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Fun & Motivating Events
Sometimes simply having fun and sharing a common experience are perfect for groups and teams. These high energy, safe and inclusive activities are tailored for such occasions. Elements of teamwork and competition are built into these community-building activities where participants share experiences with each other in a different light - one that is fun and stress-free. Feelings of camaraderie and the sense that "we are all in this together" are inspired and an upbeat outcome tends to emerge naturally as a result of people having fun together.
Amazing Race
Have you seen the TV reality show The Amazing Race? We have developed our own team building version based on this very popular program. Teams compete in this unforgettable race, complete with detours, fast forwards, pit stops, roadblocks, route markers, and yields. Drawing from our extensive list of physical and mental team building challenges, our race experts will design a program that best accommodates the abilities of your group.
Over The Top Olympics
For countless millennia, the Olympics have created a sense of community, camaraderie and healthy competition throughout the world. This year our Over The Top Olympics will take that one step further and include side splitting laughter, wild and crazy competitions, and huge dose of team spirit!
The over the top Olympics will begin with the formation of teams, colorful flags and anthems. Once our Olympic community has been created, we will have an official torch lighting ceremony and let the games begin!!!
Charity Bike Build
Bicycle Building is an incredibly satisfying way of practicing the skills characteristic of high performance teams while having fun and helping others at the same time. The goal is to build bicycles that will be donated to deserving children within the allotted time and with the instructions and tools provided. The level of instruction will vary from team to team and bike to bike. Some of the skills that are utilized during this exercise include: team dynamics and communications, problem solving, focusing on quality versus quantity, and sharing data.
When all of the bikes are completed, the children are brought in and their bikes (plus helmets for safe riding!) are presented to them. The looks on their faces are worth more than anything money can buy! Charity Bicycle Build is a great way to get to know each other and work together as a team while leaving the participants with a profound sense of accomplishment.
The Great Scavenger Hunt
Each team in this fun, energizing activity is supplied with a list of various objects and a camera. They earn points by finding and returning the various objects on the list, maximizing photo opportunities, showing unique skills, and overall team enthusiasm. Teams are given a small window of planning time and sent away to earn as many points as possible within a very tight time frame.
BYOB- Build Your Own BBQ
In this sizzling team challenge, your group will have to literally build their own BBQ. After a brief warm-up, groups will have to catch fire as they are presented with a series of exciting challenges, ranging from mild to spicy, that they will absolutely eat up! Each challenge allows them the opportunity to secure more ingredients for their part of BBQ. What’s at steak you ask? Once the challenges are done being served up, each group will have to quickly formulate their shopping list to create a culinary delight to appease the appetites of the judging panel. Crowning the Charcoal Champions will be the last order of business before the smorgasbord starts.
Bridge Building
Here's the challenge: Your materials include cardboard, a tape measure, a knife, and of course, duct tape! Now, build a bridge using only these materials that will be able to sustain the weight of a golf cart driven across it!! Sound impossible? Most teams believe it is when they start the activity, but it can be done. This event creates a truly exciting experience for all involved and the celebration that happens as the golf cart drives across the bridge, is unbelievable! It presents teams with a next-to-impossible challenge that will leave them with a “you won't believe what we did” story that will last for a long time. The final team photo of the entire group standing with the bridge is priceless!
Formula 1 Go-Kart Classic
This is an event that people will remember for a long time! The group is divided into teams and supplied with materials to build a go-kart in a limited amount of time. The winner is decided in a hilarious race around the track.
Fusion Regatta
Here's the chance to see what's more important: Having the right people on the boat or making sure everyone is rowing in the right direction! A key customer with specific requirements has just placed an order for a fleet of boats. Each team must work together to build a boat for the fleet. The customer will be looking for a fleet of boats that meets their specifications, looks good and goes fast. In fact, each boat will be tested for its seaworthiness in a race around a series of buoys. Ships ahoy!
Catapult Building
Each team has to use their combined creative brain power to build a catapult while at the same time making decisions around investments in market research, equipment and inter-team collaboration. The task is further complicated by a limited budget, multiple scenarios and a tight time frame (just like work!). The activity has multiple levels which add to the challenge and fun. The pressure to perform is high, but so are the laughs as each team attempts to win new customers while maximizing profits and launching objects far into the distance.
