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Junkyard Challenge - Constructive Team Building.

For the ultimate test in innovation and creativity why not undertake the Junkyard Challenge? Working in teams, it's a race against time to salvage what you need from our junk pile and then design and build a mystery machine.

Teams will be building anything from a large working crane to a medieval, spring loaded catapult. Junkyard Challenge will test your team's planning, communication and imagination to the limit!

Objectives

Junkyard challenge creates an environment in which teams must run a construction project from cradle to grave. Planning, Resource Management, Communication, Delegation and Implementation are all put under the microscope.

The Activity

The teams are given finite resources at the beginning of the activity. Each team will need to plan its purchases from our “hardware store” carefully in order to complete their project.

If the teams run out of materials or funds during the construction phase they may then take part in a series of fun challenges - which could earn them the cash they need in order to continue building. Fun challenges include Shooting, Games of Chance, Brain Teasers and much more.

Once the designated construction phase is over, the teams’ machines will compete against each other in a hilarious final competition.

Key Learnings 

• Improve team effectiveness through utilizing skill sets
• Identifying individual strengths and weaknesses
• Learn how to effectively develop creativity
• Understand the importance of time management 
• Discover how optimal allocation of resources impacts results

Location

The Junkyard Challenge is highly mobile and can be run in any suitable space throughout the UK and Europe. We can recommend places and locations but if you have already found your venue we would be delighted to speak with them to check that the space is appropriate.