Strategic Games is a Dynamic team-building program that is filled with fast-paced problem-solving challenges that reinforce the core values of teams and strategic goals of your organization. Participants are intentionally mixed and remixed across activities, encouraging cross-department collaboration and exposes team members to new perspectives, strengths, and working styles. With every completed challenge, the bar is raised…
Game On corporate Olympics is a creative mix of team competition, problem-solving challenges and fun. It can also be run inside or outdoors.
“”Think Inside The Box?” That’s what Venture Up’s new, portable, conference room escape game is all about. Perfect for groups of 25 to 500. If you liked Escape Rooms, you’ll love “Escape The Case“.
Bike Building for Kids in Need is our most popular charity team building event. Teams warm up with quick Energizers, then assemble, decorate, and safety test brand-new bikes for underserved children ages 5 to 10. Each group receives a child’s name and creates a personalized bike and card, delivering a fast, meaningful, and highly rewarding team experience.
Venture Up’s Amazing Race is a fast-paced, city-based team building adventure where teams solve clues, complete challenges, and navigate local landmarks. Designed for all abilities, correctness matters more than speed! Each race features location-specific tasks, and bonus challenges. There’s no better way to experience a city than in this memorable, high-energy group event!
Technicolor Transport is a high-energy engineering challenge that pushes teams to design and build a working fluid-routing machine. Using colored fluids, pumps, tubing, valves and connectors, each group must create a system capable of directing any of four colors to twelve target points—then operate it using valves only, with no post-build adjustments. This 2- to 4-hour event blends creativity, problem-solving, coaching and precise communication, and can align with models like Lean Principles.
Venture Up’s Project 15 THE MAZE is designed for intact teams, virtual teams, or large corporate events in a general session. It’s a Strategic Game, based in sharing information and training around best practices, mitigating problems, achieving a unified goal across multiple areas.
Venture Up can integrate well-known corporate training frameworks such as TQM, StrengthsFinder, and Lean principles.
If your meeting is built around specific models or principles like the ones below, let us know before the event so we can align our activities and debriefs with your team’s goals.
Strategic Games is a Dynamic team-building program that is filled with fast-paced problem-solving challenges that reinforce the core values of teams and strategic goals of your organization. Participants are intentionally mixed and remixed across activities, encouraging cross-department collaboration and exposes team members to new perspectives, strengths, and working styles. With…
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Bike Building for Kids in Need is our most popular charity team building event. Teams warm up with quick Energizers, then assemble, decorate, and safety test brand-new bikes for underserved children ages 5 to 10. Each group receives a child’s name and creates a personalized bike and card, delivering a…
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Venture Up’s Amazing Race is a fast-paced, city-based team building adventure where teams solve clues, complete challenges, and navigate local landmarks. Designed for all abilities, correctness matters more than speed! Each race features location-specific tasks, and bonus challenges. There’s no better way to experience a city than in this memorable,…
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Rise to the challenge and fun with Venture Up’s Team Survivor and Minutes-to-Win-It event. Inspired by the popular TV shows, this combo program is competitive and geared for all abilities and professional levels. Teams stay intact and compete head-to-head through a course of mental challenges. No need for athletes on this event since…
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Cantinaville is a fun and festive food and team building event that challenges teams to work together to create the best salsa north of the Mexico. Fun and food are what it’s all about as each team creates a theme and plate arrangement to launch their food creations. All teams…
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""Think Inside The Box?" That's what Venture Up's new, portable, conference room escape game is all about. Perfect for groups of 25 to 500. If you liked Escape Rooms, you'll love "Escape The Case". "Escape The Case" is a reverse escape game. It's not about escaping a room, but breaking…
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Everyone is an artist in our Art Rageous Paint Fest team building event. A favorite for corporate training conferences, teams enjoy a stress-free break from intense meetings and the world of work. Paint Fest offers a chance for teams to relax together, free of worry, with no pressure or need for a beer. It's play…
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Venture Up's team building High Ropes Course is fun, exhilarating and geared for groups diverse in every possible way. VIDEO: Ropes Course - U-Haul's 70th Anniversary The Ropes Course requires no special skills or physical conditioning. Team members ease into the experience with a series of interactive games requiring strategic thinking, trust, effective communication,…
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Thousands of children are born each year with Symbrachydactyly, a congenital condition in which fingers are not developed, or may be webbed or conjoined. The demand for prosthetics is overwhelming. Working with biomedical engineers, Venture Up is funding 3D printing technology for the production of low-cost prosthetic hands to enable people with no…
