Adventure

Story lines can be challenging to develop. Past events have focused on basic themes that are widely used (for good reason!) in other forms of entertainment.

The important features are:

• The participating teams are called on to be heroes
• The impetus for their “mission” is to do something clearly “good”
• Sense of urgency and importance
• Need to visit at least a few different areas nearby (i.e. a lab, a person, the location of a downed satellite containing a secret technology meant to…)

Story One: Recovering the stolen artefact

If creating an event for kids, the story needs to stay simple.

Story Two: Stopping an “evil” organization/company/group

A Mysterious, Powerful, Research Organization (MPRO) has been leaking secret technologies developed by >>Insert Your Institution’s Name here<< research labs. These technologies are dangerous. >>Your Institution’s<< Intelligence had a source within the organization, but they have gone missing. They need a team of covert scientists who won’t be suspected to gain access to the research labs, determine what was taken, find and meet the >>Your Institution’s<< Intelligence’s source, and recover the stolen items.
Part of the fun has been creating these organizations to fight with, or to ally with. We have had volunteers dress in suits and put on briefings for teams as they depart on their “mission”, flashing name badges and Ids that look decently realistic (at minimal cost, thanks to good graphics design work by students).

Other story examples:

• Save the environment
• Solve the _____ mystery
• Decode the secret message by assembling clues or discovering the location of the cipher (i.e. a code or a book cipher, where words are crossed out and compared to an original)

Get creative!