Chain Reaction
In this lively team building activity, teams collaborate to create fun tabletop contraptions inspired by the one and only Rube Goldberg. The idea is to design insanely complicated machines as a way to accomplish simple tasks.
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In-Person
Team Size
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10-1000
Time Needed
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2-4 hours
Outcomes
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Fun & Engaging Interaction
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Collaboration & Accomplishing Common Goal
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Friendly Competition
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Creativity & Resourcefulness
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Encourage group synergy with a chain reaction game
This activity offers a funny, engaging challenge designed to unleash creativity and foster healthy teamwork. The concept of making things far more complicated than they need to be is actually a powerful way to make the point that simple is usually better.
A bit of history on the inspiration behind Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor. He somehow managed to combine all his talents into one genius-level superpower. Goldberg would dream up and illustrate a series of bizarrely complex mechanisms meant to accomplish very simple tasks.
Once divided into smaller teams, your group will move into friendly competition mode as they design and assemble their own “simple” machines. Each team designs builds and tests a number of simple machines. But ultimately, each of their individual inventions must also work together as part of a greater whole. Since the mission is challenging, teams need to think strategically as they develop a common vision to bring their crazy inventions to life. Collaboration has never been so fun.
Space requirement
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This works best as an indoor activity. You’ll want a large private function space with a long table for each team, plus four big rectangular tables at the front of the room. Chairs are optional. If your group is larger than 50, we’ll also need a microphone and speaker setup.
Tailoring
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TeamBonding is all about customization. Would you like specific elements of company branding, culture and/or mission statement woven into your program? Just let us know what you have in mind.
*For another variation on this popular event, check out Domino Effect.
What’s included?
- Tailored program design
- Dedicated event manager
- Professional facilitator & event staff
- All event materials
- On-site set-up & breakdown
- Donation coordination (for charity events)
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- No taxes or travel fees (for domestic events)
- $5M insurance coverage
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Chain Reaction team building FAQ
This event works best in a large indoor space with plenty of tables. That way, your group has room to spread out and bring their team chain ideas to life.
The chain reaction workshop sparks creativity, innovation, and teamwork. As your group designs and connects pieces together, they’ll practice problem-solving and collaboration while having fun with a hands-on challenge.
Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist, engineer, and inventor best known for his humorous drawings of overly complicated machines that performed simple tasks. His illustrations often showed a chain of whimsical reactions (like a ball rolling down a ramp to tip over a bucket) that ended in something as simple as flipping a switch. Today, his name is synonymous with creative problem-solving and playful innovation, which is exactly what your team will experience in this chain reaction team building event.
A Rube Goldberg activity is all about creating a whimsical machine where each step triggers the next. Using a Rube Goldberg machine kit, your team builds a sequence of events that eventually leads to a final outcome, like ringing a bell or popping a balloon.
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