BYT Crowd Cares About Planet; Latest Local Tourist Series Event Takes Over NatGeo HQ!

"What's a bear like you doing in a place like this?"

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The Guest List:

NORTHWEST -- While James Cameron might have commanded attention just days earlier during National Geographic’s annual ‘Evening of Exploration’ gala, it was a different sort of adventurer who turned-out on Friday night to the iconic media company’s headquarters for Brightest Young Things’s latest sold-out party.

Part of BYT’s ‘Local Tourist Series’, which is designed to expose young Washingtonians to some often overlooked nearby museums and locations, the late night (8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.) celebration leveraged National Geographic’s storied museum exhibits and venue space to blend a little bit of academia with the requisite revelry.

Here’s what ticketholders got to experience:

• A series of live martial arts demonstrations throughout the night.
  
  
  
  
• …some even performed with snazzy glow sticks!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A good guy/girl ratio.
  
  
  
  
• The chance to learn something.
  
  
  
  
• A short-lived cruise of sorts…
  
  
  
  
• All the ‘xorbing’ they could handle.
  
  
  
  
• People dressed-up as shrubbery.
  
  
  
  
• The chance to meet and drink with new friends.
  
  
  
  
• Really cool backlighting.
  
  
  
  
• Live music and comedy.
  
  
  
  
• The chance to mate with a plastic rhinoceros while being cheered-on by your friends.
  
  
  
  
• A whirlwind of emotion.
  
  
  
  
• The chance to jump rope with guys and girls in masks.
  
  
  
  
• …then the opportunity to make cute cat faces for photographers with said masks.
  
  
  
  

Be sure to check out all 149 of our photographs from this event HERE!