Self-Hosted Campus Goose Chase
Teams race around campus, re-enacting historic moments at familiar landmarks and capturing campus life through creative photo and video challenges. This self-hosted campus scavenger hunt turns freshman orientation, a department outing, or any campus event into a shared adventure.
What Is Self-Hosted Campus Goose Chase
Self-Hosted Campus Goose Chase turns any campus into an interactive playground, sending teams out to complete photo and video challenges at familiar landmarks and hidden corners of campus. It’s a DIY college orientation activity with everything included: challenge content, a facilitation guide, and browser app access, ready to run for orientation week, a department outing, or any campus event. As a self-guided student team building activity, students build peer connections while getting to know campus outside the classroom.
Why Teams Love Self Guided Student Team Building
- More than just a scavenger hunt. Challenges send teams to real campus landmarks and everyday spots, and just as often push them to meet new people, from tracking down a lookalike to challenging a stranger to an arm-wrestling match.
- No orientation-planning expertise required. Whoever’s running the event just follows the included guide, no professional facilitator needed for this self-hosted campus scavenger hunt.
- Ready for orientation week or any time after. This DIY college orientation activity works just as well for welcome week as it does for a mid-semester department outing.
- Scales from one class to the whole student body. From a group of 10 to 5,000+, this self-guided student team building activity works at any size.
Whether you’re organizing a frosh week activity or looking for an innovative way to engage students and staff, this experience is sure to leave everyone buzzing with excitement.
Running Your Self-Hosted Campus Goose Chase
Participate or Observe
With Self-Hosted events, you have the flexibility to actively participate with your group or simply observe the fun as the organizer. Whether you’re jumping in on the challenges or overseeing the event, the choice is yours.
Flexible Timing for Your Event
You’ll have access to your activity for the entire day, giving you the freedom to choose your start and end times. This flexibility ensures your event fits perfectly into everyone’s schedule.
Test Your Event With a Demo
You will receive access to a demo on our app beforehand to ensure you’re well-prepared for running your event. You will also be given all other resources such as challenge lists
We Are Here to Help
Running your own event can sometimes be daunting, we are here at every stage to answer any questions and ensure that you have a successful event!
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Tell us your group size and format, and we'll send custom pricing for Self-Hosted Campus Goose Chase within one business day, no obligation.
What's Included With Your Self-Hosted Campus Goose Chase
Included
Planning support and event guidance
An event facilitation guide to run your event
Easy access to our easy-to-use-browser app
Required From You
An in-person, outdoor event venue
Cell phones, tablets, or laptops per team with WiFi connectivity
One event facilitator per team to lead your activity
Frequently Asked Questions
Our self-hosted team building activities are designed so your own team can facilitate the experience without an Outback host. After booking, you’ll receive everything you need to run the event, including facilitator instructions, digital materials, and access to our Webapp. Your designated facilitator simply gets everyone started, then can join in and participate alongside the rest of the team while the activity guides everyone through the experience.
The best self-hosted team building activity depends on your team size, goals, and the experience you’re looking to create. Whether you’re looking to bring your team together, strengthen collaboration, improve communication, or simply have fun together, we’ll help you find the right fit. Not sure where to start? Contact our team for a personalized recommendation.
Pricing for self-hosted corporate team building events depends on your group size. For example, a group of 30 typically starts at approximately $25 per person, with lower per-person rates available for larger groups. A minimum event investment applies to smaller groups. If you have a specific budget in mind, let us know and we’ll point you toward the best self-hosted option for your group.
We recommend approximately 1.5 hours for most activities. For outdoor scavenger hunt style activities, we recommend 2-2.5 hours. Please note that the introduction and conclusion/closing of the event typically take about 15 minutes each, so please ensure to plan that into your activity time.
EG. 1.5 Hour Activity
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15 minutes for introduction
- 1 hour playing time
- 15 minutes for wrap-up/conclusion/announce winners
You’ll receive access to our web-based app, clear facilitator instructions, planning support, and a demo before your event. If you have questions before your event, our team is available to help. After your event, you’ll also receive access to your event media, including participant photos and videos captured during the experience, where available.
Our self-hosted team building activities are scalable for groups of all sizes. Whether you’re planning for a small team or hundreds of participants, we’ll recommend the best activity based on your group size and objectives.
No professional facilitator is required. One person from your team acts as the event organizer, using our facilitation guide and demo access to run the activity. Outback provides planning support for your event.
In-person and virtual events include a live Outback facilitator running the activity in real time. Self-hosted events give your team the same activity content and app access, but your own designated organizer leads it making it more budget-friendly and schedule-flexible for remote, or in-office groups.
Self-Hosted Campus Goose Chase Photos
What Our Clients Are Saying
A fantastic way for our teachers to begin the school year as one cohesive group!
The entire day was perfectly executed by the team that facilitated the events. All our staff were able to show their strengths in completing the tasks which were challenging but very obtainable. It was a fantastic end to our summer and an even more fantastic way for our teachers to begin the school year as one cohesive group!
Rippleton Roadsters Child Care
The app was so easy to use and the instructions were easy to follow
The activity was perfect for our Central Office Kick Off. There were plenty of options to choose from that were appropriate for our group. Overall, a great team building activity! We also appreciated that it helps build good will and had people focus on doing good in a fun way. The app was so easy to use and the instructions were easy to follow.
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Schools
Everyone present had very positive things to say
I would absolutely recommend the program to anyone, a 10+. All the teachers present had very positive things to say about how well-organized the day was, how positive your staff was, and how much fun the students had.
Summit Middle
Highly successful in helping us reach our goals
The event was highly successful in helping us reach our goals for team building at the University of Houston. The Outback team continued to check on us right up until the day of our event to make sure that we were ready. 10/10!
University of Houston
Our student leaders thoroughly enjoyed the team building exercise!
The process of securing the Campus Goose Chase activity for our event was very well detailed, and the activity was super easy to order!
The support staff sent emails to make sure we had everything we needed.
Our Student Leaders thoroughly enjoyed the team building exercise!
University of New Mexico
Everyone in our department loved doing the activity
Everyone had a great time competing on our campus! Everyone in our department loved doing the activity, and the lightly competitive aspect of using the app. It was also fun to keep track of what the other teams were doing as well.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Lots of fun and self directed. Easy to use with not alot of upfront time needed...
Lots of fun and self directed. Easy to use with not alot of upfront time needed to plan the event. Good response and easy to follow email communication.
University of Tennessee Central Region Extension
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