Seniors enjoy annual Escape Room game to prepare for state-mandated Civics Exam
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Just before Christmas break teams of seniors competed in the Break-Out of Central High School Escape Room game. The game, which is a mix of an Escape Room game and an Amazing Race game, was created by Central’s government teacher to help students review for the state-mandated Civics Exam that every senior in Alabama’s public schools must pass in order to graduate.
Teams of four to five seniors received the same colored tee to wear during the competition and keep as a souvenir. The game includes 10 rooms with approximately 10 challenge boxes teams must solve in each room. Once all the challenge boxes in a room are solved, the team receives a colored card with the combo to the matching colored lock on the front door.
All the teams successfully solved all 10 rooms well under the 3-hour time limit, which shows they really knew their content. Beyond content knowledge, students used life skills such as problem solving and teamwork, and at the same time they were making memories with their classmates. Thank you to the staff members who made the game possible by volunteering after hours to help run the game, Chris Elliott, Vernon Harmon, Morris Phillips, Derek Humphrey, Breezy Johnson, Brandi Lee, Jacques Mitchell, Jacob Moon, Ethan Mynard, Dr. Andy Watson, and Shelley Wood. These same teachers come back and volunteer each year because they have as much fun running the rooms as the students do playing the game.
Congratulations to the first team to solve all 10 rooms and unlock all 10 locks, Team Light Green, which included Traci Cox, Corrie Haynes, Janavious Johnson, and Imiya Reese. Besides bragging rights, each member on the winning team will receive their grand prize, a framed copy of the U.S. Constitution, at the Senior Academic Awards Ceremony in the spring.
Pictured is the red team as they interpret the mirror writing clue, the green team as they find the Eisenhower stamps hidden in the trunk of the car on the interstate, the yellow team as they unscramble the letters for Smith to find the answer “capitalism” in the Wealth of Nations, the gray team as they put the correct number of balloons in the reindeer horns to represent the continents, the pink team as they find the license plate clue for “no taxation without representation,” the white team as they find the five freedoms of the first amendment, the orange team as they name the two major political parties represented by the donkey and the elephant, the purple team as they have to find the national anthem in the Baptist Hymnal, and the turquoise team as each senior has to individually recite the “Pledge of Allegiance.”
We look forward to reporting on the school average for the state-mandated Civics Exam results after such a successful review game.
