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We had a Ball!

Expedition Technology · June 19, 2023

Two mini-golf putters crossed on a concrete floor beside a blue ball.

A looping animation of a yellow golf ball wobbling in the hole of a doughnut.

Last week wasn’t quite par for the course at Expedition as we transformed our offices for our inaugural putt-putt contest. Teams scrambled to design and build original holes around our office. From Star Wars to Skee-Ball themed, we aced our creative competitiveness. All week long, the clatter of golf balls and associated laughter exhibited the fun, creative culture that makes us unique.

While many played for fun, there were also two ways to win: chip in and showcase your creativity to be voted favorite hole or swing into action and have the best score on the full course.

Even our CEO couldn’t resist the greens, reminding us creative play is a great catalyst for the innovative thinking required to do our novel work. Our putt-putt competition isn’t just about sinking the perfect putt; it’s about promoting creativity, building relationships, and, most importantly, having fun!

A homemade mini-golf hole on green baize: a corrugated drainpipe raised on stones acts as a tunnel, with a paper-lined bunker of shredded packing card to one side and a small water hazard in a glass dish.

A Skee-Ball style hole — a strip of artificial turf ramping up to a backboard of coloured target rings — with a putter lining up a ball at the bottom.

The view from inside a paper bag looking out through a cut opening, a yellow golf ball waiting on the floor beyond.

A Star Wars themed hole built from cardboard and blue painter’s tape: a tall canyon ramp strung with fairy lights, a hand-painted planet, chunks of black rock and a small R2-D2 toy standing guard.

A plush stormtrooper standing beside a cardboard Death Star and a taped-together ramp forming part of a Star Wars themed hole.

A carefully built volcano hole: a grey painted board with a model volcano at the far end, a ramp leading up over a channel of glossy orange lava, speckled with flecks of red and yellow.

With so many great designs, the only fairway to win is to play; fortunately, the officials weren’t too rough.

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