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तेअम्बुइल्दिन्ग exercise
Defend the Egg (also known as the Great Egg Drop) is a teambuilding activity that involves collaboration, problem solving, and creative teamwork. Groups build a structure out of ordinary materials and try to protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped from a high elevation.
This exercise in teambuilding can be messy, so choose an appropriate setting where making a mess is acceptable. The recommended group size is: teams of four or five people. Several materials are needed: raw eggs, several plastic straws, masking tape, newspaper, and other materials of your choice. This activity is for people ages 14 and up.
Setup for Defend the Egg
This game works well with teams that are not too large. A good team size is four or five people. Pass out one egg and a limited supply of materials (e.g. four straws, a three foot strip of tape, one section of a newspaper, etc.) This activity is more challenging with less materials provided, so decide how challenging you wish to make it.
Gameplay for Defend the Egg
Explain the rules: the mission is to protect the egg from cracking using teamwork, creativity, and a good design. You will drop each structure at least fifteen feet, and so the goal is for each structure to be able to withstand such a fall. Each team will only be given limited resources, and so they must be wise with what they have. They may not use any other resources other than what is given to them. Optionally, you can have other critera for judging including:
* most creative design
* most stylish/visually appealing
* (any other awards you wish)
Decide on an appropriate amount of time (e.g. 20-25 minutes) and then instruct them to begin! Tell them to place their egg inside their structure.
Be sure to supervise each team as they build their structure.
When time is up, collect all the structures. Now is dramatic finale in which the structures are dropped (or thrown!) from at least 15 feet in elevation and then carefully inspected to see if the eggs survived. The winners are the groups that successfully protected the egg. If you chose to have other awards, announce those winners also.
This activity is useful to illustrate the importance of teamwork. Ask everyone to reflect on how their group accomplished the task, what worked, what was challenging, etc.
Variation
A much more challenging variation of this activity is to provide no materials (other than the egg) and ask the participants to find materials from outdoors.
http://www.icebreakers.ws/medium-group/defend-the-egg.html
This exercise in teambuilding can be messy, so choose an appropriate setting where making a mess is acceptable. The recommended group size is: teams of four or five people. Several materials are needed: raw eggs, several plastic straws, masking tape, newspaper, and other materials of your choice. This activity is for people ages 14 and up.
Setup for Defend the Egg
This game works well with teams that are not too large. A good team size is four or five people. Pass out one egg and a limited supply of materials (e.g. four straws, a three foot strip of tape, one section of a newspaper, etc.) This activity is more challenging with less materials provided, so decide how challenging you wish to make it.
Gameplay for Defend the Egg
Explain the rules: the mission is to protect the egg from cracking using teamwork, creativity, and a good design. You will drop each structure at least fifteen feet, and so the goal is for each structure to be able to withstand such a fall. Each team will only be given limited resources, and so they must be wise with what they have. They may not use any other resources other than what is given to them. Optionally, you can have other critera for judging including:
* most creative design
* most stylish/visually appealing
* (any other awards you wish)
Decide on an appropriate amount of time (e.g. 20-25 minutes) and then instruct them to begin! Tell them to place their egg inside their structure.
Be sure to supervise each team as they build their structure.
When time is up, collect all the structures. Now is dramatic finale in which the structures are dropped (or thrown!) from at least 15 feet in elevation and then carefully inspected to see if the eggs survived. The winners are the groups that successfully protected the egg. If you chose to have other awards, announce those winners also.
This activity is useful to illustrate the importance of teamwork. Ask everyone to reflect on how their group accomplished the task, what worked, what was challenging, etc.
Variation
A much more challenging variation of this activity is to provide no materials (other than the egg) and ask the participants to find materials from outdoors.
http://www.icebreakers.ws/medium-group/defend-the-egg.html
Saturday, December 13, 2008
च्रिस्त्मस पुज्ज्ले card
Jennifer Khan sent me a Christmas card in the form of a puzzle. Found it so cute. Here 's the link if anyone is interested.
To view the card of the month try this
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
तेर्रोरिस्ट्स इन Mumbai
It's been a stressful night. There have been a whole series of bomb blasts. And this time they targetted two 5 star hotels, the Taj Mahal hotel just opp. the Gateway of India and the Trident, formerly the Oberois. Since our office is close to the Taj we could actually hear some of the blasts. Over 100 people have died. Some of the dead include staff of the two hotels and police personnel, including the Anti-Terrorist Squad chief, Hemant Karkera. Another famous 'encounter' specialist, Vijay Salaskar also died. It's 9am now in India and there are still hostages in the hotels.
The terrorists are supposed to have come in by boats (rubberised dinghy boats). There have been blasts in other parts of the city too but this time there have been more in South Mumbai. There has never been anything like this, on such a large scale, in Mumbai. These terrorists are foreigners I think, and not Indians. Some of the terrorists also holed up in a building, Nariman House, in Colaba.
My brother-in-law Vinod Shekhar, who is a Municipal Corporator and mother-in-law, MLA, Annie Shekhar went on rounds last night after some of the blasts. We didn't want him to go especially since it's been just two months since he had a major heart surgery but he said that since it's his constituency it was his responsibility to do so. He also went to the hospitals later. I don't think he slept for even 2 hours cos early in the morning, before 5 am he was called to the Chief Minister's house for a meeting. They are either there or at Mantralaya.
There are Rapid Action Force personnel, commandos and the military has been callled in but so far there's been no solution to the problem.
The terrorists are supposed to have come in by boats (rubberised dinghy boats). There have been blasts in other parts of the city too but this time there have been more in South Mumbai. There has never been anything like this, on such a large scale, in Mumbai. These terrorists are foreigners I think, and not Indians. Some of the terrorists also holed up in a building, Nariman House, in Colaba.
My brother-in-law Vinod Shekhar, who is a Municipal Corporator and mother-in-law, MLA, Annie Shekhar went on rounds last night after some of the blasts. We didn't want him to go especially since it's been just two months since he had a major heart surgery but he said that since it's his constituency it was his responsibility to do so. He also went to the hospitals later. I don't think he slept for even 2 hours cos early in the morning, before 5 am he was called to the Chief Minister's house for a meeting. They are either there or at Mantralaya.
There are Rapid Action Force personnel, commandos and the military has been callled in but so far there's been no solution to the problem.
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