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- 2010
- Group size
- 20 to 6,000+
- Where we run activities
- 50 states + Canada
- Formats
- In person or virtual
12 team building activities in Hartford and across Connecticut
Each one is an activity our facilitators have run for groups in Connecticut, with the town, the venue and the group size it suited.
1. Bike Build Donation
Teams earn bike parts in quick challenges, assemble the bikes, then hand them to local kids at the end. A team of 70 built them on a corporate campus in downtown Hartford in May 2025, 50 at the Hilton Stamford, and 35 at the Cambria Hotel in New Haven.
2. Locate and Donate SmartHunt
Teams use iPads to solve photo and video challenges on a set route, collecting surprise packages that add up to a donation for a local charity. An insurance group of 100 started theirs from the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford in March 2024.
3. Trivia Blast Live!
A hosted trivia show with answer pads, live scoring and a leaderboard on the big screen. It suits a conference evening, and an insurance group of 80 played it at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford in March 2024.
4. Bears and Blankets
Teams make teddy bears and blankets for young children in distress, then donate them through local agencies. A retail health team of 125 made them at their own Hartford offices in May 2026.
5. Mini-golf build with a food donation
Teams design and build mini-golf holes out of canned and boxed food, play the course, then donate the food to a local food bank. A manufacturer ran it twice at its West Hartford offices, for groups of 40 and 50.
6. Team Olympics
Teams rotate through field-day events and finish with a medal ceremony, indoors or out. A financial services group of 250 played it in Milford, and a manufacturing team of 35 at its office in Berlin in June 2026.
7. Momentum
Each team designs and builds a Rube Goldberg style chain reaction machine to do one simple task, and the best design wins. A pharmaceutical team of 75 built them in Danbury in November 2024, and a group of 60 in Stamford in September 2026.
8. Competition to Collaboration
A facilitated training activity: two sub-teams first compete against each other, then find out how much better both score when they share what works. It has run for 40 at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield and for a healthcare team of 13 in Hartford.
9. Amazing Chase SmartHunt
An iPad race with puzzles, photo challenges and Road Blocks, scored live on a leaderboard. A consulting group of 73 ran it in Norwalk in July 2024, and a team of 16 raced around downtown Hartford.
10. Build-A-Guitar
Teams earn parts, assemble acoustic guitars and play them before donating them to a youth music program. A group of 200 built them at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich, and 140 at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
11. Igniting Team Performance
A training activity of progressive challenges, each followed by a debrief that the team applies in the next round. A technology team of 100 ran it at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket in January 2023.
12. A Minute 2 Win It!
One-minute challenges with cups, balloons and pencils, scored live by our host. Connecticut groups have played it from 50 people in Shelton up to 500 at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
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Where Connecticut groups meet
Our Connecticut events cluster in two places. In and around Hartford, insurance, healthcare and manufacturing teams meet at the Connecticut Convention Center or in their own offices. In Fairfield County, Stamford, Greenwich and Norwalk host financial services and pharmaceutical groups, and Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket takes the largest meetings. Our facilitators bring every kit, so the venue can be your own office.
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Getting there
Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks sits about halfway between Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts, and is the second-largest airport in New England. By rail, the CTrail Hartford Line runs from New Haven Union Station through Wallingford, Meriden and Berlin to Hartford Union Station and on to Springfield, with connections south toward New York.
Matching the room to the group
The Connecticut Convention Center on the Hartford riverfront calls itself the largest convention facility between New York and Boston, so a charity build for several hundred people fits with room to spare. For a team of 15 to 80, a hotel function room in Stamford or New Haven, or your own conference room, is plenty for a game show, a training session or a packing build.
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