The challenge is on!

By Laura Bohnert

Are you ready for a challenge in your workplace?  Corporate Challenge is back.  If you think your workplace team has what it takes, head over to the Allan & Jean Millar Centre on Friday October 28, from 1pm to 4pm.  You have nothing to lose but your bragging rights.

The Corporate Challenge is an event that is designed to create a little competition between workplaces.  Any corporation, business, organization, library, or school group can put together a team of between 4 and 8 members to participate.

This year’s Challenge will consist of minute to win it games, Courtney Milford, Arts and Culture Coordinator for the Allan & Jean Millar Centre, and Emma Harper, Recreation Coordinator for the Allan & Jean Millar Centre, explain.

“There will be four to five different challenges,” Milford explains.  “These include Junk in the Trunk, where we tie a tissue box filled with items to your waist and you have to wiggle your ‘trunk’ to get them out; the Oreo Face Challenge, where you have to use only your face muscles to get an Oreo cookie from your forehead to your mouth; the Dress Up Relay, where you put on slippers, masks, housecoats, while running from one side to the next; the Bottle Waddle, where you have to straddle a water bottle with a pen tied to your waist to get the pen into the bottle; and the Pantyhose Challenge, where you can only use one hand to get to the penny in the bottom of a pair of a knee-high.”

The event will feature great prizes and snacks—not to mention the glory of winning…or the shame of defeat.  Cheerleaders are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Registration costs are $50 per team, and each team must consist of between a minimum of 4 members and a maximum of 8 members.  Teams need to register one week in advance, by the 21^st of October.  Registration can be completed by contacting Guest Services at the Allan & Jean Millar Centre.

“We wanted to get corporations out doing something and engaging with each other in the Allan & Jean Millar centre,” Milford adds, “and team building is beneficial to the community and the workplace.  Plus it is beneficial to the facility to encourage people to come out and see what we offer.”

“We try to run the Corporate Challenge at least once a year,” explains Milford, “and we try to run it in both the fall and spring.  Last year’s event featured a dodgeball scavenger hunt, and we are thinking about maybe a triathlon for this coming spring.”

“Corporate Challenge provides a different way to get people active and interacting with one another in the community, and within the facility,” Milford explains as she describes the importance of the event to the community.  “We’re excited for it.  I think it will be very fun, and I hope others in the community are excited about it, too.”

If you think you and your coworkers have what it takes, make sure you don’t miss your chance to prove it at this fall’s Corporate Challenge.