On August 29th, the Stockton Entertainment Team set up an event for all of the freshman. We played a game called “ThinkFast.” Every team was made up of four people and each team got a remote to answer the questions. Every question had multiple choices to choose from and was worth a certain amount of points. The longer it took the teams to answer, the fewer points they were awarded. Teams could also change their answers before time ran out but when they did this the amount of possible points to earn from that question decreased. There were groups of questions where the teams only had a few seconds to answer each question and each team could get thousands of points. When this happened, the rankings changed drastically. After each question and group of questions, the top ten teams were shown on the projector and each remote told that team where they were ranked.
When the game started, the questions seemed like they would be easy but then they got harder. There were questions about Stockton and then there were questions about celebrities. A few questions showed music videos and the teams were asked questions about a very specific detail from the clip that was shown. There were also pictures shown throughout the game that the teams were told to remember for a later question. The pictures were of all different famous people and then at the end of the game the teams had to answer which person was not shown from the list given.
Of course, there was a prize on the line. The top three teams were given a prize, so everyone tried really hard to win. The Stockton Entertainment Team seems to know that if you really want a bunch of college students to participate in a game, there had better be something they can get out of it because at each event they run that I have attended, there has been at least one small prize given out. The prizes for ThinkFast consisted of tickets to Six Flags Great Adventure, Hurricane Harbor, and a SET basket.
This event really made people come together as a team and try to see who knew more random facts. Some teams, like mine, were put together randomly because we needed more people to the group since we originally thought it was more than four to a team so we had to split up. This helped me get out of my comfort zone and work together with people I had just met. It was a really interesting learning experience. It was a great part of Welcome Week because it was not like any other event. It did not make me feel like I was being forced out of my comfort zone because there were no ice breakers to make me uncomfortable. The event was not about learning about Stockton or listening to people tell us what do in the case of many different situations; it was about learning how to work as a team and just have fun.