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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Help w/ Work: Team Building Activities
I'm on a planning committee for our annual department picnic. We are supposed to brainstorm ideas of team building activities. An example of a game we did in the past was to create a protective shell around an egg so that you could drop it without the egg breaking.
Any ideas? Games or activities you've played in the past and liked?
Re: Help w/ Work: Team Building Activities
How many people will be participating? Is this something that you plan in advance, or is it done on the spot during the picnic? The egg drop thing sounds like it would need to be done ahead of time.
One of my favorite activities is the Human Knot, where you have everyone stand in a circle, then everyone joins right hands with someone across from them, and then joins left hands with someone different. The challenge is to move yourselves around to "untie" the knot you made without breaking hands. It forces everyone to work together, but people are obviously really close to one another, so it may not work if you have a lot of people who need to maintain their 'personal space'. If you have a large group, you can divide into smaller groups and race.
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I've done Sticks and Dots where you give each group a bag of spaghetti (uncooked) and a bag of gumdrops and the groups compete to see who can build the tallest tower in a certain period of time.
If this is something that the groups plan ahead of time, I know of something similar to the egg drop thing, but has to do with alkaseltzer (sp?) and water.
It's planned and prepped for in advance. There are about 80 people in the department, the game/activity can be done in varying sizes of groups.
Thanks for the suggestions so far, what is the alka-seltzer game?
So basically the alka-seltzer challenge is to create an object that will sink when placed into water, but will then rise to the surface (on it's own, without being touched) within X amount of time. You don't tell them to use alka-seltzer, but that is basically the key to it. My sister had to do it once, it was cool to see all the contraptions people came up with. You would need a large fish tank or container to test all the objects in, and you would need to decide on a set depth of the water and a set amount of time (it wasn't a lot of time, something like a minute or two or three, I don't remember). You could probably google it to find out the "real" rules and such.
I also always used to love things like playing "Jeopardy". You could create teams, and come up with a board of questions for them to go through (might be hard with 80 ppl, but you could have two different games going on at once).
HTH!