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CORN HOLE: Also known as "Baggo," "Bean Bag Tossing" and "Hill Billy Horse Shoes," Corn Hole has resurged in popularity across the coast, from Florida to San Francisco. Armed with bean bags, teams go head-to-head scoring one (1) point for each bag on the platform, and three (3) points putting the bag in the “hole." Games…
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Game On corporate Olympics is a creative mix of team competition, problem-solving challenges and fun. It can also be run inside or outdoors. The spirit of the Olympiad comes to life as the torch lighter -- usually a corporate VIP -- arrives in Roman costume prancing to the music of the…
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No manuals, no technical support and no two ways to create the life-size motorless car that will send your team "volunteer" across the finish line in winning style. Venture Up's Mega Car 500 is a fun and colorful event that requires teams to design and produce human–propelled race vehicles from scratch. …
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Venture Up’s Mini Car 500 team building event challenges your teams to turn a 4-ounce block of wood into a lean, mean, speed-racing machine. Teams must design, build and decorate miniature cars, powered only by gravity, to race down the 40-foot rack to the finish line. Each team…
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Take a fun direction with your team and discover our GeoCaching & Orienteering corporate event. Orienteering Orienteering is the old but not forgotten way to survey the land on an adventure quest. Commonly referred to as a Map & Compass journey, Orienteering became a popular pleasure sport as…
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Rise up to the challenge with our Team Survivor and Minute-to-Win- combo program, inspired by the popular TV shows. This interactive event relies on ingenuity, quick thinking, and skillful collaboration, and is suitable for teams diverse in every possible way. The program is fast-paced, fun and competitive. Teams stay…
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Technicolor Transport is a high-energy engineering challenge that pushes teams to design and build a working fluid-routing machine. Using colored fluids, pumps, tubing, valves and connectors, each group must create a system capable of directing any of four colors to twelve target points—then operate it using valves only, with no…
View Event
No direction. No instructors … and no two ways to build the life-size motor-free boat that will send your team across the finish line in winning style. Quick collective thinking, creativity and problem-solving are critical to making an efficient water-worthy vessel in record time. Venture Up provides all the…
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Since 1983, Venture Up and its founders - who have traveled to more than 50 countries on five continents - have supported international and local charity efforts. Your team can become part of Venture Up's efforts to serve your local community, or people beyond our borders. Bike Builders /…
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Lights. Camera. Action. LIP SYNC BATTLE / DRAMATICA is your ticket to a fun, high energy, interactive team building event. Based on the popular Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show series, Lip Synch Battle is ideal for large groups and is as much fun for the audience as it is for the corporate…
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CORN HOLE: Also known as "Baggo," "Bean Bag Tossing" and "Hill Billy Horse Shoes," Corn Hole has resurged in popularity across the coast, from Florida to San Francisco. Armed with bean bags, teams go head-to-head scoring one (1) point for each bag on the platform, and three (3) points putting the bag in the “hole." Games…
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Rappelling and Rock Climbing team building events offer high-angle fun and and are suitable for people of all shapes and sizes. Imagine hanging from a rope on a rocky cliff 70 feet above the ground. Dangling like a spider, you slowly rappel, lowering yourself down to the ground. Basic rock climbing and…
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Biz Quiz, Venture Up's custom Game Show, is fast and fun and an easy way to motivate teams and fuel friendly competition. Corporated trainers often hire Venture Up to re-work the questions to reinforce training objectives at meetings, or elements in the conference theme. Similar in format to the famous Jeopardy show, our host…
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Four-Way Volleyball puts a new twist on the classic beach game. Played indoors or outdoors, a custom net system allows four teams to play at once, competing against each other in a fast paced game where strategy and creativity energize the team experience. Playing with a Nerf-style, easy-on-the-hands volleyball,…
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Turn up the power and get ready for "Take Off" with Venture Up's Paper Drone Air Plane building program. Teams are challenged to build a variety of hi-performing paper airplanes and then modify them into "hi-tech" powered Paper Drones. This Venture Up program was originally developed for the Apache helicopter pilots of…
