U of A Discover-E: Round Three

Week 3 of the University of Alberta DiscoverE Mobile Escape Room Summer Camp has come to a close. Even though all three weeks of campers had the exact same theme and mission brief somehow they managed to create very different and very unique rooms.

This is why we do what we do!

Each individual is unique in their ideas, learning, method for solving, and creations. We love to see these differences in a setting where each individual has the opportunity to thrive. Building an escape room has the uncanny ability of bringing all of these elements out within a group.

We had three very different and unique creations come from a single theme by just changing the group of people involved. It has been amazing and exciting to see the differences. We saw firsthand that no one individual, group or experience is the same, and that is always exciting!

For the final week of Mobile Escape Camp this summer, campers from 10-12 years old set out to design an alien planet where you and your team have crash-landed. You need to find resources to survive and the location of your rescue ship before being able to transmit for rescue. Campers created a map of the planet and the sky above for participants to solve. The end creation truly felt like you had crash-landed a spaceship on another planet. The University faculty even challenged the room. Don’t worry, they managed to survive and get rescued!

We had a blast working with the University of Alberta, the Faculty of Engineering and everyone at DiscoverE this summer. We look forward to a future of more exciting ideas and creations!