In Escape Room: Stranded!, students will dive behind the scenes of escape rooms and discover what it takes to create mind-bending puzzles and games. Students will visit a local escape room to experience the immersive adventure firsthand. Then, they’ll draw on that challenge to design and fabricate interactive puzzles and props for a room set on a deserted island, where their players have washed ashore and must solve their way off before the tide comes in.

This studio combines critical thinking and creativity, challenging students to build locks, hidden compartments, and coded clues out of cardboard, wood, and simple electronics. Students will write the story, design the set, and test their puzzles on fellow players, refining them until they are tricky but fair. The studio ends with an open escape room, where visitors try to escape the island.