Socials

Importance

This is a lesson Sahil learned over summer 2021 (S21) - the team needs to feel like a team, and the best way to do so is to create opportunities for people to hangout, vibe, and relax. See Keep WARG Engaging! for further lessons learned in F23. All are welcome to add any ideas!

Strategies

See also Social Events for ideas.

Here’s some of the things we tried that improved the team bonding of WARG:

• Dedicated Socials (2 hours and above)

  • Games

    • Board games (Board game night)

    • Poker

    • Karaoke

    • Escape Room

    • Skribblio, Jackbox, other online party games

  • Holiday parties

    • Gingerbread houses

    • Halloween

      • Pumpkin Carving

  • Cooking

    • Baking Cookies

    • Cook night (somehow)

    • DIY Pizza

    • Cookie/ Cupcake decorating

  • Outdoor

    • Trail/hike

    • Camping Trip

    • Paintball

    • Beach Day

• Post-meeting or post work session outing (less than 2 hours)

  • Food

    • Ice cream

    • Bubble tea

    • Dinner

  • Sports

    • Climbing

    • Volleyball

    • Spikeball

• hvz (we can borrow nerf guns from somewhere. We can buy really cheap foam darts off aliexpress or smth).

• manhunt (find a building, restrict where u can be, run for however many minutes (15?) depends on ppl ig?) or if want to be ... easier...hide n seek(?) with a time limit and we can ping @ event or smth

• Make a big slip n slide on some slightly angled bridge between let's say EIT and DC or smth? (Or the e5 bridge?)

• WARG build a rube goldberg machine

• WARG Hackathon (warg leetcode quest?)

  • this is literally every work session

• WARG Makes bath bombs (Don't know how hard this is but it's a social event we did @ carleton once)

• "how hot can your hotsauce be before you are absolutely lost in the sauce™️" (also something we did @ carleton. Bought a bunch of varying degrees of hot sauce and put them on chicken wings or smth. Winner got all the hotsauce + some grungy polaroid photo. We did this @ 3am because when else would it be a reasonable time).

• build very tall paper/straw tower, see which one can support the most weight or smth. Also which one's the prettiest (We did this in grade 9 and it was kinda fun but idk if it would still be fun). Bonus points if you use materials for artistic effect. We were just trying to see how many hockey pucks could be supported by some towers. Limited build resources

• WARG flies tinywhoops event? // tinywhoop race

  • tiny whoop tag?

• WARG Milkchug (this is dangerous we shouldn't do it but the comedic value is so high)

• WARG lettuceclub?

• WARG "build a trebuchet and fling snowballs" social? We used to do smth each year where we build trebuchets and have flour wars but we can do giant snowball trebuchet or smth? Less cleanup and maybe outside or smth