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A fun, fast and furious activity that builds on team cooperation
as well as individual skills to achieve the common goal of
creating a mechanical trap within a tight time scale to catch
a rat.
Up to twelve mechanisms are constructed. When these are assembled
in the right order they create a domino effect, each triggering
the next until the last mechanism sets off the rat trap. Each
mechanism is constructed by a separate team, but the whole
group needs to work together to ensure success.
Working in small teams, participants first have to build
a crane to retrieve scrambled images of one or more mechanisms.
Negotiating with other teams they swap images until they have
a complete image of their mechanism. They then write an instruction
manual for this mechanism before moving to another workstation
and a new mechanism. Again, liaison and networking are essential
as teams use each others' manuals to assemble and decorate
their mechanism. Finally - with all teams working together
- mechanisms must be put in the correct sequence so that the
final mechanism triggers the trap to catch the rat.
While this activity will produce great benefit on its own,
we recommend a facilitator to achieve best results.
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