Central seniors recently 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 every senior in Alabama’s public schools must pass in order to graduate. The game is made possible through a partnership with the Literacy Everywhere! grant.
Teams of 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 that 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 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, Jordan Bryant, Dr. Terry Conkle, Chris Elliott, Diana Shealey, Morris Phillips, principal Brandi Lee, Jacques Mitchell, Jacob Moon, Deborah Watson, Dr. Andy Watson, Mary White, 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.
This year we also had a couple parents join the fun; thank you to Mr. Sizemoe, Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Ware to help even out the teams.
Congratulations to the first team to solve all 10 rooms and unlock all 10 locks, Team Pink, which included Ruby Burks, Miranda Coker, Tay Howard, Akeelah Houston, and Micah Parson. 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 are the white team as they put the correct number of balloons for the number of continents in Rudolph’s horns, the blue team as they find the clue on the number of years in a presidential term in the pocket Constitution, the green team as they make it across the minefield to identify the Axis powers on the map, the yellow team as they find the Panama Canal on the globe using coordinate clues that were hidden in a tennis ball, the purple team as they use Morse Code to find the clue, and the orange team as they find the hidden clue in the Gettysburg Address.
We look forward to reporting on the school average for the state-mandated Civics Exam results after such a successful review game.
