Mexican Railway

This team building exercise is ideal as an indoor teambuilding game at a conference, it is a superb concept to highlight the key roles of team work, communication, the bigger picture and of course fun. It can be used for any size of conference.  It works well at any meeting of more than 10 people and even better at conferences with hundreds of delegates.   

More than one railway can be created, with teams competing. The group will need to plan their strategy, interact with each other, delegate roles, and complete the challenge against the clock.  This team building exercise achieves objectives in a short space of time and provides a hilarious activity for ALL group members.  

The objective of this team building exercise is to transfer 1 or more balls from one side of a dedicated area, to the other, in a railroad style.  Key tips will be given as to what the construction should be based on, i.e. the Y shaped support structure and parallel railway runners.  They will be supplied with various jigs and ample supplies of machine rolled paper rods.  The concept will see the group constructing Y shaped supports, holding the railway runners.

On completion groups will need to figure out how to travel the ball.
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Participants each hold a piece of track and work together to link this simple structure to the next participant forming an aerial Mexican railway track.   By coordinating their movements (the lifting and lowering of their piece of track) the wave moves brightly coloured balls along the railway track.

Additional challenges can be added to this team building exercise such as more than one ball or racing various railways, head to head.