Summer team building in Los Angeles for intern classes: interns and mentors build robots, earn upgrades and battle in a hosted arena for medals.
Summer intern classes in Los Angeles arrive with energy and leave with a few new contacts, but often only within their own team. This robot rally widens that circle. A crew based in California brings robot kits, a portable arena and every challenge prop to your office, campus or event space, then runs 90 to 120 minutes of summer team building where interns, mentors and managers share the same goal.
Mixing interns with mentors
The host runs an icebreaker that forms teams of 6 to 8, and the program coordinator can seed each team with a mix of interns and full time staff.
Summer team building in Los Angeles for intern classes: interns and mentors build robots, earn upgrades and battle in a hosted arena for medals.
Summer intern classes in Los Angeles arrive with energy and leave with a few new contacts, but often only within their own team. This robot rally widens that circle. A crew based in California brings robot kits, a portable arena and every challenge prop to your office, campus or event space, then runs 90 to 120 minutes of summer team building where interns, mentors and managers share the same goal.
Mixing interns with mentors
The host runs an icebreaker that forms teams of 6 to 8, and the program coordinator can seed each team with a mix of interns and full time staff. For larger classes of 80 or more, a wristband system makes that mixing quick. Interns quickly discover that a senior engineer is just as baffled by Mine Sweep as they are, and that shared confusion breaks the ice better than any name game.
How the rally runs
- Icebreaker and team formation
- Build crew assembles, programs and names the robot
- Challenge crew wins upgrades in classic team challenges
- Upgrades get attached and the arena opens
- Referees run Cyborg Soccer, Future Joust and Capture the Flag
- Mechanized Melee decides who takes home the medals
A summer highlight interns remember
Interns get plenty of presentations. What they remember is the moment their team's bot won a joust or survived the final melee. Those stories show up in exit surveys and return offer conversations, and they give a company's intern program a reputation for being genuinely fun. It is fun team bonding that also exposes interns to how cross functional teams actually work.
Venues across the Southland
Office floors, campus courtyards, hotel ballrooms, studio lots and lawns all work, indoor or outdoor. The crew needs a flat clear area for the arena and tables for each team, and it handles setup and teardown. One host leads, one facilitator joins for every 20 to 30 guests, and the listing covers 15 to 1,000 guests.
Team building for work, minus the pressure
Interns can be nervous about saying the wrong thing in front of managers. The rally removes that pressure. Roles are clear, nobody needs technical experience, and the activity level is low. Shy interns often thrive on the build crew, while outgoing ones run the challenge crew, so everyone contributes to the score.
Fun team bonding ideas for the whole summer
Some intern programs use the rally as the kickoff in June, others as the closing celebration in August. A few do both and compare results. Paired with a lunch or an end of summer showcase, it slots neatly into a calendar of team building day ideas and team bonding activities for work that coordinators plan each year.
Planning for team building summer dates
Summer dates fill eight to twelve weeks ahead, so early planning helps. Challenge stations can be tailored to communication or leadership development themes, which fits intern programs focused on career growth. Educational groups and nonprofit internship programs can ask about discounts.
Notes for program coordinators
Intern coordinators juggle housing, schedules, project assignments and a long list of events. The rally removes one item from that list, because the crew brings every kit, prop and medal and handles setup and teardown. Coordinators only need to share the class size, the date and the venue. Mentors who join get a low pressure way to meet interns outside their own team, and managers often say it is the event where they learned the most about how the class works together.
Reserving a date
Pricing is transparent on this listing, and every request is confirmed directly by the provider, which has refined its programs across thousands of teams since 2011. Check availability for your Los Angeles date and share the class size and venue. The traveling crew arrives with everything needed and leaves the space clear.
