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THE GRACIOUS GIVING CHALLENGE!

On the 4th of May 2018, FOCUS Adventure conducted our very first The Gracious Giving Challenge! at our FOCUS Adventure Learning Facility in Sentosa. This is one of our new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme and the selected beneficiaries were FaithActs and Beyond Social Services.

Customised to the client’s requirements, there were two parts to the programme. It started with the teams in a high energy and competitive mindset. Participants were split into teams and engaged in friendly competition between groups in The Incredible Sentosa Race!, and ended off with the purchasing of groceries at Giant supermarket in Vivocity. Teams had to leverage on their individual member’s strengths to overcome the different challenges faced.

Midway through the programme, it was revealed to the participants that this was not only a teambuilding programme, but there was also an element of giving back to society and helping the less fortunate.

Backed by this greater purpose, participants started working together as a collective unit rather than as individual teams, exhibiting unity and sincerity as an organisation. After ensuring that majority of the items on the grocery list was purchased, participants moved on to the second portion of the programme, The Gracious Giving Challenge! With the grocery items bought earlier in the day, the participants packaged them into hampers for the respective organizations, not forgetting to add a touch of their creative flair into the design and aesthetics of the hampers.

Despite a full day of physically demanding and mentally draining activities, the participants expressed gratitude and fulfilment towards being able to create a positive impact in someone else’s

Each team will be tasked to build a robot together. After which they will be going through the learning session on manual controls and how to control them. This will allow their robots to be unique as compared to the rest. Their final objective will be to pit the robot that they built against man-made obstacles such as to carry items and moving from point A to point B or to going through a maze or to dance! The possibilities is endless! They will then customise a message for the children using the robots built and have it delivered to the beneficiaries.

 

Learning Objectives

 

  • To understand that it is not always the results that matter but also the process
  • Engage participant’s imagination and problem solving skills
  • Increase confidence and commitment levels
    Allows greater meaning to giving and helping those in need
  • To tap on each other’s strengths and weaknesses

If you are looking for an exciting challenge with a meaningful element, The Supermarket Race Challenge! will be the program for you! Teams will get to earn cash by attempting a series of challenges along the race, in a bid to earn enough money to purchase essential items for the selected beneficiary. Given a limited time and facing multiple challenges, teams will have to plan carefully and make strategic decisions to optimize their resources, and purchase as many items as possible for a good cause.