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Build-a-Guitar®

A Rock-Inspired Team Building Experience That Gives Back

Learning to play music can have a very powerful and positive effect on young people. With Build-a-Guitar®, corporate groups have the opportunity to build and donate guitars to young people. 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.

  • 30 to 1,000+
  • 2 to 2.5 hours
  • Indoor

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Build-a-Guitar®

Group Size
30 to 1,000+
Per Team
10
Length
2 to 2.5 hours
Setting
Indoor
Physicality
Low
Space
25 sq. ft. per person

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

  • 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.

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What Clients Say About Build-a-Guitar®

THANK YOU again so much for your time yesterday. All the attendees had a blast with the Build-a-Guitar activity. Both you and your staff were amazing! I hope to work with you again in the future. We can’t wait to get all the pictures and videos that were captured on the iPads so I can share with our clients.

Aimia

Amanda

Aimia

More client comments

We have done your Build-a-Guitar program in the past, and I have recommended you to other groups. The best part of our Build-a-Guitar event was watching the teams work together and laugh and have fun! The event was very organized and your staff had everything laid out and set-up in an orderly fashion for our program. The pictures we took of the team while doing the different planned photos was the best! It was great to have the principal of the school come and tell us about the program. That was very special. We will definitely use Best Corporate Events again!

Shirley

Salesforce

Salesforce

Our Build-a-Guitar with iPads was an extremely organized event. The icebreakers at the beginning of the program were great. The iPad activities we needed to act out in front of our group was the most fun. Our group loved the activities and charitable aspect of the program; all of it was absolutely amazing. Can’t wait for the next one!

Christine

Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits

Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits

The iPad challenges were a really fun part of our Build-a-Guitar program! The teams enjoyed the actual building of the guitars because they learned something new. Our group enjoyed both the activities and the charitable aspect of the event as well. Everything went better than expected. Your lead facilitator and her team were amazing.

Desiree

CAT Financial

CAT Financial

Our group of 650 TruGreen employees had an amazing time at their event. The best team building aspect of the Build-a-Guitar program was seeing the teams work together. The most fun was seeing the end results of our attendee’s efforts and the kids playing the guitars.

Rhonda

TruGreen

TruGreen

Your lead facilitator was excellent and the entire Build-a-Guitar program was extremely organized and well run. Getting a disparate group of people to work together for the first time to build and market their guitar was the ultimate team builder. The most fun was the judging portion and marketing category of the guitar build. Everyone seemed to genuinely enjoy the activity and the charitable component – Great Spirit was present throughout the event.

Craig

Exelon

Exelon

The best team building aspect of the program was getting the group working together on something totally ‘outside’ their wheelhouses. The entire program was so much fun! The activities gave the group a great sense of satisfaction that working together they could do something for their community and give a little of themselves. Our facilitator was very fun as well.

Jamie

Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab

Best team-building E-V-E-R! Wow-what an engaging, dynamic, non-stop fun team-building, experience! It truly engaged everyone; all personality types found their role; analytical, creative, expressive and motivated. With the wide variety of tasks and roles, it made everyone needed and important to the process. We didn’t know one another, but by the end of the event, we were all hugging and high fiving and can’t wait to see each other again. It was a ton of fun and our end product, the guitars, went to a great cause and everyone on our team can’t wait to get to do it again! I would highly recommend Best Corporate – Do it – you will be glad you did!

Cyndee

Future Home Realty

Future Home Realty

We can’t thank you and your team enough for helping to create another very meaningful event for our community of support and the organizations benefiting from our programs. The Build-a-Guitar event was a hit! I saw smiles all around and could tell everyone was having such a fun time. I truly feel it is events like these that help us to drive further value and foster a strong sense of engagement. Your lead facilitator and team were awesome again and always so delightful to work with. Thank you all again for a great event!

Steve

Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation

Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation

Our facilitator was the best! The group challenges were great in teambuilding. He deserves 5+++ stars. He was so much fun and you can tell he really enjoys his job. This was one of the best team building events our large group ever took part in. The event was fun and it was so worthwhile to see the joy on the student’s faces when they saw the guitars that were being donated.

Lori

QCS Purchasing

QCS Purchasing

This is our third time using Best Corporate Events, it has always been a worthwhile investment in our people and you guys make it so fun and painless. The icebreaker really got everyone in the room excited and engaged and the iPad challenges were very well received. Marketing the guitar was very funny and helped the staff tap into their creative sides. Your lead facilitator was fantastic and I received incredibly positive feedback about the Build-a-Guitar program on the day of the event and into the next week.

Jessica

Jefferson Health

Jefferson Health

Our group really loved coming together to build guitars for the Boys and Girls club. They loved the Charitable part of the Build-a-Guitar program. This was their favorite part. Our teams also had fun during the ice breaker, but they had fun throughout the program! Indy was super engaging and MADE the event! We really enjoyed partnering together on this!

Briana

AVAIL

AVAIL

We just had a very organized Build-a-Guitar program. The activities were great. The ice breakers really got the room engaged and pumped up! The quiz was the most fun and the assembling of the guitars was a great team builder for our group. Your lead Indy was excellent! He was a perfect facilitator for the guitar build.

Tara

Gordian

Gordian

Everyone LOVED the program and can’t wait to see the videos or photos of the kids receiving their guitars. Indy and his team did a fantastic job!

Sandra

BNSF Logistics

BNSF Logistics

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!

Scott Flynn – CEO

Best Corporate Events

Best Corporate Events

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