
Growth Mode Marketing
Adventure Challenge
This adventure challenge is designed to bring your Growth Mode squad closer together and get you to explore the surrounding area while staying safe and healthy. Please follow the current CDC guidelines and your local authorities for the best ways to protect yourselves and those in your community.
Here Are The Rules
Read each challenge carefully and click on any provided links to view helpful pictures, videos, and requirements for each challenge.
Complete as many challenges as you can in the given time frame. Challenges can be completed in any order. Challenges are often designed to bring you together through fun, difficult, or embarrassing experiences, so complete whatever challenges you and your group are comfortable with. Just be sure to create some unforgettable moments and content that your group will cherish forever!
Some challenges may require a few basic supplies to complete them. Figuring out how to obtain these supplies somewhere in the area is part of the strategy so work together and use what you’ve got to get what you need.
Team members need to stay together throughout the adventure, however, if you are all at the same location and searching for an item you can spread out until it is found and then regroup to take the necessary picture/video.
Capture as many team members in your picture or video as possible. When out in the community, teams often ask a kind stranger to take their picture or video so that the entire team can get on film. If it's necessary to have someone on your own team film certain challenges be sure to rotate who that person is so that everyone is actively involved in completing challenges throughout the adventure.
#1: Get your team anywhere onto the iconic Stillwater lift bridge, which uses concrete block counterweights that travel up and down within the tower to raise a large span of the bridge. Once there, work together as a team to lift any stranger to the shoulder level of your team and have someone take a picture of the entire group while you are holding them up. Be very careful to lower them down carefully with their feet touching first. The hardest part of this challenge probably won’t be finding a stranger near the most famous symbol in town, but rather convincing them to trust your group. If you don't have enough team members to lift someone you can recruit other strangers to help you lift.
#2: Tomorrow is National Chocolate Day (it’s true, look it up). To honor it, get some chocolate and find the statue around town of someone with the last name of Van Pelt. Once you’ve found them take your chocolate and either smear it all around your mouth or chew it so that it’s all over your teeth. Then take a fun picture with the statue and smile big to match his appearance and celebrate the upcoming delicious national holiday.
#3: Started and still based here in Stillwater is the Share With Others organization, who sells products to advance the front yard sharing movement such as Little Free Libraries, Little Free Pantries, and much more. The organization is run by family members of Todd Bol, the late founder of the Little Free Library. Anywhere along the way buy one small non-perishable item and then click HERE to see a Sharing Library located here in town. Take your item to this “pantry” and take a picture or video of your team leaving your item in the box for someone in need. As an added hint, you can find this box close to a place you would get some really grand pizza here in town.
#4: Take a video of any two team members both successfully completing the “Bottle Flip Challenge” at exactly the same time. Basically, take a video of both members each flipping their own standard (16 ounces or so) bottle of water onto a hard surface, and getting it to successfully remain standing upright once it lands. The bottle can be filled with as much water as needed to improve your chances of completing the challenge successfully. What will make this challenge difficult is getting both people to make a successful flip on the same attempt. If one of you fails, encourage them and both try again. To watch a video of two people successfully completing this challenge together click HERE.
#5: To honor Stillwater’s deep history in the lumber industry and so many of it’s historic buildings along the river that once served as mills, take a picture of your entire team all completing any variation of the "Tree Pose" in front of any Yoga studio/facility. If the location doesn't have yoga in their name they should at least have signage out front or on the window promoting that they offer it. To view a picture of someone properly performing a variation of the Tree Pose click HERE.
#6: Take a video of your team successfully completing the “Stopwatch Challenge”. Have one team member open the stopwatch feature on their mobile device. That person will need to close their eyes and another team member will give them commands of when to start and stop the stopwatch so that the time stops somewhere between 4.90 seconds and 5.10 seconds. Every time you don’t successfully do it, reset the clock to 0.00 and rotate roles so that someone else is pressing the stopwatch with their eyes closed and someone else is giving the commands. Try out different strategies and then once you get it, show your time on the video and celebrate as a team!
#7: Find any youth (or group of youth) around the area and take a video of them teaching your team members how to “Floss”. And no, it has nothing to do with your teeth.
#8: Take a video of your team completing the "Paper Airplane Challenge". Basically send some team members to the 2nd level of any building or parking garage and have them toss paper airplanes out into the air in front of them (not just dropping it straight downward). The rest of your team should be on the sidewalk or grass below. Any of your team members at ground level need to catch just one plane before it hits the ground. All team members at ground level can be attempting to catch planes, but only one plane needs to be caught. To watch a team complete this mission successfully click HERE.
#9: Take a video of at least half the members in your group completing the "Bite The Bag" challenge. Stand on one leg, bend down and grab a brown paper bag with your teeth and lift it up as you stand back up on one foot. Must remain on one foot the entire time and can not use your arms, hold onto anything, or bump into anything else. To watch a video of someone successfully completing this challenge click HERE.
#10: A huge part of being great at marketing is listening to your client and understanding the stories that make them who they are. Take a video of your team and any stranger that has a tattoo while they explain what that tattoo means to them. The tattoo must be visible at some point during the video.
#11: Get your team to Teddy Bear Park here in town and find the large rock cliff located along the back edge of the park. Have your team all spread out along the rocks, just slightly above ground level. Create a fun group pose filled with dramatic facial expressions, fear, or adventure. Then have someone take a memorable picture of your team but tell them to snap it so that the ground is not visible in the picture, giving the perspective that your entire team is up on a high cliff.
#12: Today is National Navy Day, which salutes all of the military personnel who have served, both past and present, in the United States Navy. Anywhere around the area find an active Navy military person or a Navy veteran. Then take a video of them watching your entire team doing 10 push-ups or sit-ups at their feet to honor their strength and courage. After you’ve finished recording, spend a few minutes learning more about their time in the service before you depart, as a small gesture of appreciation.
#13: Take a video of at least half of your team members all consuming separate spoonfuls of any brand of hot sauce. So if your team has 5 members at least 3 of them will need to each consume a spoonful of hot sauce. 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.
#14: 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.
#15: Find a postcard that features this area in some way or a greeting card designed by a local artist and purchase it. Then click HERE to go to the Postcard Happiness Project website and scroll down to the profile for John Craig, an adult with Downs Syndrome from Oregon that loves to receive mail. On your postcard include a fun or uplifting message and sign it with your names or your group name. The mailing address for John can be found in his profile description. Stamp your card and take a picture with it to show you've completed your Act Of Kindness.
#16: Get to the base of the historic Main Street steps, located next to Made Coffee. Your objective is to walk up this epic staircase together, but side by side in groups of two. If you are a team with three people, you can walk up with all three people side by side. In your small groups figure out who has been with the company the shortest amount of time and then have the longer employed person(s) place a hand on their shoulder the entire way as you all walk up together. Stay together as a larger team and take as many breaks as needed so that everyone gets to the top at the same time. Once there, take a fun video as you reach the top, or a memorable team selfie with the panoramic view of the town and river in the background.