Panico's Page: Escape / Breakout Room for Math and Science Night

I always wanted to create my own breakout / escape room for months and we decided to create one for math and science night.

The event was from 6:00 to 7:30 so the sessions had to be very quick to get as many students involved so we created a 20 minute game.

The game was based on math concepts which included: number sense, order of operations and geometry.

Successful breakout rooms have a theme that carries the story of the room so myself and Mr. Blackwood the music teacher generated ours around two evil scientists testing students to become our minions.

First, we created a teaser video to for teachers to play to their classes to encourage them to attend the event and more importantly, to come to our room :)

Three stations were created for the maximum amount of participants to work collaboratively in order to escape.

Their mission was each team to unlock their own combination lock to the box which contains the secrets to becoming an evil minion like us.

To maintain on task behavior, all of the clues lead to the next clue. However, ONLY three lead to the correct combination to the locks to ensure they cannot randomly select items and escape on luck. They had to work on their math skills correctly.

The session started and followed a 18 minute video on the projector of us in costume setting up the scenario along with the rules and hints to the first clue. It continued to play as it also served as a countdown timer of 15 minutes to escape which also had some silly moments of us in front of the green screen.
Each table had the following items: white board and marker for computations, ipad, and the evil scientist photo album.

The video plays the first clue "Come Sail Away" and the progress through to escape.

BELOW THE TWO VIDEOS WALK THROUGH ALL THE STEPS TO THE GAME