The Mystery of da Vinci
Experience the thrill of the ancient search for the Grail with all the excitement of the bestselling book, The Da Vinci Code. Typically staged at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, teams will be given dossiers filled with maps, clues and secret decoding envelopes. Then, they're off…on a hunt through the world's most beloved art collection. Can your team succeed on their quest to solving the mystery by opening the cryptex and finding the treasure? This is sure to be a wild ride filled with intrigue and adventure.
U Build it, U Hit It Mini-Golf
Golf balls, putters and greens, oh my! Here's a golfing activity that everybody can participate in and feel like Tiger Woods. Create your own St. Andrews or Augusta National mini-golf course using materials such as cardboard, duct tape, cans, PVC pipes, plungers, sand, broomsticks, wooden dowels…and whatever else you can think of. Afterwards, all of the holes are connected and the mini-golf tournament begins! Anything goes as long as the hole is no more then a par 4.
The Hunt for the Golden Gorilla- Bronx Zoo
Early this morning our zookeepers were shocked to notice that the infamous Golden Gorilla and his family have been removed from their podium within the confines of the Congo Gorilla Forest here at the Bronx Zoo. At first, they were under the assumption that the items were taken for cleaning and care, which would be unusual in and of itself, but soon found there was a more devious explanation to the sudden vanishing.
Upon reporting the missing treasure to the Zoo Intelligence Agency (ZIA) they were informed that no cleaning was scheduled for this week. Through further investigation, the ZIA painstakingly combed through footage across the zoo covering the past 24 hours.
To their amazement, the ZIA’s surveillance footage revealed an individual who is well know within this realm; Dr. Fred Jones!!! Dr. Jones has been suspected masterminding some of the most heinous crimes in zoological history including stealing the infamous Sterling Seal from the San Diego Zoo and Platinum Platypus from the Houston Zoo…
Corporate Masterpiece
The challenge is for each team to recreate their portion of a customized masterpiece utilizing their artistic, networking and communication skills. We'll work with you to design a meaningful piece of art that incorporates your meeting theme, company message and/or logo – the possibilities are limitless!
Treasure Hunt Mission Impossible
With your carefully selected team of treasure hunters, you will trace a puzzling set of clues, find landmarks, overcome challenges, answer questions, and solve the mystery of the treasure. All in the quest to find the golden coin and hopefully, the key to the treasure chest.
Corporate Game Shows
Great fun and lots of laughs. TV game shows are adapted to reflect your company. Emcee and contestant consoles with electronic scoring and lockout signaling are included.
Fusion Chili CookOff
Who makes the best chili? You and your team will have the opportunity to participate in this great debate and unleash the fire of your restless and ornery chili soul. The Fusion Chili Cookoff combines physical activities and brainteasing tasks with a cooking competition that tests the team’s culinary talents. Teams are faced with a series of competitive activities where they earn “grocery money” that will be used to purchase ingredients needed to create the world’s greatest chili.
Drum Works
This event has been called: “A brilliant, electrifying and high impact team unifying session!”“An unforgettable experience!” and “Amazing! It left us with a buzz!” Of course it has, because music has the power to transform, inspire, move, and motivate us both as individuals and groups. It is one of the oldest forms of communication and a shaping force in our world. Imagine the effect of your entire company making music together! Drum Works is guaranteed to add energy to your conference, team building event, celebration, product launch, awards dinner, or training program. This interactive team building drumming process breaks down barriers, reduces stress, and has a great unifying effect... and most of all, it is completely unforgettable.
So You Want to Be a Star
Lights, camera, action! You and your crew will be making your own rendition of a Hollywood classic movie. There are numerous roles that need to be filled from, directing, camera man, and acting, just to name a few. To add more pressure to your “big break,” your movie is up for a series of awards including, Best Film. You've been handed a chance to become a star…will you shine?
Music Video Awards
So you want to be a rock star? We can make it happen! Teams write, produce, direct, and act in their very own music video using karaoke music, costumes, make-up – and of course- their creativity and imagination. Later, after all the videos are shot, the Music Video Awards ceremony begins. The videos are premiered, people cheer and prizes are awarded. Music Video Awards is truly an individual and team transforming team building activity that people will be talking about for a long time.
