Discover Your Potential: A Guide to the UCF Challenge Course
The UCF Challenge Course offers a unique opportunity to enhance teamwork, leadership, and personal growth through experiential learning. With a variety of programs tailored to meet diverse needs, the Challenge Course is open by reservation or special event, providing a secure and challenging environment for participants to explore their potential.
Customized Programs for Every Group
The UCF Challenge Course designs programs based on specific group needs and goals. To request a reservation, interested parties can complete the Reservation Request Form. The Challenge Course offers varied programs such as the Portable Connection Program, the Express Connection Program, the Low Element Program, the Odyssey III High Element Course, and the Open Knight Climb.
Portable Connection Program
This program brings the Challenge Course to you, offering a variety of portable activities and initiatives designed to enhance the learning environment through hands-on, experiential activities. It is a flexible option that can be tailored to various locations and group sizes.
Express Connection Program
This program meets you on the Challenge Course for an expedited teambuilding program. It involves a series of games and activities that help group members connect and have fun with each other, fostering camaraderie and collaboration in a short amount of time.
Explore Your Strengths Program
A brand-new program blends the power of self-discovery with teambuilding on the UCF Challenge Course. Partnering with UCF Parent and Family Fund Grant, this program offers students an opportunity to explore their natural talents using the CliftonStrengths assessment. This program is ideal for Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) looking to unlock their individual and collective potential, while fostering deeper connections and a sense of belonging within the campus community.
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Program Structure
The Explore Your Strengths program involves several key steps:
CliftonStrengths Assessment: Once that is determined, each participant will receive an access code to complete the CliftonStrengths assessment online.
Strengths Workshop: Following the assessment, students participate in a Strengths Workshop designed to help them understand and leverage their unique talents.
Challenge Course Teambuilding Program: Following the Strengths Workshop, students will engage in a dynamic Challenge Course Teambuilding Program designed to encourage self-awareness, strengthen teamwork, and promote communication. This program will include games, activities, and challenges intended to help you explore your strengths through experiential learning.
The entire Explore Your Strengths program can be done all in one day or broken up into two sessions. Whether you’re looking to gain insights into your own leadership strengths, collaborate more effectively with others, or simply explore new ways to succeed, this program is for you!
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Low Element Program
This program takes groups through a series of games, activities, and ground-based physical elements that will challenge them to work together toward a common goal. Facilitators will guide the group through this process, offering additional challenges when needed and adapting the environment to be the most impactful for all group members. This program focuses on the group as a whole by presenting problem-solving scenarios that require and develop teamwork, trust, leadership, and communication skills.
Odyssey III High Element Course
Groups will work through our High Element Course, the Odyssey III. Depending on group size and program duration, groups may do one level or both levels of the course. The Odyssey III focuses on individual and small group achievements by providing the opportunity to push oneself both physically and mentally through controlled risk-taking situations.
Full Day Programs
This is the ultimate program if you are looking for a complete team-building experience combining the benefits of Teambuilding and High Adventure programs. Full Day Programs start with teambuilding before moving the group through Ground School and then the Odyssey III High Element course.
Open Knight Climb
Open Knight Climb is an opportunity for students to experience our High Element Course, the Odyssey III, at night! Sign up with your friends, or make some new friends as you work together to get across the course. Registration will open 1 week before the event (3/27/24).
Important Information for Participants
Using the link provided below, you can select a timeslot (once registration opens). This is the time you must arrive at the course and check in; it will take longer for you to complete the course. You will start your climb after you check in during your timeslot. Expect to be on the course for approximately one hour. Ex. If you register for the 6:45-7:00 timeslot, you must arrive during that time or you will forfeit your registration. Please follow the guidelines of your current parking pass. Most passes allow you to park in any green student parking lots or garages. You will need to walk through the field along Central Florida Blvd and then through the woods to get to the Challenge Course Pavilion. There will be signs and lanterns on the trails to help you. Reminder: This is a SUBSTANCE-FREE event.
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Experiential Education Principles
Our facilitators plan and develop activities to create opportunities for team and individual learning in a secure and challenging environment. Our Challenge Course programs are based on Experiential Education principles. Experiential Education is a learning process that places participants in a unique setting with purposeful problem-solving activities that require full engagement. For the benefit of the group experience, participants are expected to stay for the whole extension of the program. Participants are not allowed to come after the program has already started.
Important Policies and Information
Cancellation Policy
UCF Student groups who cancel within one week of the program date will be charged a processing fee of $50.00. The group contact is responsible for ensuring that the group is properly informed and ready for the day’s events.
Participant Requirements
Non-UCF student participants under the age of 18 must-have a Medical Information Form and Release Liability Form signed by a parent or legal guardian.
Weather Conditions
Weather conditions are variables we can’t control. If a Challenge Course program must be canceled due to severe weather conditions, every effort will be made to reschedule the event.
Outdoor Adventure Program
The Outdoor Adventure program is comprised of Adventure Trips, Challenge Course, Climbing Tower, Outdoor Adventure Center and the William E. & Mary Jo Davis Recreation area at Lake Claire. The Outdoor Adventure Trips Program provides students an opportunity to enhance their experience at UCF by providing fun and enriching outdoor experiences. Rent gear and learn more about outdoor recreation in Central Florida. The office is open for you to reserve rental gear, ask questions, and register for Adventure Trips. Students who want to enjoy the outdoors on their own can take advantage of the William E. and Mary Jo Davis Recreation Area at Lake Claire, which offers equipment and water vessel checkouts. Outdoor Adventure offers Open Water SCUBA certification courses.
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