Google Ads Team Building
A Google Ads Team Building event at 200 Bayview in Mountain View, was an amazing success with 50 people and 8 teams building and battling robots!
The venue was located next to the NASA Ames Research Center, down the road from Shoreline Amphitheatre, and nearby to the Google Plex. Its appearance, pictured above, is highly unique, looking part space ship, part circus tent, and part futuristic building. “The roof of the buildings is lined with specially-designed solar panels angled to maximize rainwater collection and light going into the building, executives said.”
The theme of the building is flexibility to adapt to work environments 20 to 50 years in the future:
“As we started with a blank canvas, we had to ask ourselves another set of questions and that was simply ‘what will work look like in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years, 100 years?‘” said Google’s VP of Workplace and Real Estate David Radcliffe. “And I’ll be honest, the conclusion we came to was ‘we have no idea.’ But what we did know was it meant we had to be extra, extra focused on flexibility. This building had to be able to transform itself over its lifetime in order to respond to the demands being put on by the business.”
The entire building is for Google Advertising, and as expected our client was a Google Advertising team. The winning build team, pictured above, finished just outside the top 20, with a build time of 57:20 (Fifty seven minutes and 20 seconds), about 3 minutes faster than the average build team. Factor in each team had only 6 people, versus the seven to ten people we recommend, and you have pretty awesome build time!
All of the robots were built with high build quality, so the battles were extremely vigorous and included all 7 teams for almost every battle. We had many high scoring rounds with teams winning rounds with point totals exceeding double digits, which means multiple flips and balloon pops within the two minutes!
We finished with an exciting “last-bot-standing” finale which came down to a duel between two final robots. The winner won in dramatic fashion, flipping the other bot out of the arena!
A huge thank you to Google Advertising for inviting us out to your highly unique venue, and for an amazing time with your folks!