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The Clueless Murder Mystery provides fun, interactive entertainment for corporate meetings and events. Ideal for after-dinner functions, happy hours or corporate celebrations, the event offers a chance for everyone to have fun in ways unrelated to work, by joining in a classic whodunit . Venture Up offers a wide…
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Paintball games are fast and fun for almost everyone. Venture Up supplies all the equipment including semi-automatic paintball guns, face goggles, head balaclavas, flak jackets and optional pads. In addition to playing at private locations, our portable bunkers and barriers allow us to set up at ranches, golf courses and wilderness areas. Some…
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CORN HOLE: Also known as "Baggo," "Bean Bag Tossing" and "Hill Billy Horse Shoes," Corn Hole has resurged in popularity across the coast, from Florida to San Francisco. Armed with bean bags, teams go head-to-head scoring one (1) point for each bag on the platform, and three (3) points putting the bag in the “hole." Games…
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“Individuals fail. Only teams survive.” ~ U.S. Navy Seals motto Inspired by the U.S. Navy Seals motto, the Boot Camp program is yet another Venture Up original. Held indoors or outdoors, team members face a range of problem-solving activities in order to successfully complete a course of physical and mental…
View Event
Cyberthon is a virtual team-building experience that sends your remote teams on a global amazing race through cyberspace. Get social and have fun by solving clues, grappling with mind-bending puzzles, and tackling strategic challenges. This event connects your team members from remote locations with fun problem-solving activities and strategic energizers.…
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Movie Theme Events are inspired by -- you guessed it -- legendary Hollywood films. Our most popular events? Traders of the Lost Ark Star Wars Mission is Possible The Ark in the Traders program, for example, can represent the ultimate goal of the company meeting. Teams may set…
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Venture Up is rooted in a tradition of world travel and adventure. What began as an adventure company, serendipitously evolved into the top provider of team building events today. We continue to offer high level adventures to select professionals, and make no secret of the fact that you must be healthy…
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Yes we do. - - Venture Up motto Venture Up gets around, in more ways than one. During our 30-year history, we've had the chance to work with a wide range of clients, some with goals beyond team building. Venture Up can work with your ideas to create an engaging program to motivate your…
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Throughout the ages, music and rhythmic sounds have been a binding agent of all people. JamFEST strikes a chord with everyone. A popular conference energizer, this 45 to 90-minute event gets your teams moving, shaking and jamming in harmony. No previous experience or musical ability is needed. Boom Sticks, Rubber Gloves,…
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1. Why Should We Choose Venture Up? Listen to our clients. With a long track record of exceeding expectations and building strong team relationships, we’ve worked with over 250,000 executives since 1983. Want a reference? We’re happy to connect you with clients who can share their experiences and help guide…
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Blaster Master is a new, fun, all-inclusive activity designed to keep the energy flowing during our Field Games competitive events. A favorite add-on to the 4-Way Volleyball program, Blaster Master reinforces the idea that the big game isn't over. Once a Volleyball team winner is declared, the celebration (or gloating) does not last long. Venture Up…
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Hunger Games take on a new meaning with Venture Up and its corporate partners, providing food and resources to community families in need. The Can Creations program blends altruism with artistry as teams create sculptures with their donation. Using thousands of cans of food, teams form multi-dimensional works of art…
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Emergency Response Team Building can be really FUN for groups, because it shows how results matter, increases confidence and can help save lives in real life. Team ready? You better be. Emergencies can’t wait. A man lies unconscious washed up on the beach. A woman on a plane suddenly…
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Venture Up's Project 15 THE MAZE is designed for intact teams, virtual teams, or large corporate events in a general session. It's a Strategic Game, based in sharing information and training around best practices, mitigating problems, achieving a unified goal across multiple areas. This multi-phase challenge runs 2.5 -…
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CANADA / UNITED KINGDOM / EUROPE / ASIA / MIDDLE EAST / MEXICO / CARIBBEAN / RUSSIA / SOUTH AMERICA For three decades, Venture Up has worked with government and corporate clients in more than 20 countries on five continents. Bringing American Team Building overseas serves to bridge cultural…
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Business is really about people... The Venture Up experience is successful with all types of work groups and industsries: Work Groups: Intact teams, extended teams, virtual teams, union and non-union teams. Industries: Federal and State government, information technology, consumer products, financial services, energy and natural resources, biotech and healthcare.…
