The Rejection Challenge

What is the "rejection challenge"?

This week, we had an interesting task for which we played a game called Rejection Challenge. Each team started with a plastic box and had to make trades to see what people would trade and can we end up with something of more worth. The Rejection Challenge was very interesting because I was curious to see two things: one, what would people be willing to trade and two, over the course of the one hour, how valuable of an item can we get.

What did we do?

When we got our first item, I had the idea to ask the girl scouts to trade the box for a box of cookies, if i bought two boxes from them.  From there we went to the library where we thought that we could find a lot of students who would be willing to want the cookies.  After asking around for a bit, our team's strategy was to split up after receiving a few boxes of girl scout cookies so we could maximize items within the time slot.  We ended up with a 10 dollar gift card, a water bottle, and other items,

What did we learn?

It's interesting to see how value of items is subjective as it changes from one person to another. It was also eye opening to see some more shy members of the team be more out going and asking questions.  I think the most important thing that we learned was how to approach strangers and ask for things without being embarrassed