The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Austin

Heather here from American Outback Adventures & Events

We just completed a great philanthropic event – The Apprentice, with a group of highly competitive teams in Austin, Texas. Each team was tasked with building a child’s bicycle and then judged on 3 components – the building function, the creative customization and marketing presentation to sell the bike. These teams really captured the spirit of a child in their presentations, and then donated these bikes to local deserving children through a charity of their choice. Not only did these teams compete for bragging rights and practice some great skills like time management, strategy, and communication, they also worked hard to put a smile on a child’s face.

If you think your company can benefit from a great event like this, give us a call.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Tucson

Hi, this is Heather with American Outback Adventures & Events with an update from the natural state of Arizona.

We just wrapped up a great event called The Apprentice. A philanthropic team building activity that tasks teams with building a children’s bicycle, creatively customizing that bicycle and creating a marketing campaign. Not only do the teams utilize team work, communication and time management, but they also work hard to give back to the local community and put smiles on children’s faces.

If you believe your company can benefit from a great event like this, please contact us at American Outback.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in White Plains

From American Adventures & Events, I am Heather and we completed a very special activity today – The Apprentice.

This versatile, indoor or outdoor activity tasks competing teams with building a child’s bicycle. Being judged on building functionality, creative customization and a marketing presentation for the bike. These teams of international colleagues had to use some serious time management, collaboration and communication skills as they were on a time crunch to donate these bikes to some well deserving local boys and girls. The teams, families and kiddos were all joyful as we presented the bikes to their new owners.

If you believe your company can benefit from a team building activity like this one, please contact us.

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Random Acts of Kindness - Corporate Team Building Activity in San Antonio

Hello there! It’s Heather with an American Outback Adventures & Events update.

We have just completed a Random Act of Kindness activity on a beautiful, cloudless day in San Antonio. This group of nurses set out on the river walk with open hearts and resourceful minds. Tasks with completing as many Random Acts of Kindness as possible, these teams work together to accomplish some amazing things - from flash mob dances and giving high fives to a group of kids, to helping a window washer who washes windows. One team treated a stranger to his very first ice cream sundae. The teams raved about invigorated they felt, getting involved in the community and creatively bringing kindness to their community.

If you believe that your company could benefit from an exciting team building activity like this one, please contact us at AmericanOutback.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in St. Petersburg

Hi, this is Heather with another American Outback Adventures & Events corporate team building update.

Last week, we are in St. Petersburg, Florida at the beautiful Renessaince Vinoy, hosting our charitable bike building activity – TheApprentice, for a local group of HR professionals. The teams competed against each other in this battle of brains, braun, and business, to build and decorate a children’s bicycle. They were then tasked with creating a marketing campaign for their bike. Teams were able to overcome all obstacles placed before them and worked together, but in the end, there could be only one winner of the Apprentice. A representative and children from local boys and girls club attended the event to receive the bikes and tell us more about the amazing work the charity does for children and communities around the world, and the children were overjoyed to take home their new bikes.

Get in touch with one of our event solutions experts today to find out how your team can come together and give back with our Apprentice event.

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The Apprentice / Minute To Win It - Corporate Team Building Activity in Orange County

This is James from American Outback Adventures with another event update.

Today we are in beautiful, sunny southern California at the St. Regis hotel, the 5 star resort down here. We’ve been contracted by a biotech company to provide a full day of team building. Now, in the morning they chose our Apprentice program which is a beautiful, wonderful program. It involves creativity, planning, group problem solving, but ultimately, the end goal is that each team gets to put together a bike, and that bike gets to be donated to a child here in Orange County, or if we did it in your town, it would be donated to a child in your area. So it’s a great way to support the community, it’s a great way to explore team concepts with your team. Our charity came in, explained to the group the impact that that bike was gonna make on the demographic that they serve, and it was a touching moment, lots of heartfelt high fives, hugs, and the team definitely, definitely got a sense of what their donation was gonna do.

