This is a 2 hour team building workshop for an audience of almost 30 people. The theme is to connect, to influence and to inspire. It addresses the importance of teamwork and human collaboration.
8. How Do You Balance 12 Nails on a
Single Nailhead?
9. Balancing Nails
Find the center of gravity as twelve nails
find precarious stability on the head of just
one nail.
The object is to balance a bunch of nails
on the head of a single nail. All of the nails
have to be balanced at the same time and
cannot touch anything but the top of the
nail that is stuck in the base. Are you up to
the challenge?
21. rules_
Paper Toss is set in an office. The player's objective is to flick a piece of paper into a bin.
To make the game more challenging we need three volunteers!
Each blindfolded volunteer will have to throw a paper ball 5 times. The rest of the audience
provides feedback.
1. The first will have to do it having no guidance (verbal or nonverbal). This person
receives absolutely no feedback.
2. The second will have to do it receiving negative, sometimes rude, feedback.
3. The third receives positive feedback (re-enforcement) with detailed guidelines as to
what it takes to score.
Why Does Atomic Structure Matter?
Now: does it matter how atoms are arranged in a solid? The answer here too is: Yes!
The best example of this is carbon. We all know that carbon is one of the most important elements in our planet; all living things contain carbon. Pure carbon is known to us as diamond, if arranged one way in three dimensions; and graphite if arranged in another.
In diamond, all the carbon atoms have strong chemical bonds to four other carbon atoms, making perfect tetrahedra on and on throughout the crystal.
Diamond (left) and graphite (right) are both made of carbon atoms, but arranged in different ways. Image source
In graphite, all the carbon atoms have strong chemical bonds to three other carbon atoms, making sheets that look like chicken wire; weak forces hold the sheets together in stacks that can slide past each other easily. When you’re writing with a pencil on paper, it’s these sheets that are sliding apart to leave the graphite chunks behind as a mark on the paper.
Why Does Atomic Structure Matter?
Now: does it matter how atoms are arranged in a solid? The answer here too is: Yes!
The best example of this is carbon. We all know that carbon is one of the most important elements in our planet; all living things contain carbon. Pure carbon is known to us as diamond, if arranged one way in three dimensions; and graphite if arranged in another.
In diamond, all the carbon atoms have strong chemical bonds to four other carbon atoms, making perfect tetrahedra on and on throughout the crystal.
Diamond (left) and graphite (right) are both made of carbon atoms, but arranged in different ways. Image source
In graphite, all the carbon atoms have strong chemical bonds to three other carbon atoms, making sheets that look like chicken wire; weak forces hold the sheets together in stacks that can slide past each other easily. When you’re writing with a pencil on paper, it’s these sheets that are sliding apart to leave the graphite chunks behind as a mark on the paper.
We all come from different background, having different perspectives and worldviews.