history photo<\/strong> | Students experiencing an iconic, historical Canadian landmark
\nWinner: Sarah L. during her Italian Campaign tour<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Most awe-inspiring moment<\/strong> |\u00a0Students experiencing a memorable moment in a remarkable place
\nWinner:\u00a0Kristina W. during her Costa Rica tour<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nBest educational moment<\/strong>|\u00a0Capture the\u00a0tour director or local teaching the students something new
\nWinner: Samantha V. during her Beijing, Xi’an & Shanghai tour
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\n<\/strong>And the Grand Prize winner is Jia Chen X.\u00a0<\/strong>for the best picture of a student with\u00a0their\u00a0educator during his D-Day London & France tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nCongratulations 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 hundreds (yes, hundreds!) of great images we received, but here are the photos that\u00a0stood out from the rest: Best cultural immersion photo | Students experiencing an Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[409,60,62],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explorica-news","tag-409","tag-explorica","tag-photo-contest","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}