Activity Locations
Activity stations will be hosted across multiple facilities on the south part of the UBC Vancouver Campus.
- Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
- Thunderbird Park Fields & Gerald McGavin Rugby Centre
- UBC Tennis Centre
- UBC Tennis Bubble
- Osborne Centre – BodyWorks Fitness Centre & Active Kids
Activity Descriptions & Levels
All activity leaders will be prepared with modifications for their activity to ensure that all activities are accessible for everyone to participate. It’s important to note that participants are welcome to opt out of any activity if they don’t feel comfortable participating.
Location: Tennis Bubble – Court 1
Activity Level: Vigorous
Let’s get ready to roll! This activity will combine the physical skills of maneuvering a wheelchair with throwing a basketball. Participants will be challenged with wheeling through a course before shooting a basketball.
Rules
- Team members will individually take turns dribbling in a wheelchair through a short course. Once they complete the course, they will get 5 attempts to score a basket
- Once a basket is scored, the next team member can start. If a basket is not scored in 5 attempts, the next team member can start!
- Once 5 baskets have bseen scored, the activity is complete!
Location: Tennis Bubble – Court 2
Activity Level: Medium
Compete against another team in 3 matches of Tiny Tennis. You’ll be using smaller rackets, softer balls and a mini size court!
Rules
- Standard doubles rules apply with a few modifications
- Each point is worth 1, and each match goes to 5 points
Location: Tennis Bubble – Court 3
Activity Level: Vigorous
In this challenge, you will be taking a swing at Sanda, also known as Chinese Kickboxing! Participants will start by challenging their punching skills by completing punches on a reflex ball followed by practicing their kicks to complete the challenge.
Rules
- The first team member will start with the reflex ball and complete a set number of punches with the reflex ball.
- Once complete with the reflex ball, the same participant will complete a set number of kicks.
- Once the first team member is complete, the next team member will take their turn at practicing their skills until all team members have completed the challenge!
Location: Tennis Bubble – Foyer
Activity Level: Low
Dive into the world of sexual health education. In this trivia game, teams will need to use their brain and work together to correctly answer all the questions!
Rules
- Teams must spin the wheel to receive their trivia question
- Once 10 questions have been answered correctly your team has completed the activity!
Location: Tennis Bubble – Foyer
Activity Level: Low
Calling all wordsmiths! “Categories” beckons your linguistic prowess. This captivating game revolves around discerning common threads among words within designated categories. Working in teams, players strive to assemble four sets, each containing four words, while aiming to keep mistakes to a minimum—no more than four slip-ups allowed throughout the game.
Rules
- Teams will have to arrange 16 words into 4 categories
- You have 4 attempts to guess correctly
- Once you have correctly sorted the words into the 4 categories you have completed the activity
Location: Tennis Bubble – Court 4
Activity Level: Low
Cheer Jacks is based on the classic game of telephone, but with cheer-jack movements instead. One member from the team will be shown a sequence of the 4 different variations of cheer jacks and shows the next teammate and so on. Pass the movement on to the end and get 3 sequences correct!
Rules
- The volunteer will show the member in front the 1st sequence. That member will then tap the shoulders of the next member to turn around. They will then show the teammate the cheer jack sequence
- If the last person in line shows the correct sequence, then the team gets 1 correct.
- Once the team has completed the 3 sequences correctly, the activity is complete.
Location: UBC Tennis Centre – Boardroom
Activity Level: Low
Challenge yourself to enable accessibility settings and use accessibility software to complete simple tasks. The goal is to complete all 3 activities as fast as you can!
Rules
- Teams need to work together talking to Dragon Naturally to draft an email without using the mouse or keyboard
- Teams will start a zoom meeting and enable live captions
- Once both activities have been completed you are done this challenge!
Location: Osborne Centre – Gym B East
Activity Level: Vigorous
Learn in a new skill in this Fundamental Movement Skill Challenge! Test your abilities and complete the circuit with your team as fast as you can!
Rules
- Teams will travel together to each station and take turns performing the action
- Each station will have various levels of difficulty of fundamental movements (running, jumping, throwing, balances, etc.) and/or sport skills (gymnastics forward roll, basketball lay up, etc.).
