Space Rescue

It’s an learning-focused, intense online team building activity for work teams.  It is equally suitable for virtual, hybrid and co-located groups.

The main action itself lasts exactly 2 hours.  In addition, teams will benefit from a half hour preparation time.  We also recommend a 90 minute debrief (using the built-in debriefing process) if you want to get maximum learning from the time spent.

However, the preparation and debriefing times do not need to be on the same day as the main action.  Many groups choose to allow teams to organize their own preparation time before the event and hold the debriefing session one or more days after the event.

As many – or few – as you like!

We’ve had many teams of only 3 people and well in excess of a thousand.  There’s no such thing as a typical Space Rescue group size!

We recommend 6 to 8 people in a team, but up to 10 is fine.  If your group is larger than that, they'll be organized into multiple teams.

You can be assured, that however large or small your group is, Space Rescue will handle it.

Your choice.

Most clients run with between 5 and 10 people in a team.  That’s a nice range.  Small enough that every team member is important.  Large enough that there’s likely a nice variety of people within each team.

But if you want fewer or more in a team, that’s ok too.

It can indeed.  Typically the extra cost of this makes this financially justifiable for group sizes of 50 or more people, but any group size can run within a tailored scene!

Tailoring can include:

• Naming the spacecraft for the organization.
• Adding people known to the group (usually senior people!) to the people on board.
• Adding extra challenges to the standard ones, themed for your group or learning focus.
• Augmenting or replacing the built-in debriefing process with one tailored to your desired outcomes and preferred methods.

The best way to get a feel for that is to watch the video near the top of the page.

No.

Your participants will need access to the Internet and a browser.  That’s all.

Each team will need one computing device (see below) per location and ideally a printer too in each location.

If a team is co-located, therefore, it will need just the one computer (though it can have more than one) and one printer.  If a team is fully remote, each teama member will need a computer and (ideally) a printer.

Space Rescue is best run with plenty of screen space.  So a laptop or desktop is recommended.  But it does work fine on tablets and even smartphones.

No.  Different teams can run at different times and still they are all part of the same event.  You can spread your event over hours, days, weeks or even months.  This allows your teams to run at times that are suitable for them.

There is a leaderboard, available to all throughout, that encourages a healthy spirit of competetion between the teams.  But later starting teams do not get to see the already finished team scores until they themselves have finished.  So there’s no advantage for later starting teams.

Most people based in China can access our sites without a problem.  That said, some Chinese ISPs do block dynamic updates from Western sites.  China-based participants to date have never had any problems if using their corporate VPN to access our services.

We have a test page that people can use to ensure they can receive our dynamic updates.

Well, we need them to have some Internet access for sure.

Part of our recommended process is for all participants to check their browser and connection is suitable via a check page.  This page preloads all the elements, making the start quick and smooth for everyone.

Once they are underway, the bandwidth requirement is minimal.  It even handles temporary loss of connectivity – probably without the person realizing they have lost connection!

Book a demonstration.  You can take us up on our offer of a personal demonstration.