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🥁 Drumroll, please… Our 2025 GRAND PRIZE WINNER is 🥁 Drumroll, please…
Our 2025 GRAND PRIZE WINNER is…

🦌 Rein-Deer-God-Why Scene Techs 🦌

By completing the challenges and making it all the way through the Great Reindeer Scavenger Hunt, your team truly sleighed the competition.
You’ve earned:
🏆 A $300 Gap Science prize pack
🏆 A full year inside The Vault for every team member (a $300 value per person)

TOTAL VAULE = $1,800!!!

Incredible work—congratulations!

💚 And finally—to every team who participated:
THANK YOU! Truly.

You turned a holiday game into something bigger: connection, generosity, laughter, and community in a profession that deserves all of it. Whether you completed one challenge or every single one, you helped make this year’s Reindeer Games unforgettable.

We’re already dreaming up what’s next—but for now, we hope you carry a little of this holiday cheer with you into the new year.

Happiest Holidays!
Love the Gap Science Team
Reindeer Games Winners Round-Up! The sleigh bells Reindeer Games Winners Round-Up!

The sleigh bells have been ringing nonstop, and we had to pause and celebrate the incredible teams who’ve already taken home some serious holiday loot:

Amino the Black Nosed Reindeer — our entire sticker collection
Sleigh-tent Print Unit — a set of 5 notebooks
Marshmallow Whorld — a set of 6 mousepads
Overprocessed — a set of 4 t-shirts
Chestnuts Roasting, Bodies Decomposing — our 2025 Latent Print Processing Flowchart

That’s $300+ in prizes already awarded… and we’re not done yet 👀

🎁 Still to come:
One Grand Prize Winner will take home a $300 prize pack AND every team member gets a full year inside The Vault (a $300 value per person). Yeah… it’s a big one.

If you missed any of the magic, scroll back through our recent posts to see the creativity, teamwork, and forensic brilliance these teams brought to the Reindeer Games this week.

The grand prize winner is almost here… 🥁 drum roll please
Congratulations to the Chestnuts Roasting, Bodies Congratulations to the Chestnuts Roasting, Bodies Decomposing Team, our Challenge #5 Daily Prize winner! Your completion of The Great Reindeer Scavenger Hunt earned you our 2025 Latent Print Processing Flowchart. 🎁

Thanks for playing — now on to the Grand Prize Winner!
The Great Reindeer Scavenger Hunt… the challenge t The Great Reindeer Scavenger Hunt… the challenge that brought out the inner investigator in all of us.🔍🦌

Teams worked their way through forensic-themed clues, solved each riddle, and collected letters along the way — all leading to one final task: unscramble the letters to unlock the last page.

And guess what? 10 teams cracked the case and completed the hunt. 👏

This scavenger hunt wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible forensic businesses we featured along the way. Huge thank-you and shout-out to the experts who help keep this field moving forward — and who made these clues extra fun for our players.

(In the graphics, you’ll see every clue and the letter revealed for each correct answer 👀)

Think you could do it too?
Scroll through the clues, test your forensic knowledge, and see if you can answer every question and unscramble the letters to reveal the final password — just like our Reindeer Games teams did.

Because nothing says holiday fun like teamwork, problem-solving, and a little forensic brainpower.
Congratulations to the Overprocessed Team, our Cha Congratulations to the Overprocessed Team, our Challenge #4 Daily Prize winner! Your random act of kindness earned you four of our t-shirts. 🎁

Thanks for bringing the creativity — one more sleigh ride stop ahead!
One of our NEW favorite Reindeer Games challenges? One of our NEW favorite Reindeer Games challenges? Random Acts of Kindness.

And wow… your Reindeer Games teams showed up.

This week we saw teams:
✨ Drop off donuts to patrol
✨ Deliver cookies to Communications, IT, security, and facilities
✨ Leave notes and treats on desks
✨ Refill snack stations and paying it forward at vending machines
✨ Step in to help a teammate by processing their guns

But we also saw moments that went deeper.

❤️ A team chose to redirect a planned staff lunch to a student and their family—because a few days of meals meant more than a few hours of a staff lunch. No photos. Just care, dignity, and doing the right thing.

❤️ Another team drove clear across town for the one store that sells canned turkey—because helping a family have a holiday meal is always worth the extra miles.

❤️ Teams collected clothing donations, delivered them with pride, and reminded us what teamwork and community really look like.

❤️ And so many of you took time to thank the behind-the-scenes heroes—IT, security, facilities—the people who keep everything running, safe, and functional so the rest of us can do our jobs.

This challenge reminded us of something important:
Forensic work is about selfless acts of service. Always has been.

So… why stop now?
Let’s keep the random acts of kindness going this week—big or small, loud or quiet.

Because kindness doesn’t need a challenge to matter.

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