Star Refrigeration
Virtual 50th Anniversary Event
Project Overview
Find out how we helped Star Refrigeration with a virtual solution to get their team together for their annual get-together during COVID restrictions.
Star Refrigeration had their big 50th Anniversary celebration coming up. But there was one issue – we were in the height of COVID restrictions and there was no way to bring the team physically together.
Read on to find out how our team at Maximillion helped Star Refrigeration put on a virtual celebration that left everyone uplifted and proud to have been part of marking their 50th Anniversary together.
The Challenge
Star Refrigeration wanted to bring the team together for their 50th Anniversary – but COVID was getting in the way!
Star Refrigeration would normally get together for one large company-wide event and each site would organise their own team-building sessions.
However, with restrictions in place, they approached us to explore how they could bring everyone together virtually and create an engaging itinerary for a broad range of staff, while also celebrating a very important milestone of 50 years of innovation, and keeping their sites operational throughout.
Our Solution
Our Star Refrigeration Virtual 50th Anniversary Experience was a fast-paced and fun event, complete with engaging virtual team building activities to bring the team together.
The key to delivering on the client’s outcomes was the pre-event engagement and communication which resulted in an itinerary that would engage their staff over three identical events over two days. This included an element of bespoke content in the game and a personalised design.
We aimed to maintain energy levels through the virtual experience, leaving everyone uplifted and proud to have been part of marking their 50th Anniversary together.
Top Trumps
The event began ahead of time, ensuring everyone had all the information and tech support they needed in advance of the event to join Zoom and download our app. Then it was into the fun!
On the day, everyone was welcomed by our event host with music and an ice-breaking warm-up with our energising and fun Team Top Trumps activity. A modern twist on the classic card game that got teams talking, breaking down barriers and helped them find out something new and surprising about their colleagues.
Each team became a deck of Top Trumps cards and as such must put forward their best “card” in each category in order to trump the other teams! For example the “Who has had the most embarrassing Zoom moment?” round raised a few eyebrows and had us all in stiches with some great stories – what happens on zoom stays on zoom – we’re remaining tight-lipped!
Bespoke Game
Once everyone was suitably into the swing of this fast-paced Zoom activity, we commenced our short briefing on the App-based bespoke challenge game.
The aim of the game was simple … Score as many points as possible before you run out of time! Working in zoom breakout teams, the teams worked around the bespoke refrigeration-themed game board on their smart phones, unlocking and completing a series of trivia, photo and video challenges in exchange for points.
A wealth of bespoke Star-related content was built in, including their Directors baby photo challenge, Star Values, Star through the 5 decades and the cake entry voting competition to crown the winner of best bakers!
Photo Reel
We then brought everyone back to the main room to have a good laugh at their highlight photos with plenty of heckling and banter from rival teams, before we announced the winners.
After the three events were complete we complied an overall leaderboard and collated the results of the cake voting, and shared all the photos and videos with the client, so Star had a wealth of content for their 50th Anniversary newsletter with plenty of memories and a positive shared-experience providing a great morale boost to the team as 2020 continued to throw challenges at us all.
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