Now in the afternoon, after we broke for lunch, the team opted for something a little bit, I’m gonna go goofier, silly-er. These guys chose our Minute to Win It program, and let me tell you folks, the Minute to Win It program is the perfect way to just relax and let loose for an afternoon of fun team activities. If you have ever seen the TV show, you know you compete in a series of 1 minute seemingly simple challenges but you compete as an individual. With our version, we’ve taken those seemingly simple challenges and created team activities out of each one. So if your team is the team that completes the most challenges with the most number of points, you’re gonna win the Minute to Win It challenge. We had a winner today, it was a great time. Everybody left with smiles, lots of laughter.

If you’d like to book an event with American Outback Adventures, just check us out on americanoutback.net and we’ll see you on the next one.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Las Vegas

Hi, this is Emma from American Outback Adventures & Events, here to share some photos and information about our recent ApprenticeBike Build in Las Vegas.

This event was held at the SLS hotel which was a great unique venue, really helpful and on top of it. The excitement in this event began with over a hundred and sixty participants. We had 23 bikes that we’re building for a local Nevada charity. At the end of this event, the charity came out and spoke a little bit about what it means to them and the kids to be receiving these bikes. Everyone in the crowd was impressed with the charity and the work that they have done over the course of the 3 hours. The bikes looked amazing and they were going to a great home.

If you think that your company would enjoy a great community building, team building activity like this one, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Redmond

Hi, it’s Jules with another corporate event update with American Outback Adventures & Events.

Today we were in Redmond, Washington where we hosted a custom Apprentice event for a large technology company. Their goal was to customize our event to fit their theme of their meetings, which was all about startup ventures. There were representatives from all over the world, Germany to China to the US. Teams were tasked to create a unique startup company name and a product name, and were asked to present their final completed bike in front of the group. We tailored our quiz to include questions about their startup theme, which gave teams the opportunity to purchase more decorative items to customize their bikes. When it came time to present, it was all hands on deck, and of course, being a technology company, they used all the resources at their disposal to create some amazing presentations on powerpoint to the group, all while showcasing their product. At the end of the event, these bikes were donated to families in the community with the help of a local organization.

If you are interested in a fun and engaging activity like this, please visit our website and speak with one of our event solutions experts to learn more.

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Play It Forward - Corporate Team Building Activity in Des Moines

Hi, it’s Jules with another corporate event update with American Outback Adventures & Events.

It was a beautiful day in Des Moines, Iowa, where we hosted our Play It Forward event for a local property management company who was celebrating their 30^th Anniversary. This group had 60 participants ranging from 25 years with the company to only 4 days. So the goal for this event was to provide an opportunity for everyone to get to know their colleagues a bit better, all while giving back to their community. A community they have been such a big part of over the years. Teams made their way outside to the streets of Des Moines and had a blast completing all the random acts of kindness, they teamed up with other teams and there was even 1 team who managed to give blood as their top good deed for the day. Upon return, the group was all smiles and had plenty of fun and heart warming stories to share with each other.

If you’re interested in organizing a fun and unique team building activity like this one, please visit our website and speak with one of our event solutions experts. We are happy and excited to work with you.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Bethesda

Hi there, Shannon here with another corporate event update from American Outback Adventures & Events.

Today we did an Apprentice here in Bethesda, Maryland. Our participants today came directly from a work day to have some drinks, fun, and give back at a local restaurant. It was a small group of about 14 people, but just because they were small in size, didn’t mean they were small in ideas. These teams created some seriously creative bike décor and marketing presentations. The intimacy of the event really brought these co-workers closer together and even the biggest skeptic left the event feeling thrilled.

To learn more about how your teams can have it all, fun and philanthropy, without having to do any of the work, visit us at www.americanoutback.net

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in North Carolina

We hosted our charitable team building event, The Apprentice, for a group of marketing professionals at the Durham Bulls Ball Park in Durham, North Carolina.

