In this immersive experience, your campers are thrust into a crime-solving adventure set aboard a cruise ship in the year 2070. As onboard investigators, the campers begin their adventure in the passenger cabin of Dr. Lisa Lenkov, a famed scientist who was found unconscious earlier that morning. By completing a series of puzzles and challenges, they will then piece together what happened to Dr. Lenkov, and why. The campers must then put their investigative skills to the test to retrieve a stolen secret possession of Dr. Lenkov, catch the thief, and revive the scientist before the cruise ship docks.
This fun and engaging experience is also educational. Your campers will brush up on their knowledge of Longitudinal and Latitudinal coordinates as well as solve logic puzzles that tap into higher-order thinking skills. They will also learn about endothermic and exothermic chemical reactions, and then use this information in a hands-on, inquiry-based experiment in order to complete the final challenge.
Using immersive storytelling to engage campers, this educational STEM adventure surpasses simple participation and promotes emotional involvement. Now you can teach a science class with a story or even a murder mystery where the participants work together to figure out who the murderer was using chemistry and biology experiments. Each adventure has puzzles, activities, and clues that lead the students to discover who the murderer is, all revolving around the curriculum and the story.
Everyone wants to be a hero. In our adventures, your campers actually play the role of a hero who solves mysteries using STEM and teamwork. Elixir of Life isn’t a program that your campers take… it’s an online course that teaches you, the instructor, how to run the adventure, as well as providing digital slides, printable instructions, and marketing materials for promoting your adventures. You will receive step-by-step instructions and videos on each stage of the story. Everything you need to run Elixir of Life is on our course learning platform and explained in the Host’s Guide.
Yes! You can even run it in your own camp. We are confident that once you experience our adventures, you will want more.
What this course provides:
Our objective is to help you see how stories and STEM education can be used to create more immersive and emotionally engaging education. When you find that this program improves your campers’ experience, please consider our other adventures similar to this one.