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Colleges and universities are always asking what our most popular programs are - so we've decided to list them on our website for you! As you can see, our most popular programs span all categories, from Team Building, SmartHunts, Charitable Programs, and Entertainment Events.

With Breaking Through, your group will experience an emotional and physical metaphor that will help illuminate mental blocks, internalized phobias, and limitations that hold them back in their personal, educational, and professional lives. This program is a memorable, empowering, high-energy experience that can create the confidence and connections that your students and faculty need. Everyone walks out of the door inspired to take action like never before!

  • Group Size: 30 to 500
  • Program Length: 90 minutes to 2 hours
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Momentum is an inventive team building event where each sub-team will be tasked with designing and building a Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction machine to accomplish a simple task. Teams must collaborate and strategize together to not only create a successful contraption but also to out-design other teams and ultimately be declared the Momentum champions!

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 90 minutes
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Immerse your group in a world of mystery, intrigue, and detective work with our exciting team challenge, Crack the Case! In this fun challenge, participants will be placed in the shoes of trainees close to completing a private investigator course, studying to become elite detectives. The program is a challenge that is the final test of their skills before receiving certification as detectives. In order to succeed, they must work together to solve a series of puzzles and challenges designed to test creative thinking, problem-solving, ingenuity, and deductive reasoning. Ultimately, the group must solve all the challenges in the test to crack the case and prove their prowess as detectives.

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 90 minutes to 2 hours
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BEST Collegiate Feud is our higher education game show with fast-paced rounds of survey questions specifically written for collegiate groups. Winning “teams” move forward to the semi-finals and hopefully, to the Finale. Our unique design keeps everyone involved throughout the show, regardless of your group size. No matter how many points are on the scoreboard, you can be confident that your participants will score big with this BEST Collegiate Feud!

  • Group Size: 30 to 1000+
  • Program Length: 1 to 1.5 hours
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This engaging get-to-know-you event incorporates a series of fun and challenging icebreaker activities, conducted in small table group rotations. After every 15-minute challenge, teams are quickly reformed, and a new challenge begins, allowing for maximum networking opportunities. This team-building program is a fun and engaging way to strengthen bonds and encourage open and productive participant interaction.

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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Whether your team is newly formed, an existing group or project team, or a team that already works well together, this dynamic training session will measure your group's teamwork proficiency, identify areas that need improvement, and deliver activities custom-tailored to those needs. Fun and fast-paced, participants will engage in increasingly difficult challenges, each one preceded by brief yet powerful group discussions. This program is easily modified to accommodate your collegiate group's unique makeup and set goals.

  • Group Size: Any
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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Our engaging, trademarked training program highlights the positive impacts of collegiate community synergy, both in sharing best practices and celebrating your colleagues’ successes. It begins with two sub-teams completing various challenges separately, attempting to improve their performance, and reaching goals for the other team to beat. This is followed by a surprise twist that reinforces the message of team collaboration.

  • Group Size: Up to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 3 hours
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Mini-Golf Food Donation is a fun charity team building program in which your group will design, construct, and play a mini-golf course using canned and boxed food items. Each team will create a hole that has a unique theme and rules, unique to that hole. After the course has been built, an entertaining tournament ensues with scoring and fun competition. Once completed, the course will be deconstructed and the food donated to a predetermined food bank or similar organization.

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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A charitable program that will touch your heart, Build-a-Wheelchair® is a fun, worthwhile event that benefits Americans with mobility impairments. Beginning with various iPad® activities to earn the needed materials, teams will then assemble, safety test and decorate new wheelchairs for donation. When possible, a representative from the selected charity will arrive to accept and thank your group for their contributions.

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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Learning to play music can have a very powerful and positive effect on young people. With Build-a-Guitar®, collegiate groups have the opportunity to build and donate guitars to deserving youth music programs. As the name suggests, teams are tasked to build high-quality guitars from custom designed kits. The finished guitars are then donated to teens through schools and other youth organizations.

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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In this worthwhile program, fun and charitable giving combine for an event your group will never forget. Following a kick-off icebreaker, teams will receive iPads® loaded with our event app that contains team trivia, activities, and photo & video challenges. Teams must complete these to earn trips to our bike store, where they will find the parts to build and decorate bikes for deserving children!

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 1.5 to 2.5 hours
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Available in indoor and outdoor versions! This set of fun and engaging team building games combines high-energy competition with basic athletic ability, allowing for full and active participation for everyone in the group. Set to music that will pump up the excitement, teams are formed and assigned a color for easy identification. Next, your designated VIP will take the opening lap around the playing field, and the games begin. Your group will have a blast as they compete to stand on the winner's podium.

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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An Orientation SmartHunt® is an excellent way for students to experience their new school in a way through shared laughter, exploration, learning, fun, and strategy building. Photo missions, video challenges, and trivia questions guide teams on an orienteering scavenger hunt around their new campus. Our SmartHunts® App is loaded on iPads® we provide, and can be customized for your school and your unique goals.

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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Our Orientation Game Show is the most fun and exciting way to introduce your college or university to incoming students. The Orientation Game Show is a full participant, full engagement Game Show, and a custom experience, with questions that can be tailored to your college or university’s history, campus, fun facts, and general knowledge. Students will earn points in this fun competition, but more importantly, they will be gaining knowledge about their new college or university, and school pride!

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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Explore a museum, local landmark, or an entire city with the City SmartHunt®, hands-down the coolest smart-tech scavenger hunt in the industry. Equipped with Apple® iPads® containing our proprietary app, your group will be led on an exciting journey as they hunt for items, solve clues, answer trivia, and more. Each hunt is customized to accommodate your group’s size, location, and event goals.

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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As seen on the popular TV game show, our version of "A Minute 2 Win It!" has been adapted for team play, with rounds of fast-paced tabletop challenges. The competition heats up as teams have the chance to learn, practice, and compete for the best score in one-minute games using commonplace items like pencils, plastic cups, and a deck of cards. Teams will cheer and have a blast as they vie to be named "A Minute 2 Win It!" Champions!

  • Group Size: 30 to 1,000+
  • Program Length: 2 hours
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Something Else?

Don’t see what you are looking for? We have a wide range of events and options not listed here, and we are always open to new ideas! Choose “Something Else” on the request form and let’s work together to create the perfect event for your group!

Invent an Event!

Do you have your own great idea? We love to collaborate to customize existing programs or create something new from scratch. Let’s combine your ideas with our experience and expertise to design the perfect event for your group. Choose “Custom Event” on our request form and call us at 800.380.1983 and we will get to work for you!

Go Corporate!

Did you know that Best Collegiate Events is the higher education division of America’s #1 rated corporate event company Best Corporate Events? For corporate groups, meeting and event planners, DMCs, M&Is, and organizations, we deliver a complete line of team building programs, charitable CSR events, corporate entertainment, SmartHunts, and professional development workshops!