Have you ever/ or will face the problem of breaking the ice in a team of people who don’t know its other?

Have you ever/ or will face the problem of breaking the ice in a team of people who don’t know its other?

• Have you ever/ or will face the problem of breaking the ice in a team of people who don’t know its other?

• Have you seen “Borat” or “Bruno”?

• Do you have a favorite ice-breaking game?

• Have you seen “Eyes wide shut” (Kubrick)???

Eestec: Electrical Engineering Student’s European assoCiation

• Eestec: Electrical Engineering Student’s European assoCiation

• ways to make engineers social aware and orient their research with greater needs and good

• Workshop: “bio-improve your life” implementation of technology for people with special needs

• 30 participants (+local students)

• 13 promoters

• 7 days  tight schedule  no time to spend on icebreaking

Quick and

• Quick and

• effective

• Funny

• and effective…

welcome event 

• welcome event 

• icebreaking welcome party

Photos…

• Photos…

Everyone remembered each other

• Everyone remembered each other

• maybe not as Andres but as Kung-Fu Panda…

• The were randomly changing groups rather than creating 2-3 fixed sub-groups

• The less social participants, where approached by the other member with the “excuse” of first nights happening…

Easy first-line : ) “you are a great (pause)… What RU?”

• Easy first-line : ) “you are a great (pause)… What RU?”

• Feel-free to express (it is not you that is “getting embarrassed” but your role) a big hug from a fluffy bear is always acceptable

• more emphasized differs

• the hippo-giraffe is clearer than Tom-Thomas

• Chances for personal 1-1 moments

• the moments of preparation for example

“Discrimination” of no/bad costumes

• “Discrimination” of no/bad costumes

• Costume as a “protection wall” –hide behind the “persona”

• Keeping the “role” after the end of the party

Easy- wide costume theme

• Easy- wide costume theme

• Have some accessories/body or face paints for the not-prepared

• Ask them to choose wisely costume: Role=Name/Characteristic

• Modify the ice-breakers

10Q : )

• 10Q : )

Question: Why we choose this theme?

• Question: Why we choose this theme?