Challenges put students in role-playing scenarios with objectives like navigating an asteroid belt, communicating with aliens, and fixing technical issues with their ship in the Galaxy theme, and decoding binary, creating circuits, and using UV lights as undercover agents in the CIA theme.
From individual classrooms to a gym filled with tables, Unboxed™ challenges kits are self-contained allowing us to scale events to impact as many students as possible.
Each theme is carefully designed to allow students with different strengths to each contribute in meaningful ways.
Unboxed™ challenges are the engaging, hands-on activities students need, reinforcing concepts they are learning in the classroom while shaking up the day-to-day and developing critical skills for their futures.
The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs 2020 report outlined the top ten skills of 2025, which unsurprisingly included problem-solving, leadership and social influence, flexibility, and resilience. Due to pandemic-related educational disruptions, students are falling behind in developing these interpersonal skills because remote learning and social distancing results in less engagement with their peers. Unboxed™ challenges are filled with opportunities to practice and develop these critical interpersonal skills.
If you have questions or are interested in scheduling an Unboxed™ event, please reach out to outreach@mtu.edu.
