As campers from past years know, and as new campers are now to learn, it is traditional at Camp Quest for your beloved Camp Director to provide, on the first night of camp, certain "Challenges" to you, our campers, and invite you to provide answers to these Challenges on the last night of camp.

As you probably know, the S.S. Quest, the spaceship Camp Quest campers assisted with their advice in 1997, the second year of Camp Quest, arrived safely on the newly discovered planet Questerion on November 26, 2000.

Since that time, our campers have provided important information to the Questerians on whether their civilization should develop along lines of science, critical inquiry, and reason, or along lines of religious belief, mysticism, and proof by faith, as urged by their powerful and rapidly growing priesthood.

The people of this planet communicate with us through a wormhole that is open for only a few hours each year. We have scheduled Camp Quest so that this happens on the last night of Camp Quest. Remember that the Questerions can only process information from us that is provided in creative, active forms, such as drama, music, and dance. They do not like lectures or dull statements that are just read to them. Please present your answers in a lively, manner that will both entertain and inform.

This year staff may work with the campers in the preparation and presentation of your answers. This may be our last ever contact, so be clear and creative; show them your best and the best that Camp Quest has to offer.

Please limit your responses to ten (10) minutes per cabin.

Did some being design our planet and us? Wouldn’t it take an intelligence of some sort or other to put together something as complicated as living things? Many say there is no other possible good explanation for how we got here? Is there? What do you think? Why?

We would like to have a religion. On our planet there are many different countries, races, and languages. There are many different laws and customs. No one knows anything about any religion, but everyone wants a religion. Please make up a religion for us which will be a good religion that everyone on our planet can believe and that will make life better for everyone all of the time.

Let's say that you could start everything all over again on your planet Earth. Imagine that you suddenly have no rules or laws of any kind. Imagine that you have no countries and no religions. But that you do have many different races and many different languages. Please make up ten (10) rules that everyone on the planet Earth would have to obey at all times. These must be rules everyone will agree with, and they must be rules that will make life better for everyone all the time.

We have heard that there are two invisible unicorns at Camp Quest. We have heard that you cannot see them, touch them, smell them, or hear them; that you can walk right through them, that they cannot fly, and that they never leave the camp. Please explain to us the difference between something that is invisible and something that does not exist.

Can you tell us seven (7) things the people of your planet have learned of importance since human beings started living together in groups? Why are these things important?

Good Luck. The future of a world is in your hands.

Edwin.