Nose Creek School
How do you make an escape room with nearly 1000 students?
You don’t!
You make 6 escape rooms.
6 Different Mobile Escape Rooms
In our largest and longest-ever residency program to date, 4 different Mobile Escape staff worked with every student at Nose Creek School over the course of 4 months to create 6 different escape rooms inside the school:
Grade 9 - Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster
Grade 8 - Da Vinci Museum Heist
Grade 7 - City’Scape Calgary 2.0
Grade 6 - Art Gallery and Crime Scene
Grade 5 - Kodiak Creek Express - Runaway Train
Grade 4 - Robot Rocket Launch
The Grade 8s and 9s went first and set the bar high!
Grade 9 - Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster
The grade 9 students were introduced to their electricity unit by creating puzzles to power up Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. In the version of the story the grade 9 students created, tourists stumbled upon Dr. Frankenstein's lab but then the door was locked behind them. The tourists had to look through Dr. Frankenstein’s notes in order to find clues and figure out how to generate the power needed to bring the monster to life so that he could bang the door down for them!
One of my (Paul) highlights from working with these grade 9 students was working with the PLP students. It was a beautiful display of their incredible abilities. The PLP class created a unique puzzle where the “tourists” had to find find a battery in order to complete a circuit (which the students created themselves!) illuminating certain lights that revealed new information required to power up the monster. Enjoy!
Grade 8 - Da Vinci Museum Heist
This Da Vinci escape room was a theme never done before, and it took a ton of brain power and teamwork to pull it off.
The students were both learning about Da Vinci’s inventions while simultaneously trying to turn them into clues… not easy!
Some highlights from the room include a stunning sketch of Mona Lisa and a functional crossbow. Great job grade 8s!
Then, it was time for the Grade 6s and 7s to show off their ingenuity.
Grade 7 - City’Scape Calgary 2.0
Let’s build a city and turn it into an escape room! The grade 7 students created “Calgary 2.0” where things had gone astray and power needed to be restored. Specialists (the parents, family and friends) were brought in to help the Mayor, solve the puzzles, and bring the futuristic city back on-line.
Grade 6 - Art Gallery Crime Scene
The grade 6 students were tasked with creating an escape room linked to their Evidence and Investigation unit, more commonly known as “The CSI unit”. In the story of this room the NCS Art Gallery had an attempted robbery. The priceless gem was taken from its secure pedestal, and the thief got away. Detectives (the parents) were brought in to inspect the crime scene looking for evidence to narrow down the list of suspects and make an arrest in order to reclaim the gem.
And last, but certainly not least, were the grade 4s and 5s.
They might be smaller and less experienced than the older students, but they make up for it in gusto!
There was some fabulous building going on as the students in each grade sought to accomplish some pretty ambitious builds: including a rocket ship and a train, each big enough to get inside.
Grade 5 - Kodiak Creek Express
Choo choooo!
Uh oh! The conductor’s asleep and there’s a bridge out ahead!
Your job is to stop the train (made by the fabulous Grade 5s) from barrelling off the tracks into the canyon below.
One of my (Eric) highlights from this residency was the animation that the students made to signify the train going down the tracks.
There were also multiple rooms on board our train: first class, second class, and cargo. This created a really cool dynamic and resulted in both a fun but extremely challenging escape room.
Grade 4 - Robot Rocket Launch
The whimsical Grade 4s developed their own storyline: a mad scientist trying to take over the world with robots! The only way to stop him? Launch a rocket into space with a LOT of water on board, and drop it on the robots to short-circuit them… makes sense, right?
Well it did to these little gaffers! Which is why they were furiously building robot parts, diagrams, a rocket, and a well!
A Huge Thank You
The staff at Nose Creek School deserve a huge thank-you and congratulations. They all worked so hard and created such wonderful work. The teamwork between students was incredible, and this culture existed at the school before we got there thanks to the amazing staff.
A special thank-you to Sarabeth who was brave enough to believe this was all possible.
Congratulations NCS!