1. Escape Room
Ben Leung
American International School Hong Kong

2. What is an escape room?
You voluntarily get locked to put yourself into a situation where you must break out sherlock holmes style by solving problems and puzzles.

3. Let’s watch a brief video

4. Some activity to poll the audience
PLAY KAHOOT!

5. What can I take away? Inspiration STEAM FUN! Technology Science Art
What I have done
Music: compose background music, create sound effects
Drama: dramatise videos for your escape room
Art/Computer Design: create digital artwork for your escape room
My Programmers/Computer Science students: writes the logic and the interface for the puzzles.
Engineering
Inspiration
Math/Music
STEAM
FUN!

6. Overview of this presentation
Introduction
How it all started
What I am doing now
What I plan to do in the future
Constructive input
Resources for you

7. How it all started

8. How it all started My admins wanted teachers to collaborate!
I have always wanted to collaborate and create an “All AIS project”
Looking for a big project idea to engage my students throughout the year.

9. How it all started My admins wanted teachers to collaborate!
I have always wanted to collaborate and create an “All AIS project”
Looking for a big project idea to engage my students throughout the year.

10. How it all started Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3
How my school works
3 Semesters in the school year
2 Progress Reports and 1 Final Report
What I wanted
3 Major assessments at the conclusion of each semester
The Escape Room idea leads nicely into having 3 assessments. One per trimester
Project 1: A Project where students are able to navigate through varying canvases
Project 2: A Project where students can build on their previous work and add additional interactions like clicking on objects
Project 3: Creating solvable puzzles and enhancing the overall play experience of the escape
Semester 2
Semester 3

11. What my students are developing
Can you figure out the combination?

12. What my students are developing
4582

13. What my students are developing

14. One of my biggest desire was to have students work on a project cycle where they revisit and further develop their previous projects.
Project 1: A Project where students are able to navigate through varying canvases
Project 2: A Project where students can build on their previous work and add additional interactions like clicking on objects
Project 3: Creating solvable puzzles and enhancing the overall play experience of the escape

15. Explore Here are some of the projects my students are working on
Sounds and collecting objects
Special UV Light
Escape from the timed bomb
Erase the letters puzzle

16. 2. Collaboration Computer Programming Computer Design Music Drama
Collaborating with:
Computer Design
Produce artwork for the project including art pieces for the escape room using sketchup and photoshopping title pages
Music
Designing background music and sound effects
Drama
Creating scripted videos to draw the audience into the escape room narrative.

17. 2. Interesting Problems I encountered
I need to learn more about Game Design!
Specifically Puzzle Design
Encourage students to think outside the box.

18. 2. Encouraging students to think outside the box
Most students think about numbers when they think about puzzles because they were exposed to numerical locks.

19. 2. Encouraging students to think outside the box
A simple push switch lock done interesting.

20. Let’s play Escape Room!
min activity!

21. Additional Thoughts for collaboration
Physics/Engineering
3D printer
Unity
Short Story
Physics/Engineering students: can attempt to create some of the escape room puzzles. Some of them will be challenging!
3D print the escape room as a highlight
Use Unity and create a virtual world with interactive characters
English students could create a narrative as the theme of the escape room
Humanities students could take a real piece of history as write that as a narrative for the theme of escape rooms.

22. Resources for you Thimble by Mozilla p5js Breakout edu
Play an escape room in Hong Kong today!
Interested in the Escape Room Computer Code?
Physics/Engineering students: can attempt to create some of the escape room puzzles. Some of them will be challenging!
3D print the escape room as a highlight
Use Unity and create a virtual world with interactive characters
English students could create a narrative as the theme of the escape room
Humanities students could take a real piece of history as write that as a narrative for the theme of escape rooms.

23. Questions?

24. Thank You