Virtual Programming

Tips for Social Distancing Outdoors

Here is some helpful advice from the OAP on how to get outside while social distancing:

• Stay local. Now is not the time to go on that next big adventure. Traveling long distances can further spread the virus. Try exploring your local trails and parks.
• Let’s meet up. Try to meet others at your destination. It's better not to travel inside a car with others. Riding your bike is also a great option!
• Avoid busy times on the weekends and afternoons. Fewer people out and about will reduce your likelihood of coming in contact with the virus. 
• Avoid in-person interactions in stores, gas stations, restaurants, etc., when getting supplies and traveling to your local destinations. 
• Keep it clean. Bring some portable hand sanitizer with you to keep your hands clean. Whenever possible, wash with good old fashioned soap (antibacterial) and water. 
• Make good choices. If in doubt, err on the side of caution. The great outdoors isn’t going anywhere.

Articles about social distancing outdoors

• Running While Social Distancing
  
  
• Cycling with COVID-19
  
  
• Hiking during quarantine
  
  
• Ways to get outside
  
  
• Practice Social Distancing: Go Paddling

Virtual Escape Rooms

New for Spring 2021! Check out the Informal Virtual Escape Room!

The OAP is excited to offer virtual Escape Rooms for groups of 2-8 Individuals (we can accommodate up to three groups simultaneously and serve up to 24 people). These programs are for VCU or University of Richmond Students, Faculty, and/or Staff. These virtual escape rooms are designed to help your team discover how to communicate and work creatively by using online communication. These virtual escape rooms last 1 hour in duration which includes 45 minutes of challenging activities and then 15 minutes of time to debrief the experience. These experiences are held on Zoom conference calls and will be facilitated by an OAP Staff member.

Virtual Escape Rooms Available

Get Me Home If You Can: Oh no! Your 1968 weekend adventure has turned to disaster. After spending a lovely 3 days in Oregon, you want nothing more than to be home... however, it seems that the airline has different plans. Dressed in your best garb, you embark on an adventure just to get yourself home. Can you get there while the happy vacation memories are still fresh?

The Commute: San Francisco is famous for its cable cars. However, there are many other ways the people and visitors of San Francisco get around. Let's see if your team can explore all the transportation options within 45 minutes. Good Luck.

Haunted Park: You have entered the Park only to find that it is not just creepy but haunted as well. Once you step inside, the only way out is to work your way through the rides, graveyard, and other puzzles to get to the exit and breakout of the Haunted Park. 

Are You Ready Player One (difficult): Travel back through time and space in the tribute game to Ernest Cline's best-selling novel. Testing your problem-solving and trivia knowledge. (No spoilers are revealed in the playing of this game.)

Price:

• VCU/UR Student - $15/Session
• VCU/UR Faculty/Staff - $25/Session
• VCU/UR Affiliates - $40/Session

Fitness Level: Low
Skill Level: Beginner

NEW! Informal Virtual Escape Rooms

The OAP is excited to offer free informal virtual escape rooms for VCU and University of Richmond affiliates. These experiences are designed for you and your quarantined partners to have a virtual escape room experience without the need for a reservation, Zoom meeting, or an OAP facilitator. Simply pick one of the rooms below and follow the directions. Good Luck. 

Zombie Outbreak: The Beginning. 

Room Story: Something terrible is happening. The government has been keeping the disasters quiet for years. Oftentimes, they get lucky and contain the problem. But now, reports of a new outbreak have been spreading. Only you can help figure out how to stop the spread before it is too late. Hurry - time is running out!

Directions: (Don’t forget step 4!)

1. Gather the friends, family members, or colleagues whom you wish to conduct this escape room with. You may also try this room solo if you dare.  External resources such as computers, phones, books, paper, and writing utensils are allowed. 
   
   
2. Enter the Zombie Outbreak: The Beginning Room 
   
   
3. Work with your team to solve the puzzles! You have 30 minutes. Your time will begin when you select the below “Enter Room Button”. Once you have escaped or time has run out, please remember to come back to this site and complete step 4. 
   
   
4. Thank you for participating in this program. We would love your feedback! Please fill out  OAP Informal Virtual Escape Room Post Program Evaluation. We would really enjoy hearing what you learned from this experience. Once you have done this, then your experience is completed. Thanks and keep visiting the OAP for more team building programs!

Multi-Directional Rooms

Unlike the other virtual escape rooms where participants stay together and navigate through the same locks, these escape rooms break up your team into several separate rooms where screens are different and clues may be more challenging to discover.

Rooms we will be offering include:

The Katrina Journals - (two rooms)- Katrina found an old journal from her youth. She was a child when the Berlin Wall went up, and she never had a chance to speak up and voice concerns. Upon seeing her old journal, she wondered... if she HAD spoken up, would her story have a different ending? You're going to be split into two groups... one group to Katrina in 1952, the other to Katrina in 1989. Can you work together to break the barrier that kept her quiet all those years?

Life (Three Rooms)- In LIFE, three groups must navigate a single life from different time periods.

Other Outdoor Resources

Explore Hidden Worlds of National Parks from Google Arts and Culture

Podcasts

Adventure Journal Recommendations

Outside Online Recommendations

The Hammer Factor

Views from the Treehouse Podcast (Local Richmond)

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