CHALLENGES

#1: Welcome to The Queen City! Early settlers of this city were rebellious toward King George III but named their town in honor of his queen consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, in hopes of gaining royal favor. Somewhere here in Uptown stands a life-size bronze statue of the Queen walking with her dogs. Find it and take a fun team picture with the statue reacting wildly as if you’ve just met your longtime royal icon.

#2: To honor the way Albemarle’s diverse global workforce all come together to build a resilient world where people and planet thrive in the future, find a location where an American flag is flying within 100 feet or so of any other country’s flag. Once there, take a well timed picture of your team members all jumping in the air at the same time and high fiving each other while the two flags are visible in the background.

#3: Located somewhere here in Uptown, find the sculpture that locals affectionately call the “Disco Chicken”. Once you’ve found it, take a fun video of your team all acting like chickens that are disco dancing around the base of the beloved artwork.

#4: Albemarle’s range of SAYTEX® fire safety solutions prevent and slow the spread of fires in a variety of materials allowing for more escape time and more time for first responders in the event of a fire. To honor Albemarle’s commitment to developing life saving products, take a video of your team completing "Stop, Drop, and Roll" while any regulation/operable fire extinguisher is visible in the background. Be sure to yell each step of the fire safety technique as you all do it together and make sure the fire extinguisher is clearly visible at some point in your video.

#5: With an average daily temperature of more than 90 degrees, there aren’t many things hotter than July in Charlotte. Well, except maybe this challenge. Anywhere around the area, take a video of your team members all at the same time consuming separate spoonfuls of any brand of hot sauce (the hotter the better). Make sure to show the bottle or packet of hot sauce in the video so it can be confirmed that it's actually hot sauce you're consuming. Disclaimer, this will likely not be pleasant, which is exactly the point. Because a team that suffers together, grows together.

#6: A few days ago was National Letter To An Elder Day. Find a postcard that features this area in some way, or a fun greeting card, and purchase it. Then click HERE to go to the Love For Our Elders project, which is focused on fighting loneliness with love, one letter at a time. As a team, choose someone from their list whose story or background resonates with you. Then on your card include a fun or uplifting message and sign it. Stamp your card and take a picture with it to show you've completed your Act Of Kindness and then drop it in the mail along the way or after your event ends.

#7: Being a part of the Albemarle legal team requires intense focus. So this challenge will test just how focused you are! Click HERE to get to the brain puzzles and then select “Memory”. Then, anywhere along the way have at least two team members achieve a score of 50 or more points. Once you have your two super focused teammates, take a celebratory picture of them while they’re displaying their phone screens and the point totals are clearly visible. You can submit an additional close-up picture of the two devices to clearly show the point totals if necessary.

#8: Last week was National Respect For Veterans Day. Anywhere around the area find an active military person or a veteran. They could be wearing some form of military or veteran attire, have a military ID, or they could simply describe their military background while you’re completing your challenge. Then take a video of them watching your entire team doing 10 push-ups, sit-ups, or jumping jacks to honor their strength and courage. After you’ve finished recording, spend a few minutes learning more about their time in the service as a small gesture of appreciation.

#9: Anywhere around the area find one of the checkered flag crosswalks, like the one shown HERE. Once you’ve found one, take a fun team picture with your team all stretched out across the crosswalk, pretending that you’re all in the final lap of a race and it is going to be a dramatic photo finish!

#10: March is Women’s History Month. Clara Barton was one of the first women to work for the federal government and founded the American Red Cross. To honor her efforts on the battlefield as a nurse and the legacy she created with this impactful organization, find any Red Cross emblem around the area. Once you’ve found one, designate one of your teammates as an “injured soldier”. Then take a picture demonstrating the “correct way to carry an injured soldier”, as referenced in the picture found HERE by soldiers from the 1800’s. If you have a lot of people on your team you can divide up and carry multiple “victims” if you want. Or if you have a small team you can recruit strangers to help out if needed. Make sure the Red Cross emblem is visible somewhere in your picture and then gently lower your victim back down after you’re finished, just like Clara would have done.

#11: Advancing sustainability is a key pillar in the Albemarle corporate strategy. This includes a core focus on recycling, and hitting sustainability targets such as achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. To honor Albemarle’s commitment to the environment, anywhere around the area find a canister of some sort that has the triangular recycling symbol on it. You are looking for an actual recycling disposal can, where someone would get rid of recyclable materials, and not just any product that has the recycling symbol on it such as a plastic bottle. Once you’ve found one, take a picture of your entire team all completing any variation of the "Tree Pose" while the canister with the recycling symbol on it is clearly visible in the background. To view a picture of someone properly performing a variation of the Tree Pose click HERE.

#12: Get to any clothing or apparel store and find two different items with enough in stock that every team member can be wearing the same two items in their own sizes. Then take a fun team picture with everyone wearing those items. For example it may be a wacky shirt, and a pair of shorts. Or maybe some cozy slippers and a large sun hat. As long as everyone is wearing the same exact two items but in their own sizes.

#13: Even though we believe this city is the best Charlotte, there are lots of other places called Charlotte around the country (and the world) that might think otherwise. Find the collection of directional signs here in Uptown that point to a variety of different Charlottes (see an artist’s drawing of them HERE). Once you’ve found them, take a memorable picture with each team member pointing in the direction of their hometown, using the arrows to help you figure out where that would be.

#14: Take a video of your team successfully completing the Whipped Cream Catapult Challenge. Divide your team into pairs. Have one person from the pair squirt a small lump of whipped cream onto the back of their hand. That person should launch the whipped cream to their partner using the “catapult” technique seen in the video HERE. The second person should successfully catch the whipped cream in their mouth, or at least catch some of it in their mouth and the rest on their face. To complete this challenge at least half your team should make a successful catch in the video.

#15: Over the years, we’ve found that the teams that bond the most are the ones that do something meaningful or impactful together. So here is your chance. March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which is the 2nd deadliest cancer in the US. To honor those, and their families, who are impacted by CRC, take a proud team picture flashing your hands once every member of your team has gotten their fingernails painted dark blue (the international color for colorectal cancer awareness) using real nail polish. For every team that completes this challenge successfully our company (Team Building Anywhere) will be donating $25 to the charity called Fight Colorectal Cancer. Read more about this great organization and ways to prevent CRC by clicking HERE.