The Testing Center was the last place Kyle Sager was going to look before giving up on his egg hunt when he looked in a window well, and there it was - an egg. His persistence paid off when he opened the egg to find he had won an iPod nano.

"I was looking for it because our teacher told us there was an Easter egg hunt going on, so a bunch of us left class to go look," Sager said, a junior from Boise, Idaho majoring in landscape management.

The BYU Bookstore organized a massive egg hunt on campus Wednesday, which included 100 hidden eggs. These eggs, however, were not just any old eggs; they contained prizes, such as one video iPod, an iPod nano, an iPod shuffle and Bookstore gift cards.

"We decided to do this because of the centennial year," said Kaylene Vest, marketing specialist for the BYU Bookstore. "We purposely waited until the day of to say anything, so nobody heard about it. I think we caught a lot of people off guard."

The full-time members of the Grounds Crew hid the eggs early Wednesday morning (April 12, 2006), Vest said. Most of the eggs were hidden in crevices and not in bushes or trees in order to preserve the landscaping. Roy Peterman, the grounds director, is the one who hid the golden egg - the grand prize of the video iPod. The prize was claimed Wednesday morning by BYU student, Ian Robertson.

Not everyone was as lucky as Ian Robertson. Some found eggs without anything included. James Fowler, a junior from Atlanta majoring in sociology, has a co-worker, Jeff Heit from Minot, N.D. who found an egg, but it was not what he expected.

"Jeff was out looking for an egg, but he didn't know what they were supposed to look like, so he found one and turned it in," Fowler said. "It turns out that in the end, it was a real duck egg with an embryo inside and everything."

Prank eggs were also hidden on campus, but not by the Bookstore. One BYU student came into The Daily Universe ready to claim her prize. Unfortunately, The Daily Universe had nothing for her and had no idea what she was talking about.

Even with the pranks, the hunt was a success.

"Yesterday was a lot of fun; it seems students really enjoyed it," said Rowdy Symons, creative services manager for the BYU Bookstore. "Faculty and staff were even out there looking. Families came too, and there were little kids running around looking."

Students looked everywhere for the eggs, some even got down on hands and knees.

"I was walking around the Maeser Building, and we saw some guy literally crawling out of a bush," said Casey Stauffer, advertising director of The Daily Universe. "It was funny to see couples holding hands and looking down and around windows."

The prizes of the eggs can be claimed up to the end of the month, and only one egg can be turned in per student.

The Bookstore has more events in mind for the centennial year.

"We're trying to do things once a month to celebrate the centennial year," Vest said. "Next month we will be doing something as well."



Copyright Brigham Young University 13 Apr 2006