For the last few weeks students have completed three personality surveys - leadership, creativity and learning styles. Each provided the students with a greater understanding of themselves and their classmates. In addition, each week there was a team building activity: Cup Challenge, Blindfold Maze Challenge and Sneak a Peak. Students demonstrated they could cooperate and collaborate with their classmates, as well as use critical thinking to solve novel and challenging problems. In the Cup Challenge (first five images), students were tasked with building a tower of cups by working together! Team members could not touch the cups with their hands, or any other part of their bodies (even if a cup tipped over). Each student had to hold on to one of the strings that was attached to the rubber band tool also known as the Half Octopus. The group could only use this rubber band tool to pick up the cups and place them on top of each other (by pulling and releasing the strings on the rubber band to place around the cup). The Blindfold Maze was a trust building activity, as well as an auditory and spatial memory challenge. One person was blindfolded, the other gave verbal directions for the route walked in the area. After the time was up, the blindfolded partners used their memory to retrace the routes trying to end up as close to the starting point as possible (the closer they are to the start point the better). Then the partners reversed roles. In Sneak a Peak , the aim was for each group to try to build an exact copy of a pre-built sculpture. The catch was only one person in each group could look at the model at a time, and only for ten seconds. They then returned to their team and described what they saw.
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