The Apprentice is the perfect event for a group who wants to bring their team together in a meaningful activity and to give back to their community. In this activity, teams are tasked with building, decorating, and presenting a children’s bicycle. They must strategically plan how they will complete the task within the given time and work with their strengths in order to succeed. Teams must use the limited amount of American Outback money provided to purchase all tools and decorative items they need to complete their assignment. For this event, we partnered with the East Durham Children’s Initiative to donate the bikes to children in the local community. The EDCI attended the event, shared photos with the team, and helped them to understand the impact of their donation.

Call us today to find out how you can bring your team together and give back to your community with American Outback Adventures & Events' The Apprentice.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Austin

Hi there, this is Emma from American Outback Adventures & Events.

And I just wanted to let everyone know about our amazing Apprentice Bike Build event. This one was spectacular. We ran it in Austin, Texas, one of my favorite cities to go to and, what really made this event special was the charity involved. We got the Boys and Girls Club to come out, and not only did they send a representative, but they had kids come to this one. It was great timing because this event was in the afternoon, so it was after the kids got out of school, and they were able to bus them over just in time to catch all the team’s presentations. It really added that extra special element to the end of the event. All the participants got to meet the kids, have picture taken with the bikes and with the kids and really just add that give back, full circle community feeling to the end of this event. Besides, all of the participants got to know their co-workers just a little bit better, got to have a fun, creative adventurous afternoon with them and got to meet wonderful kids who received these bikes at the end of the event.

If this is something that your company would enjoy, especially at this time of year, heading into the holidays, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

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Art Of Giving - Corporate Team Building Activity in Florida

Hi there, Shannon here with another corporate event update from American Outback Adventures & Events.

Today we had a custom Art Of Giving here in Clearwater, Florida. These destination experts wanted to incorporate their conference’s destination in their event, and what’s a better theme than Gasparilla! - The weekend long, pirate themed extravaganza here every spring in Clearwater, Tampa Bay area. Teams were all decked out in their pirate gear and used their own donations, as well as American Outback provided can, boxes and craft supplies, to build themselves a Gasparilla themed sculpture. Sixteen teams out of the 18 teams we had today built some pretty phenomenal pirate ships. One team created a giant treasure chest and one team created an actual pirate. It was a phenomenal way to have some fun with benefits. We were able to donate about $2,500 worth of canned goods to a local food bank.

To learn more about how you can have it all, a fun, engaging team building event while giving back to the community, visit us at www.americanoutback.net

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Salt Lake City

Hi everyone, this is Emma from American Outback Adventures & Events.

Here to share a little bit about our Apprentice Bike Build event with you. This one is great heading in to the colder season, it can be done indoors and any space. We bring all the supplies with us so that you are able to just focus on having a great event with your co-workers. This, of course, includes the charity, so these bikes go back to kids in the area, whether they be from foster kids to low income kids, many children love the gift of having a fun childhood and getting out and exercising, having a way to get to and from school or just being able to go out and ride bikes with their friends. This event is something amazing you and your co-workers can do together to feel good and give back.

If you like to plan an event like this with your group, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Chicago

Hi, this is Emma from American Outback Adventures & Events.

Here to share a little bit of our Apprentice event with you. Most commonly, this is done as a bike build event. It’s one of our most popular events, especially as we head in to the fall and holiday season. Because this is a community building and give back event, this is such a good way to celebrate the end of the year with your team. You build bikes for kids, and then, partnering with a local charity, they come in and accept the bikes at the end of the event. So, the participants have a chance to really focus on giving back to that area and what’s gonna happen to these bikes afterwards. They build them, decorate them, and then of course come up with their innovative commercial to sell these bikes, earning them the most points possible to be crowned the champions. Of course, the real winner of this event is always the charity, especially if they can come in, talk a little bit about where these bikes are going and what they do.

If you like to hear more about our partners and charities that we can help you with this bike build community event, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Boston

Hi there, Shannon here with another corporate event update from American Outback Adventures & Events.

