Build a functioning machine that can accomplish a simple task such as ringing a bell, switching a light on, or creating a melody using strictly household items including string, tape, marbles, paperclips, and dominoes. Depending on your time and budget, more advanced and ambitious chain reactions can be made, the possibilities are nearly endless!
- Use team work to brainstorm and implement a plan to create a chain reaction
- Improve critical and creative thinking as well as communication among the team
- Be creative, innovative within the group
- Think outside the box
- Involve everyone in the process of solving each challenge
- Practice and perfect a chain reaction
- Fun, enjoyable and interactive team building
- Get to know your team colleagues
Participants will be led through a short series of ice breakers, put into teams, and then given a kit with which to invent their machines. Each kit is identical in quantity and makeup. Teams will be given a set amount of time (usually around 100 minutes for half day program) and must manage their time, manpower and resources to create the longest running machine they can in order to win.
Participants will be presented with a task for their reaction to complete. Teams will then select from a range of everyday household items which they will need to make their chain reaction.
With their objects and plan ready, teams spend start the next phase of the activity; implementing and perfecting their chain reaction.
The final phase of this creative and innovative team building activity is demonstration time. Teams will explain their chain reaction and demonstrate it to the other teams and a panel of Making Teams staff and company judges with a stopwatch for comparative length of runtime.
The location for the event is usually at the client’s hotel or own office space.
The winning team is the team that creates the most imaginative chain reaction, as judged by a joint panel of Making Teams staff and company judges.
There are no safety concerns.
The delegates are assigned teams, the activity is explained, and a series of example videos are shown to demonstrate and provide ideas. Once the teams have finished, they will demonstrate their chain reaction and a panel of judges will decide the winning team.
The ideal length for this activity is a minimum of two hours of brainstorming, designing, and testing followed by a final demonstration to a panel of judges. This program can be adapted to a half day, full day or multi-day team building activity depending on your budget and expressed level of ambition you’d like to see in the chain reactions.
09.00 am – Event brief by lead facilitator
09.15 am – Ice breaking activities
10.15 am – Distribution of chain reaction kits and explanation of rules
10.30 am – Teams design and build their chain reaction machines
11.00 am – Break
11.15 am – Teams finish their chain reactions
12.00 pm – Teams demonstrate their chain reactions
12.30 pm – Event de-brief, awarding ceremony and group photo
01.00 pm – End of the program
Max People
Hours
Challenges
People per Team
Below are three options for Chain Reaction with rates all tailored to best match your budget and requirements. The Bronze option is a fixed program with few inclusions but the Silver and Gold packages include extra benefits and allow selection of some or all challenges. On the pricing page we offer further optional extras. The full day activity will have up to double the number of challenges.
All options include
One Western lead event instructor
Ice-breaking activities
BRONZE
One Chain Reaction kit per team of 10
One facilitator per 40 pax
SILVER
One Chain Reaction kit per team of 10
Better premium materials in each kit
One facilitator per 20 pax
Bronze inclusions+
+Prizes for winning team (local handicraft or medals)
+Free photos taken by facilitator
+Pre-event meeting
GOLD
One Chain Reaction kit per team of 10
Best premium materials
One facilitator per 20 pax
Silver inclusions+
+Colored headbands to use
