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Description

A group of 8 to 12 young people use their ingenuity to decontaminate the bomb and retrieve it from an exclusion zone

Resources

4 chairs or posts with rope or tape 2 ft off the ground to make an exclusion zone 12 foot square
A container like a cup or a tin placed in the centre of the exclusion zone
Scissors, string, tape, paper, straws, pegs, sponge, cups, spoons, rope and any other stationary to hand.

Instructions

4 chairs or posts with rope or tape 2 ft off the ground to make an exclusion zone 12 foot square
A container like a cup or a tin placed in the centre of the exclusion zone
Scissors, string, tape, paper, straws, pegs, sponge, cups, spoons, rope and any other stationary to hand.
The cup in the centre of the exclusion zone is a bomb and the team must devise a way to first decontaminate it and then remove it before it detonates in 15 minutes.
To decontaminate the bomb some water must be dropped into the container. A single drop is enough.
However, the bomb is radioactive and has some sophisticated trigger devices.
If any part of any person touches the exclusion zone rope or chairs, or crosses the exclusion zone rope, one of your team will receive a fatal dose of radiation and not survive. If anybody touches floor inside the exclusion zone the bomb will detonate. If any drops of water or equipment touches the floor inside the exclusion zone one of your team will be lost in the decontamination process.
Having decontaminated the bomb it must then be removed, still without triggering it or receiving a dose of radiation. The bomb must not fall over or be dragged across the floor and must pass over the exclusion zone rope.

Start the timer immediately and leave them to solve the problem using any means to hand. Leaders to quietly observe and record how many of the team receive fatal doses and if the bomb detonates. The whole team should be allowed to continue with the task and leaders can give tips if necessary. This has a 50% success rate.

Key learning points to discuss after the challenge are:
Did someone take control?
Did anybody listen to anybody else?
Was there a division of labour - one team doing the water, another doing the retrieval?
Did the number of mistakes increase as the time ran out?

Tags

• communication
• leadership
• Problem solving
• Team challenge

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