- Once each skill/progression has been completed at a given station (or attempted), the team moves to the next station.
- The activity is over when all stations have been completed!
Location: Osborne Centre – BodyWorks Fitness Centre
Activity Level: Vigorous but self-paced
Get ready to get sweaty with a short round of resistance exercise followed by an obstacle course!
Rules
- Teams will each need to go through 3 resistance exercise
- After completing the resistance exercises you move onto the obstacle course
- Once all your teammates have completed all the resistance exercises and the obstacle course twice you have finished the activity!
Location: Frank Buck Field
Activity Level: Low
Target practice that includes the 3rd dimension! Ladder Toss is a fun way to test your accuracy with some bolos and an elevated target with levels of points
Rules
- Teams will throw 1 bolo at a time and try to score as many points as possible with that bolo
- The bolo must stay on the point bar for at least 3 seconds to count
- Teams have completed the activity when they accumulate at least 21 points
Location: Frank Buck Field
Activity Level: Low
Team up and aim for victory in this exciting twist on the classic game. Strategize as you toss bean bags onto the Tic Tac Toe grid. But wait, there’s more! Take your shot at the Cornhole board behind the grid. Sink it through the hole and knock out your opponent’s bean bag from the grid to take the win. Quick thinking and precision are key to conquering this hybrid challenge!
Rules
- Teams will alternate throwing a bean bag onto the tic tac toe grid
- Once a team gets 3 in a row, they have won this match
- Once the teams have finished 2 games, they have completed this activity
- Mini Mini Golf
Location: Frank Buck Field
Activity Level: Low
Show off your putting skills in a short game of mini golf! Teams will work together to sink the ball into each of the 4 holes!
Rules
- Complete the Mini Golf course by staying within the course and putting into the 4 holes.
- Each team will receive one ball and team members will take turns putting until you complete the course.
Location: Arthur Lord Field
Activity Level: Vigorous
Learn how to pass and shoot in this exhilarating lacrosse relay. This activity will be led by two athletes from the UBC Lacrosse Team.
Rules
- Teams will split into two groups
- Each group must successfully catch 20 passes
- Once the catches have been successful, each teammate must catch the ball and run/walk through the cones and score
- Once everyone has gone through the course your team has completed the activity!
Location: Arthur Lord Field
Activity Level: Vigorous
Boost your mood, sharpen your mind, and decrease anxiety levels by participating in this short 5-minute movement break led by a ISPARC Fit Nation instructor.
Rules
- Teams must check-in with the volunteer and wait until a movement break begins.
- Teams must complete one full 5-minute movement break for completion of the activity.
Location: Wolfson East Field
Activity Level: Low
Try out this game involving Vancouver’s favourite pastime, Ultimate Frisbee. Part Target practice, part team defense, KanJam might be your new summer game.
Rules
- Teams will throw 1 disc at a time and try to score as many points as possible with that disc
- Each person must throw at least once before someone can throw twice
- Teams have completed the station when they have 11 points!
Location: Wolfson East Field
Activity Level: Vigorous
Face off against another team in a giant version of the classic college game, Beer Pong! Teams will compete to clear out cups with giant ping pong balls.
Rules
- Teams will take turn throwing 2 dodgeballs attempting to get them into the buckets
- Once a ball lands in a bucket it is removed from the field of play
- First team to clear all their opponents’ buckets win!
- Teams must complete 3 matches against another team
- Win or lose, both teams will get a sticker for completing the activity
Location: Wolfson East Field
Activity Level: Low
Soak up the sun with this throwing challenge located on Wolfson East Field. Teams must get 3 points, by attempting to throw the bocce ball and hit the wiffle ball!
Rules
- The Whiffle Ball will be placed 10 meters away from the coned throwing line.
- Each player will get to throw a bocce ball, attempting to hit the wiffle ball
- Every time the bocce ball hits the wiffle ball the team receives a point.
- Once the team receives 3 points, they have completed the challenge!
