Friday, January 28, 2011

Tennis Ball Team Building Game

Challenge: to pass the tennis ball as fast as we could to each teammate.

Constraints: time, the more people in your group, the worse your time will be, having little time to colaberate.

Our plan: we had the ball falling downward, so we passed it going down by catching the ball and then dropping it into the next person's hands.

Our plan worked out well. We finished fast.

I don't know if I would have changed our plan. Maybe putting all our hands in a small circle and passing it quickly to the next person, or even rolling it on each person's hand until we all touch it.

When each teammante couldn't just touch the tennis ball (we actually had to pass it), that new constraint kind of hurt us.

Lots of people were colaberating and sharing their ideas. Most of us agreed to keep the ball as close to all of us as possible and pass it around quickly. Others suggested to form our hands/arms into a ramp-like form and pass it while the ball fell down. All of these ideas helped formed our team plan.

In order for anonther game to be fun, I would suggest that we won't have to pass the ball; we could each touch it and that would count as a pass instead. And each team needs the same # of teammates. It would also help if we had more time to colaberate and construct ideas.

We won the first try but lost the second.

2 comments:

  1. Good job breaking out your write up into "Challenge", "Constraints", etc.
    This makes your post more readable. You've chosen a nice theme as well that also supports readability. Thanks.

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