Today we had an Apprentice in Boston, Massachusetts. This return client was a group of scientists in a large Boston company. They were finishing up a long, brain busting project and wanted to kick back and have a little fun to celebrate their success, and what better way to do that than team building! Teams of five created some seriously funky bikes – a Spiderman bike, a Ninja Turtle bike, and my personal favorite, the “Up Up and Away” bike. It was so much fun to watch these scientists use their incredible minds for some fun.

To learn more about how we can help your team celebrate success, visit us at www.americanoutback.net

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in New York

Hi there, this is Jordan with another corporate event update from American Outback Adventures & Events.

Our latest event, The Apprentice, was planned for a group of sales managers from the entrance systems industry. What made this event extra special was the venue. We had the opportunity to host the event at the Ronald McDonald house at central New York, making for a huge impact with the participants, as well as the host. Teams needed to complete three tasks to be successful – assembling a functioning children’s bike, the unique and creative customization of the children’s bike, and finally, the creation and presentation of an advertising campaign to promote the bike. At the end of the activity, bikes were donated to deserving families in the community, through the Ronald McDonald house. Not only did the group will come together as a team and work in a new environment, they worked towards providing deserving children in the community a gift that will surely put a smile in their faces.

If you’d like to plan a memorable event for your company, please visit www.americanoutback.net and get started today. Thanks again and bye for now!

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Cincinnati

Hi there! This is Emma from American Outback Adventures & Events.

This event that I’m talking to you about today is our Apprentice Bike Build event. This one is one of our most popular and favorite events. Companies come back year after year to run this one. Not only because it's great for their employees or their new hires or their management team to work together in this type of creative atmosphere, but it ties the company to the community. These bikes go to a charity either that we can find or that the client chooses. So in this one, the charity was in Cincinnati and they work with foster kids and getting kids adopted. So these bikes were going to specific children, and at the end of the event, the representative was able to do a slide show, showing the photos of the kids that would be receiving the bikes that they had just finished building. The teams loved getting to meet the kids, really helped them customize the bikes and have the best experience possible. Of course, their advertising and commercials were just hilarious to the end, as you can see they had costumes and had tonnes of fun coming together to work with the community.

If you think that you and your company could benefit from a great community event like this one, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

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The Apprentice - Corporate Team Building Activity in Las Vegas

Hi everyone, this is James from American Outback Adventures with another corporate event update.

We just got done with a fantastic event here in Las Vegas, it was fun, we were laughing, we were dancing, we were just having a great time and in the end, through the efforts of a biotech company that we partnered with, eight very deserving boys and girls now have brand new bicycles. It’s amazing, I love this event. This group came out and they participated in what we call our Apprentice event, so the teams completed challenges to earn money. They completed challenges to earn other marketing materials so they could put together a marketing presentation. After they finish building their bike, they then had to market their bike as though they were marketing to people in their industry. We saw scientific machines, we saw bikes turned into amazing contraptions, there were singing, there was dancing, there were words that rhyme, it was a great time. In the end, everybody left with huge smiles on their faces, we even had a lip sync contest. It was insane!

If you’d like to plan a fantastic experience for your corporate team, check us out online at americanoutback.net and contact my awesome team.

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Random Acts Of Kindness - Corporate Team Building Activity in San Francisco

Hey everyone! It’s Michelle with American Outback Adventures & Events with another corporate event update.

We have just finished a Random Acts of Kindness in downtown San Francisco. We had a group with a teacher’s board that was on site from all over California and they were tasked with doing challenges that were philanthropic, give back style program. They completed this in Japan town in San Francisco, they had a great time, we had groups buy groceries and lunch for people and give away coffees and get everybody involved in mob flash dances and I think they really brightened up the city of San Francisco today and they had a fantastic time.

If you would like to do a great event like this for you and your corporate group, please contact us online at americanoutback.net.

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