Celebrating 40+ Years
Strategic Games is a Dynamic team-building program that is filled with fast-paced problem-solving challenges that reinforce the core values of teams and strategic goals of your organization. Participants are intentionally mixed and remixed across activities, encouraging cross-department collaboration and exposes team members to new perspectives, strengths, and working styles. With every completed challenge, the bar is raised…
Venture Up’s Bike Builder Challenge for Kids in Need is our most popular charity team building event. Teams warm up with quick Energizers, then assemble, decorate, and safety test brand-new bikes for underserved children ages 5 to 10. Each group receives a child’s name and creates a personalized bike and card, delivering a fast, meaningful, and highly rewarding team experience.
Venture Up’s Amazing Race is a fast-paced, city-based team building adventure where teams solve clues, complete challenges, and navigate local landmarks. Designed for all abilities – correctness matters more than speed! Each race features location-specific tasks, and bonus challenges. There’s no better way to experience a city than in this memorable, high-energy group event!
Escape the Case is Venture Up’s hit conference-room escape game is for groups of 10-500+. Teams organize fractured clues through a series of locked metal cases using clues, ciphers, and clever tools. Fast, high-tech, and wildly fun, with a surprise final collaboration twist to unite the group. Lightly based on the escape room concept but built with 40+ years of professional team development experience.
Game On corporate Olympics is a creative mix of team competition, problem-solving challenges and fun. It can also be run inside or outdoors.
No manuals, no technical support and no two ways to create the life-size motorless car that will send your team “volunteer” across the finish line in winning style. Venture Up’s Mega Car 500 is a fun and colorful event that requires teams to design and produce human–propelled race vehicles from scratch.
Rise up to the challenge with our Team Survivor and Minute-to-Win- combo program, inspired by the popular TV shows. This interactive event relies on ingenuity, quick thinking, and skillful collaboration, and is suitable for teams diverse in every possible way.
The program is fast-paced, fun and competitive. Teams stay intact throughout the event, moving station-to-station, facing tricky obstacles and taking on problem-solving games. After successfully completing each challenge, teams win a certain number of beads depending on how quickly they finish each task. The more beads a teams wins, the closer they are to victory.
Being aware of the strict time limit energizes the team from the onset. They quickly engage, share their talents as they compete with other teams. They’re having fun, working intensely, under self-imposed pressure and find new ways to be efficient and productive at every turn.
The program culminates in a festive finale when all the teams return to the central meeting area. Top performers are announced, and the winning teams revel in victory. What has the most impact for many teams is how Venture Up leaders tie the experience in at the finale. Teams at work must stay competitive to keep a leading edge in driving their team, their department and company forward.
Ask us about these popular activities to include in your event: Rat-a-pult Building, The Maze, Teamwood, Bag-it, Arrowheads, Bit Dicey, String Race, Scrabbled, Focus Tubes, Minds that Matter, Inked, Knott’s Not, Flip It, Animal Crossing and many more.
There is something uniquely challenging and seriously fun about running team building events in Washington, D.C. This is not a city known for resort-style meetings, open bars, or casual rewards trips. More often, meeting planners bring Venture Up into focused, high-stakes environments where teams are working on global issues, policy, government initiatives, or complex business matters. Time is limited, agendas are full, and expectations are high. In Washington, D.C., the message we hear most is simple: it has to be fun.
Creating a meaningful team building experience in Washington, D.C. starts with understanding the purpose of the meeting, but more importantly, the people in the room. Who are the participants? Do they work together every day, collaborate remotely, or meet only a few times a year? What do they need most right now to work better as a team? Once we understand the group and their current relationships, Venture Up designs a program that supports the goals of the meeting and fits the realities of a fast-paced schedule.
Every Venture Up program in Washington, D.C. follows one guiding principle: generate enthusiasm from the very start. We open with fast, interactive, and engaging challenges that immediately shift the energy in the room. Teams begin working together right away, momentum builds naturally, and the experience flows. When people are engaged early, meaningful collaboration follows, even within a short time frame.
Whether your team is based in Washington, D.C. or traveling in from around the world, Venture Up has a proven track record working with diverse cultures and professional levels. Our facilitators are experienced guiding groups with different perspectives, roles, and expectations. We believe strong relationships are at the core of every successful meeting, regardless of industry or mission.
Even when time is limited to just a few hours, the team experiences we deliver consistently exceed expectations. Many of our Washington, D.C. clients tell us the same thing after their event: it was the most engaging and effective meeting they’ve had. When teams connect quickly and authentically, the impact lasts well beyond the session itself.
