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I have to share this with the DIS community. We've been planning this event for 2 years, and managed to pull it off on December 2nd!
Backstory: My friends and I work with with High School students (15-18 yr olds) in Florida and have put on a Road Rally style race twice a year (similar to the Amazing Race) for them since 2010. Just this last weekend, we turned in their cars (normally driven by parents) in exchange for Disney Transportation and took the whole game on the road! We fundraised the heck out of this team building event, and managed to fund 12 teams of 4 players each for a day at Walt Disney World.
We arrived on a charter bus at 830am and began the "race" the minute they stepped on to the sidewalk. The teams had to decode clues and decipher hints to progress in the game. There were scavenger items for extra points available to the teams (i.e. A photo from the air in the balloon at Characters in Flight @ DTD) and bonus points for completing challenges (i.e. climbing Swiss Family Robinson Tree House 3 times in 10 minutes)
The students were on their best behavior all day and took an awesome oppertunity and made it into a memorable weekend! The "game staff" had a blast, the students couldn't get enough of it and 12 hours later, we ended the game and let the kids "play" for 4 bouns hours, free from the competitive nature of the game.
We had 48, high school aged kids at disney for 16 hours with no issue (minus the occasional dying cell phone) and while it was a long day....i'd do it again in a heartbeat. Crowds were big, but they were filming the Christmas Day parade for most of the day, and it made movement.....challenging, but not impossible.
Thanks for letting me share!
Backstory: My friends and I work with with High School students (15-18 yr olds) in Florida and have put on a Road Rally style race twice a year (similar to the Amazing Race) for them since 2010. Just this last weekend, we turned in their cars (normally driven by parents) in exchange for Disney Transportation and took the whole game on the road! We fundraised the heck out of this team building event, and managed to fund 12 teams of 4 players each for a day at Walt Disney World.
We arrived on a charter bus at 830am and began the "race" the minute they stepped on to the sidewalk. The teams had to decode clues and decipher hints to progress in the game. There were scavenger items for extra points available to the teams (i.e. A photo from the air in the balloon at Characters in Flight @ DTD) and bonus points for completing challenges (i.e. climbing Swiss Family Robinson Tree House 3 times in 10 minutes)
The students were on their best behavior all day and took an awesome oppertunity and made it into a memorable weekend! The "game staff" had a blast, the students couldn't get enough of it and 12 hours later, we ended the game and let the kids "play" for 4 bouns hours, free from the competitive nature of the game.
We had 48, high school aged kids at disney for 16 hours with no issue (minus the occasional dying cell phone) and while it was a long day....i'd do it again in a heartbeat. Crowds were big, but they were filming the Christmas Day parade for most of the day, and it made movement.....challenging, but not impossible.
Thanks for letting me share!