Activities for May & October

In this high-stakes digital escape experience, teams of students must crack codes, uncover hidden clues, and outwit the warden to break free from Kifungo Prison. Combining online challenges with layered puzzles and cryptic messages, this immersive scenario tests logic, teamwork, and attention to detail. The warden’s office holds the key — buried in encrypted files, overlooked evidence, and messages that refuse to give up their secrets. Will your team escape in time... or vanish into the system?

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Students do not need to prepare in advance 

Your mission: Deliver essential escape tools—rope, a phone, and even a cake with a file hidden inside—straight into the heart of the prison yard! Using the materials provided, design a secure transport system to carry these items along a zipline. But timing is everything—can you release the payload at just the right moment to ensure a perfect drop?

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Students do not need to prepare in advance 

Design and build a functional grappling hook using the materials provided. Test your creation by attempting to retrieve the keys from the far wall. Precision, creativity, and a steady hand will determine your success—can you escape? 

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Students do not need to prepare in advance

Break out with math! In this DESMOS animation challenge, use equations, inequalities, and polygons to create a dynamic prison break scene. Will you animate a dramatic wall explosion, a cracking keypad sequence, or a sweeping guard spotlight? Use math to bring the action to life—precision and creativity are your keys to escape!

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Students should complete and submit their creations one week prior to October's event, or earlier

The bridge is old, unstable, and barely holding together—but that’s exactly what you need. Trapped on the wrong side of a deep ravine, your only way forward is to cross…and destroy the bridge behind you. Your team must build a bridge just strong enough to make it across—then bring it crashing down before the guards follow. Will your escape route hold long enough, or will it collapse too soon? In the Ravine of No Return, there’s no turning back—only racing forward before everything falls apart.

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Students do not need to prepare in advance

For decades, Thuravi's regime hailed Bhasara Dam as a marvel of engineering and progress—its floodgates holding back not just the river, but the truth. Beneath its shimmering waters lies a terrible secret: a massacre erased from history, a cover-up buried beneath the lakebed. But technology remembers what the regime wants forgotten. Using AR sandbox mapping, you will uncover the landscape as it once was—before the flood, before the lies. Then, with a well-aimed catapult, you will bring the dam crashing down. The flood is coming. Will you be the one to break the silence ?

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Students do not need to prepare in advance