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Game On corporate Olympics is a creative mix of team competition, problem-solving challenges and fun. It can also be run inside or outdoors. The spirit of the Olympiad comes to life as the torch lighter -- usually a corporate VIP -- arrives in Roman costume prancing to the music of the…
View Event
Venture Up’s Amazing Race is a fast-paced, city-based team building adventure where teams solve clues, complete challenges, and navigate local landmarks. Designed for all abilities, correctness matters more than speed! Each race features location-specific tasks, and bonus challenges. There’s no better way to experience a city than in this memorable,…
View Event
Rise to the challenge and fun with Venture Up’s Team Survivor and Minutes-to-Win-It event. Inspired by the popular TV shows, this combo program is competitive and geared for all abilities and professional levels. Teams stay intact and compete head-to-head through a course of mental challenges. No need for athletes on this event since…
View Event
Cantinaville is a fun and festive food and team building event that challenges teams to work together to create the best salsa north of the Mexico. Fun and food are what it’s all about as each team creates a theme and plate arrangement to launch their food creations. All teams…
View Event
CORN HOLE: Also known as "Baggo," "Bean Bag Tossing" and "Hill Billy Horse Shoes," Corn Hole has resurged in popularity across the coast, from Florida to San Francisco. Armed with bean bags, teams go head-to-head scoring one (1) point for each bag on the platform, and three (3) points putting the bag in the “hole." Games…
View Event
No manuals, no technical support and no two ways to create the life-size motorless car that will send your team "volunteer" across the finish line in winning style. Venture Up's Mega Car 500 is a fun and colorful event that requires teams to design and produce human–propelled race vehicles from scratch. …
View Event
Venture Up’s Mini Car 500 team building event challenges your teams to turn a 4-ounce block of wood into a lean, mean, speed-racing machine. Teams must design, build and decorate miniature cars, powered only by gravity, to race down the 40-foot rack to the finish line. Each team…
View Event
Take a fun direction with your team and discover our GeoCaching & Orienteering corporate event. Orienteering Orienteering is the old but not forgotten way to survey the land on an adventure quest. Commonly referred to as a Map & Compass journey, Orienteering became a popular pleasure sport as…
View Event
Technicolor Transport is a high-energy engineering challenge that pushes teams to design and build a working fluid-routing machine. Using colored fluids, pumps, tubing, valves and connectors, each group must create a system capable of directing any of four colors to twelve target points—then operate it using valves only, with no…
View Event
No direction. No instructors … and no two ways to build the life-size motor-free boat that will send your team across the finish line in winning style. Quick collective thinking, creativity and problem-solving are critical to making an efficient water-worthy vessel in record time. Venture Up provides all the…
View Event
Lights. Camera. Action. LIP SYNC BATTLE / DRAMATICA is your ticket to a fun, high energy, interactive team building event. Based on the popular Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show series, Lip Synch Battle is ideal for large groups and is as much fun for the audience as it is for the corporate…
View Event
CORN HOLE: Also known as "Baggo," "Bean Bag Tossing" and "Hill Billy Horse Shoes," Corn Hole has resurged in popularity across the coast, from Florida to San Francisco. Armed with bean bags, teams go head-to-head scoring one (1) point for each bag on the platform, and three (3) points putting the bag in the “hole." Games…
View Event
Four-Way Volleyball puts a new twist on the classic beach game. Played indoors or outdoors, a custom net system allows four teams to play at once, competing against each other in a fast paced game where strategy and creativity energize the team experience. Playing with a Nerf-style, easy-on-the-hands volleyball,…
View Event
Biz Quiz, Venture Up's custom Game Show, is fast and fun and an easy way to motivate teams and fuel friendly competition. Corporated trainers often hire Venture Up to re-work the questions to reinforce training objectives at meetings, or elements in the conference theme. Similar in format to the famous Jeopardy show, our host…
View Event
Turn up the power and get ready for "Take Off" with Venture Up's Paper Drone Air Plane building program. Teams are challenged to build a variety of hi-performing paper airplanes and then modify them into "hi-tech" powered Paper Drones. This Venture Up program was originally developed for the Apache helicopter pilots of…
View Event
Paintball games are fast and fun for almost everyone. Venture Up supplies all the equipment including semi-automatic paintball guns, face goggles, head balaclavas, flak jackets and optional pads. In addition to playing at private locations, our portable bunkers and barriers allow us to set up at ranches, golf courses and wilderness areas. Some…
View Event
Cyberthon is a virtual team-building experience that sends your remote teams on a global amazing race through cyberspace. Get social and have fun by solving clues, grappling with mind-bending puzzles, and tackling strategic challenges. This event connects your team members from remote locations with fun problem-solving activities and strategic energizers.…
View Event
Movie Theme Events are inspired by -- you guessed it -- legendary Hollywood films. Our most popular events? Traders of the Lost Ark Star Wars Mission is Possible The Ark in the Traders program, for example, can represent the ultimate goal of the company meeting. Teams may set…