Location: Between the UBC Tennis Centre and Wolfson East Field
Activity Level: Medium
Don’t be afraid to get a little wet in Squirt Bottle Relay. You’ll be using a water-filled squirt bottle to propel your team’s ping-ping ball through an obstacle course of pool toys.
Rules
- In this relay style game use the bottle to squirt water to push the ball through the obstacles and loop around to the other side of the course.
- Once the first team member completes the first loop of the course, they must pass the squirt bottle to the second team member who will complete the second loop.
- The race is over when the team has finished 10 loops
- If you do not win your first race you have 1 more attempt before you can move on!
Location: Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre – East Concourse
Activity Level: Low
We are all UBC Thunderbirds! Learn more about what it means to be a Thunderbirds and discover some fun facts! Join us for a short scavenger hunt where you will get to discover some fun facts about being a UBC Thunderbird! To complete this activity, you will need to complete 5 scavenger hunt activities.
Rules
- While staying together, your team needs to find all the items listen in the scavenger hunt list
- As proof, teams will need to take a team photo at each location with the item
Location: Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre – East Concourse
Activity Level: Low
Get ready to test your hand eye coordinating with this fun cup-stacking task. Competing teams will race against one another to build and take down a small tower of coffee cups.
Rules
- Take turn stacking the cups, with each level getting more difficult
- If your stack falls you have to start again
- Once each team member has successfully built and taken down their stacks you have completed the challenge!
Location: Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre – East Concourse
Activity Level: Medium
It may not quite be the Olympics, but this challenge will surprise you with its sneaky level of difficulty! Each member of your team must throw the pool noodle through the hoop.
Rules
- Each team member will be given 2 attempts to throw the pool noodle through the ring from the furthest distance marker
- If a team member is successful, they do not need to throw the noodle again, and instead will assist in returning the noodle to their other teammates
- Every 2 attempts, team members will move up to the next distance marker
- Once all team members have completed the activity, they may receive their completion mark and move to the next activity!
Location: Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre – Arena Floor
Activity Level: Vigorous
In this game of Connect-4 with a twist, teams will be racing through an inflatable obstacle course, placing markers into a giant Connect-4 as fast as possible. The first team to get 4 in a row wins! Will you be victorious?
Rules
- Each teammate must go through the inflatable obstacle course. Once they have completed, they pick up a connect four disc and place it in the frame.
- Once the disc has been placed the next teammate can start on the inflatable.
- Team members will keep going through the inflatable till one team has successfully connected 4 discs in a row. (Vertical, horizontal or diagonal).
- When a team gets connect four, they have won, and the game is over.
Location: Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre – Arena Floor
Activity Level: Vigorous
Get ready for an exhilarating challenge that’ll put your memory and agility to the test! In this exciting game, players embark on a thrilling journey towards the Memory Board, where 25 mysterious symbols await. Once you’ve etched those symbols into your mind, it’s time to conquer the epic Inflatable Obstacle Course at lightning speed! But hold on tight, because the real fun begins when you dash back to your team to match the symbols to their rightful spots on the board.
Rules
- The game begins with one team member studying the filled memory board, which contains 25 symbols
- Once the team member has memorized the symbols, they proceed to race through the Inflatable Obstacle Course.
- After completing the course, the team member retrieves symbols on the table and places them on their team’s blank memory board, matching them to their correct spots.
- The next designated team member can start memorizing the symbols once the previous one has completed the obstacle course.
- Team members will work together to complete the board
Location: Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre – West Concourse
Activity Level: Vigorous
Participants will drop into the studio to participate in two full songs worth of Zumba to dance it out with their teammates and get their heart pumping!
Rules
- Teams can jump in at any time.
- Teams must stay for the duration of at least two full songs.
Location:Gerald McGavin Rugby Centre
Activity Level: Medium
Embark on a great goal ball adventure! Practice the fundamental skills of this popular accessible sport with your pals as you roll, block, pivot, and score!
Rules
- In this activity, two team members in the observation box will be giving directions to their teammates
- All other team member will be blindfolded
- They will guide their teammates to pass the ball until they have scored
- After scoring everyone switches positions
- Once your team has scored 3 points you have completed the activity!