EMERGE Scholars vs Lantern Hunt

App for high school, college students, and alumni of the EMERGE Scholars program located in Houston, TX. Scholars will use this app to communicate with staff, manage EMERGE deadlines, and engage with program events and activities.

A decentralized, people-powered campaign to protect native habitats and eradicate invasive species. Lantern Hunt turns invasive-species removal into a community effort. The first target is the spotted lanternfly: find adults and egg masses, document your removals, and earn points for verified kills. See it. Snap it. Stomp it. Score. Through a gamified platform, Lantern Hunt makes it easy—and fun—for anyone to take part. Hunters can track verified removals on the map, compete on the leaderboard, build streaks, customize their lanternfly, and collect nymph companions as they contribute to the larger eradication effort. Lantern Hunt also helps hunters identify spotted lanternflies and egg masses in the wild, turning individual action into useful, geographically distributed removal data. Features include: • Submit spotted lanternfly and egg mass removals for verification • Earn points for verified removals • See removal activity on the community map • Compete with other hunters on the leaderboard • Learn to identify spotted lanternflies and egg masses • Build streaks and track your impact • Unlock cosmetics and customize your lanternfly • Hatch eggs and collect nymph companions Hunt locally. Compete together. Protect native habitats.