School & University Programs
Action-Packed Adventures That Engage, Excite, and Empower Students
How about amping up the excitement of your next school excursion or orientation day with a unique and engaging activity that has real-world, personal and professional developmental outcomes?
Whether it’s getting acquainted with the city, learning to work with your fellow classmates or exploring the real value of solid teamwork, our Great Race School and University events are a brilliant way to meet your objectives!
The Amazing Race and Survivor games are incredible fun for all students allowing them to work together as a team towards a common goal. Our professional hosts bring maximum fun for an unforgettable experience that, whilst hard to believe, students actually really love and get into! Seriously, we love how much students love these events.
Fun is definitely the name of the game but rest assured, our events have real team-building outcomes. Your students will need to come together, negotiate, plan, strategise, problem solve, and be pushed outside of their comfort zones to complete the game.
Though this style of team-building event has traditionally been the domain of big companies, used as an investment in the professional development of their teams, we are noticing a marked increase in the application of these games for students. It’s an exceptional way to develop their personal and teamwork skills as they gear towards the workforce.
Plus it’s really fun, so they’re much more likely to apply themselves wholeheartedly!
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All School & University Events
For Universities
We have designed induction events for the biggest universities across Australia, on campus and around their respective cities – regional too! We have welcomed international university groups and helped introduce them to the Aussie lifestyle all the while getting acquainted with their new cities.
But learning outcomes and orientation aside, these games are about people meeting people. Having fun with a new group helps to create and solidify friendships, it also helps to facilitate communication where it might otherwise be a little difficult or intimidating. Finally, and this is a big one – it socialises people without the use of alcohol!
For Schools
We have worked with hundreds of schools adapting learning objectives, core curriculum lessons, team-building outcomes, and more into our Amazing Race and Survivor events! We also work with dozens of schools annually to run celebrations for their year 12 students as an alternative to “Muck Up Day.” All our hosts hold the relevant Working With Children certification for their respective states. The majority have extensive experience engaging with and entertaining students and young people specifically through Theatre in Education.
We design all of our school games to include challenges suitable to the age of the student group. That way, we can ensure the game is pitched correctly for the relevant age and capabilities of the group, as well as to guarantee all students have a fantastic time. Our games are challenging yet achievable. Every single team ‘complete’ the game, and our fun-loving hosts are always on hand to help get every team across the line. Invariably, our school groups have fantastic fun and are tremendously rewarded through the shared achievement of conquering each activity together – game on!
What’s The Point?
It’s more than just a day of fun — it’s about building real skills, real connections, and real confidence.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Each challenge is an opportunity to think creatively, work under pressure, and find solutions as a team.
Better Communication
Success depends on listening, collaborating, and speaking up — skills that translate directly to academic and personal growth.
Leadership & Confidence
Students can step up, take charge, and realise what they’re capable of in a supportive, fun environment.
The Benefits of Our Team Building Activities
Our team building games are so successful thanks in no small part to the subtle underpinning of fun we incorporate into each and every offering – it’s about having a good bloody time! Often the subtle benefits of our team-building activities are implicit and inherently part of the challenges we create, it’s entirely up to you how the message comes across.
100% Engagement and Energy
We smash our events with our own skillful energy and excitement with the goal of engagement from all participants. The events are active, exciting, and hands-on — perfect for groups of all energy levels.
Longevity = Experience
With over 15 years of experience working with groups just like yours, we reckon we’re pretty good at this stuff… even, if we do say so ourselves. We just keep getting better.
A Tonne of Fun!
It’s fun, it’s educational and it’s unifying – mostly fun though
Why brands, teams, friends, and family can’t get enough of Great Race!
Just wanted to personally thank you for the session you and your team provided at the U@UNSW conference. It really met all our boxes and aligned with my debrief. Its especially refreshing to partner with an organisation who just get it without the need for micro-management. So… THANK YOU. I look forward to working with you guys again in the future.
Patricia G. | UNSW
Overall it was a perfect team day and all members of my team certainly enjoyed being out of the office and making their way around the city! Discovering new spots that they had not encountered previously, i.e. a couple of landmark around The Rocks. On behalf of everyone in the team, I would like to say Thank You very much for facilitating such a great day out for us… Cheers!
Anton S. | MLC
Our group absolutely enjoyed every part of the race. We experienced so much laughter, joy, banter and competitiveness. The fact that all of the challenges involved everyone, made it enjoyable. Our host Sam was THE BEST!!! She made the race exciting and made us all laugh especially at prize giving!! It’s been three days since the race and everyone’s still talking about it and are already talking about a rematch.
Jessica Alofa
Our team had an absolute blast participating in the Amazing Race! It was the perfect mix of fun, friendly competition, and teamwork. We saw everyone’s competitive side come out, shared plenty of laughs, and built connections in new ways. The challenges were engaging and kept us on our toes, making for an unforgettable experience.
Anita-Kruno Velican
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