View Event
Blaster Master is a new, fun, all-inclusive activity designed to keep the energy flowing during our Field Games competitive events. A favorite add-on to the 4-Way Volleyball program, Blaster Master reinforces the idea that the big game isn't over. Once a Volleyball team winner is declared, the celebration (or gloating) does not last long. Venture Up…
View Event
Bike Building for Kids in Need is our most popular charity team building event. Teams warm up with quick Energizers, then assemble, decorate, and safety test brand-new bikes for underserved children ages 5 to 10. Each group receives a child’s name and creates a personalized bike and card, delivering a…
View Event
""Think Inside The Box?" That's what Venture Up's new, portable, conference room escape game is all about. Perfect for groups of 25 to 500. If you liked Escape Rooms, you'll love "Escape The Case". "Escape The Case" is a reverse escape game. It's not about escaping a room, but breaking…
View Event
Everyone is an artist in our Art Rageous Paint Fest team building event. A favorite for corporate training conferences, teams enjoy a stress-free break from intense meetings and the world of work. Paint Fest offers a chance for teams to relax together, free of worry, with no pressure or need for a beer. It's play…
View Event
Thousands of children are born each year with Symbrachydactyly, a congenital condition in which fingers are not developed, or may be webbed or conjoined. The demand for prosthetics is overwhelming. Working with biomedical engineers, Venture Up is funding 3D printing technology for the production of low-cost prosthetic hands to enable people with no…
View Event
Since 1983, Venture Up and its founders - who have traveled to more than 50 countries on five continents - have supported international and local charity efforts. Your team can become part of Venture Up's efforts to serve your local community, or people beyond our borders. Bike Builders /…
View Event
Turn up the power and get ready for "Take Off" with Venture Up's Paper Drone Air Plane building program. Teams are challenged to build a variety of hi-performing paper airplanes and then modify them into "hi-tech" powered Paper Drones. This Venture Up program was originally developed for the Apache helicopter pilots of…
View Event
Hunger Games take on a new meaning with Venture Up and its corporate partners, providing food and resources to community families in need. The Can Creations program blends altruism with artistry as teams create sculptures with their donation. Using thousands of cans of food, teams form multi-dimensional works of art…
View Event
Throughout the ages, music and rhythmic sounds have been a binding agent of all people. JamFEST strikes a chord with everyone. A popular conference energizer, this 45 to 90-minute event gets your teams moving, shaking and jamming in harmony. No previous experience or musical ability is needed. Boom Sticks, Rubber Gloves,…
View Event
Cyberthon is a virtual team-building experience that sends your remote teams on a global amazing race through cyberspace. Get social and have fun by solving clues, grappling with mind-bending puzzles, and tackling strategic challenges. This event connects your team members from remote locations with fun problem-solving activities and strategic energizers.…
View Event
“Individuals fail. Only teams survive.” ~ U.S. Navy Seals motto Inspired by the U.S. Navy Seals motto, the Boot Camp program is yet another Venture Up original. Held indoors or outdoors, team members face a range of problem-solving activities in order to successfully complete a course of physical and mental…
View Event
The Clueless Murder Mystery provides fun, interactive entertainment for corporate meetings and events. Ideal for after-dinner functions, happy hours or corporate celebrations, the event offers a chance for everyone to have fun in ways unrelated to work, by joining in a classic whodunit . Venture Up offers a wide…
View Event
Rappelling and Rock Climbing team building events offer high-angle fun and and are suitable for people of all shapes and sizes. Imagine hanging from a rope on a rocky cliff 70 feet above the ground. Dangling like a spider, you slowly rappel, lowering yourself down to the ground. Basic rock climbing and…
View Event
CORN HOLE: Also known as "Baggo," "Bean Bag Tossing" and "Hill Billy Horse Shoes," Corn Hole has resurged in popularity across the coast, from Florida to San Francisco. Armed with bean bags, teams go head-to-head scoring one (1) point for each bag on the platform, and three (3) points putting the bag in the “hole." Games…
View Event
Venture Up's team building High Ropes Course is fun, exhilarating and geared for groups diverse in every possible way. VIDEO: Ropes Course - U-Haul's 70th Anniversary The Ropes Course requires no special skills or physical conditioning. Team members ease into the experience with a series of interactive games requiring strategic thinking, trust, effective communication,…
View Event
""Think Inside The Box?" That's what Venture Up's new, portable, conference room escape game is all about. Perfect for groups of 25 to 500. If you liked Escape Rooms, you'll love "Escape The Case". "Escape The Case" is a reverse escape game. It's not about escaping a room, but breaking…
View Event
Strategic Games is a Dynamic team-building program that is filled with fast-paced problem-solving challenges that reinforce the core values of teams and strategic goals of your organization. Participants are intentionally mixed and remixed across activities, encouraging cross-department collaboration and exposes team members to new perspectives, strengths, and working styles. With…
View Event