Immersive Programming
Bring thought-provoking, story-based experiences to your school or community center
Humans are made of stories. The stories we tell ourselves and others. Stories can create bridges, connecting people and subjects across time and space. They can create opportunities for indispensable conversations. They connect us to ourselves, our learning, and to the world around us. Stories allow us to see, and become better versions of ourselves. And stories are joy, which is the most important thing of all. What is the story you tell you, about you?
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The benevolent and bountiful corporation, Squapple, has hired a team of experts to find and harvest resources for their new technology. The team has been tasked to explore an unknown region of the Atlantic Ocean. Little does Squapple know the history that has been growing and blossoming beneath the waves. Or perhaps they do… |
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Gets students what they need, from an expert in each field, while also upping engagement with rigorous play-based lessons that build neural pathways & schema to yield life-long learning.
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CharacterAfter setting our community expectations, participants create characters using our moral and ethical alignments framework. We talk about their character's core motivations and needs, and then we consider the intersections of their identities that led their character to those alignments, using another framework based on Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Intersectional Theory.”
Adventurers write their character's backstories, decide upon occupations, and think through their character's behavior, decision making processes, and how they react when under stress. They work on this development throughout the program in their post-adventure reflections. |
NavigationWe begin each session with an out of character discussion on the day's themes.
Back in character, adventurers arrive at their first destination, and learn how to move in this fictional world, how to role play, and they embark on an adventure where in small groups, using geometry, algebra, and puzzle solving, they circumnavigate across the ocean and then into the depths to find a location to mine resources for their benevolent company. They will encounter obstacles along the way, and have to work together to solve these puzzles, and interact with what or whomsoever they find. |
InheritancePlayers explore the habitat and uncover evidence of civilizations past and present. The more they engage in what they read, the more fruitful the experience will be. They have to wrangle with uncomfortable realities and figure out the best course of action. Some may choose to fight, some may choose other tactics.
Ruins will be uncovered, shipwrecks discovered, voices will stream from objects, and perhaps even some ghosts will appear. It all depends on how the explorers proceed, and what decisions (or mistakes) they make. |
ResponsibilityWith any luck, the explorers will embark upon a scientific experiment, as well as some improvisational logic puzzles, and deductive and inductive reasoning. Depending on the results of their experiments, and their collaborative decision making (requiring listening skills we will be building upon along the way), this will unlock other narrative elements.
Depending on where they look, and with whom they speak, they may uncover a devious plot or two, find ancient texts curiously preserved, learn about how sound travels underwater, or have to de-escalate tensions between sea creatures. They also learn of three separate factions within an underwater community that each are vying for power. |
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Non-Fiction"Genetics shed light on symbiosis of anglerfish and glowing bacteria” By Krishna Ramanujan | July 16, 2018
“Eight-Armed Underwater Bullies: Watch Octopuses Punch Fish” By Elizabeth Preston | Dec. 24, 2020 “Way before Columbus, ancient Malians sailed to the Americas in 1311” by Bridget Boakye |Dec 5, 2018 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson | 1962 River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson | 2013 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup | 1841 |
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