Build-a-Guitar®: A Rock-Inspired Team Building Experience That Gives Back
Build-a-Guitar® is a unique charitable team building event where your group collaborates to assemble and donate high-quality electric guitars to music programs in schools and nonprofit organizations. Combining creativity, communication, and a shared mission, this experience strikes all the right chords.
Created and trademarked by Best Corporate Events, Build-a-Guitar® is a feel-good, music-themed CSR experience that engages participants through teamwork and fun challenges—while supporting the next generation of student musicians.
Program Agenda
The event kicks off with a fun musical energizer and an overview from your professional lead facilitator. Teams of 10 compete in interactive games—like Brainstorm or Minute 2 Win It—to earn the components needed to assemble guitars for donation.
Brainstorm is a browser-based group activity that includes photo and video challenges, trivia, and puzzles. Teams earn points through these challenges, which they redeem for guitar parts at the “music store.”
Once all components are collected, teams move into the build phase, assembling guitars with support from periodic inspections to ensure proper functionality. Along the way, each team will also:
- Capture photos and videos of their progress
- Design and decorate a poster that reflects their unique band identity
- Prepare their completed guitars with accessories like a personal amplifier, tuner, strap, picks, and carrying case
The experience often ends with a spontaneous photo session—or even a jam session. When possible, a representative from the benefiting charity or school addresses the group to share the real-world impact of their donation.
Program Outcomes & Takeaways
Our Build-a-Guitar® program:
- Promotes collaboration, strategy, and creativity
- Engages teams through fast-paced group challenges
- Fosters a sense of purpose through charitable impact
- Reinforces communication and problem-solving in a fun environment
- Delivers a tangible and meaningful gift to a student in need
Program Customization
This program can be tailored to suit your group’s needs and goals, including:
- Choice of challenge activities
- Collaboration with our charitable coordination team to select recipient organization(s)
- Customized musical genre or era theme
Ready to make music and make a difference? Book your Build-a-Guitar® team event today and help participants discover the power of music.
Build-a-Guitar® is a registered trademark of Best Corporate Events, LLC. Program structure and activities may be modified based on group size, timing, or venue needs.
Our historically popular iPad activities are still available upon request.
When I contacted our national charity organizations, including the Boys and Girls Club, about what instruments are most needed for their music programs, they all said guitars! That turned out to be a real challenge, but I am thrilled to finally be able to add this cool program to our lineup of charitable CSR events.
I say finally because the key was the guitar. You can’t build a DIY guitar in an hour because they need to be sanded, stained, coated and then assembled, which takes hours because it involves gluing necks, drilling holes, and soldering connections.
So we hired a top guitar company to build us a guitar kit from scratch, with instructions, that could be assembled in an hour without all the steps mentioned above. They are excellent quality; one-of-a-kind guitar kits build exclusively for Best Corporate Events and they sound great! And each guitar comes with a strap, tuner, picks, and even an amplifier!