Furious Birds
An hilarious game combining engineering, teamwork and ruthless competition into an awesome catapult team building.
Overview
This interactive corporate team building activity gets attendees using technology to develop relationships by interacting with as many people as possible. They will meet people as they answer trivia challenges, take photos with other attendees, record group videos, and other fun projects.
You can use our off-the-shelf version, or we can design custom content so that you can collect feedback, present company survey questions, and challenge teams with tasks that reinforce content you will be delivering.
Goals
- Enhance teamwork skills such as creativity and collaboration.
- Develop problem solving and time management skills.
- Build morale and camaraderie through hilarious competition
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Agenda & Activities
Welcome & Warm-Ups (5-10 minutes) Atlanta Challenge staff welcome participants and lead some fun warm-ups to get the group fully engaged in the teamwork activities.
Team Up! (5 minutes) Our last warm-up game will also randomly create small teams. Once in their teams, participants take a moment to get to know each other better.
Event Intro (5 minutes) The rules for the event are explained, and materials are distributed to the teams.
Design Phase (5-10 minutes) The teams examine their building materials and develop various ideas for what to build and how to build it. This is done as a separate phase so that conversations can take place later on about how the group shares, and hears, different ideas.
Building Phase (30-60 minutes) Teams build their catapults with one eye on creativity and the other on quality. Their catapult will earn points for creativity, quality, and how well it throws. This creates interesting insights into how the team makes decisions and executes their plans.
PR & Test Range (10 minutes) Each team brings their catapult to the launching area to brag about their engineering and creative superiority. They will then have an opportunity to do a test round and make improvements before the main event.
The Duel (10 minutes) Each team is paired up with another team, and attempts to fire as many birds as they can at the other team’s wall to knock down their pigs, while at the same time keep their own wall rebuilt while under fire. Final points are awarded based on the quality of their catapult, how much wall their team has standing, and how many pigs have survived.
Team Presentations Optional (10-15 min) The teams come together after the teamwork activities to share insights about what it takes to be creative AND effective, especially while under time pressure and facing stiff competition.
Details
Length
1½ or 3 hours
Activity
Moderate
Location
Indoors or outdoors in a large open space.
Group Size
10-200 people.
Includes
Complete facilitation, all materials, team bandanas, event photos and videos.
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