Record Breakers
Imagine a team building event unlike anything you have ever seen before--30 brazenly hilarious and competitive events and 30 records to break...all at the same time!!! Regardless of physical ability, everyone can participate.
Ultimate Fusion
Imagine a team building event unlike anything you have ever seen before – a competition combining the best elements of Jeopardy, Let's Make a Deal, and Guinness World Records. Teams must work together to complete a variety of mental and activity-based challenges to earn the golden key that will unlock their treasure chest. Nobody knows what is in the chest. Is it a reward or is it the gag prize? However, they may opt to trade their key to seek bigger and better prizes or another surprise. There's no room to watch from the bleachers, because everybody can play, regardless of physical ability. This activity combines competition with collaboration and creativity. Hysterical, outrageous, uproarious, side-splitting fun is guaranteed!
The Ultimate Game
Imagine a giant game board, large enough to accommodate your entire group. Divided into sub-teams, they work their way around the game board, furiously trying to answer company-specific trivia questions and complete "team challenges." Teams earn points for new team records, team spirit, creativity, and enthusiasm! The Ultimate Game can be played with 50-300 people.
Raft Building
A great event is guaranteed! Raft building is a great team building event, guaranteed to separate the floaters from the lead balloons! Which of your friends and colleagues would you rather be marooned with?!
Raft Building focuses on group dynamics, communication skills and leadership. The group is presented with the challenge of building rafts out of limited resources. They must work together on all stages from selecting their materials, to designing, building, and finally paddling their rafts.
This is a safe and incredibly enjoyable event!
Fusion Chef
There is something about cooking a meal and breaking bread that brings groups and teams together. Add a little competition into the recipe and you have a fantastic team building culinary experience. Playing the role of some of their favorite gourmet personalities, teams will compete against each other to select ingredients and prepare a gourmet entrée that will be judged by professional chefs.
A Night At The Improv
Modeled somewhat after the TV show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? this hysterical performance is performed by a seasoned troupe of improvisational comedians. Audience participation is highly encouraged. A Night at the Improv audience will provide a wonderful opportunity for people to laugh at themselves and each other in a fun and friendly environment. Guaranteed to provide non-stop, side-splitting laughter!
Bar Wars
Bar Wars is an event that’s guaranteed to raise everyone's "spirits". This competition combines cocktail mixing, bar flare and creativity into a rip roaring good time. Teams vie for the title of Bar War Champions while learning highly valuable skills that will make them in demand for any future parties or events. Once the champions have been crowned, participants can peruse the premium spirits and share in the exotic creations of the other groups.
Ice Sculpting Challenge
This activity is the ultimate "ice breaker"! Small teams will work together to carve, saw and chisel their way through blocks of ice to form some of the most creative, dynamic and innovative ice sculptures possible. This activity can be brought to any venue and is great any time of year. Our master sculptor will guide the group through this creative process and provide them with the resources needed to create a masterpiece. If you wanted your team to think outside the “block”, this is the event for you.
Quest For The Ancient NYC Treasure Chest
There’s nothing like a good old fashioned “quest” to keep things interesting. Our quest, like the quests of old, is not for the timid of mind. Teams must work their way through secret codes, ciphers and historic maps to find the location of the ancient treasure chest, hidden somewhere in the labyrinths and canyons of the city. It is a challenge like none you have ever experienced before. Treasure awaits those lucky few who solve the mystery and complete the quest.
Making Something Out of Nothing
In this extraordinary and unique program your team will find themselves immersed in a bustling urban location. The challenge: to generate as much revenue as possible in a limited amount of time through lucrative ventures. Propelling the group into this profitable program, teams will compete in an exciting initiative. Based on the results of the challenge, teams will get to select their first venture kit, each equipped with a limited amount of start-up money and unique items. Now the discussions ensue as the decisions begin, do they choose the musical instruments or the costumes, the carnival games or the cameras?
The Ice Cream Ball
I scream, your scream, your entire team will scream for ice cream! In this super sweet team building event, teams will be challenged to create a delectable and delicious masterpiece, an ice cream sundae! Through interactive and energetic initiatives, each team will earn ingredients to add flavor to their tasty treats. Now it’s the condiments the groups must earn, while their ice cream continues to churn. The grand finale is the sweetest part of this challenge as the teams present their mouth watering masterpieces to the judging panel and share each others tasty treats.
