Building an Escape Room: Do you like working with others to solve an escape room?
Or are you interested in how to design and build things? Or maybe codes and ciphers? In this
course, we will, as a class, design and construct an escape room of our own for others to try out.
Along the way, you’ll encounter Navajo Code Talkers, the Code-Girls of WWII, and even a bit
about quantum cryptography. You’ll use tools from microcontrollers to screwdrivers to a laser
cutter. As we work in the Eckerd College Makerspace, we will also study the Maker Movement
and consider how it might shape the ways in which we think about both learning and building.
No experience in puzzling, building or making is necessary. We will learn and work together to
develop the skills we need to successfully build our escape room.
Or are you interested in how to design and build things? Or maybe codes and ciphers? In this
course, we will, as a class, design and construct an escape room of our own for others to try out.
Along the way, you’ll encounter Navajo Code Talkers, the Code-Girls of WWII, and even a bit
about quantum cryptography. You’ll use tools from microcontrollers to screwdrivers to a laser
cutter. As we work in the Eckerd College Makerspace, we will also study the Maker Movement
and consider how it might shape the ways in which we think about both learning and building.
No experience in puzzling, building or making is necessary. We will learn and work together to
develop the skills we need to successfully build our escape room.
- Teacher: Anne Cox