Middle Years Courses

There are few things as strangely enthralling as the immersive challenge of a good escape room challenge. But how do they come about? What makes some escape room challenges so much better than others? How are those puzzles created and sequenced and how are they made to belong to a particular time and place, with a story of their own? In this popular course, students will spend the week working as a team to design their own escape room in a classroom. Instructors with expertise in the design arts, math, and creative writing will work with the team to create a setting, narrative structure, and theme for the room, and to design and sequence challenging puzzles for participants. Students will end the week by watching a group attempt to escape the room they designed!

Sample Activities: 

• Visit to local escape room 
• Use MBS’ new MakersSpace equipment to construct puzzles
• Brainstorm creative stories and themes for the escape room 

Tuition: $500.00 (register by April 1 and receive $100.00 discount)

Whether you love to write or whether you find it boring and tedious, you’ll improve your writing skills and have fun doing it in this low pressure course! Improve writing fundamentals through weird and creative prompts and exercises.

Tuition: $500.00 (register by April 1 and receive $100.00 discount)

Polish your math skills and get a leg up on the year through math centered projects and puzzles. In a low stress environment, you’ll build your skills in fractions, algebraic manipulations and variables, number sense, error analysis, and beyond. For students pre-Integrated 1 or Algebra 1. 
 

Tuition: $500.00 (register by April 1 and receive $100.00 discount)