Students deliver SAWA-inspired Circular Escape Rooms!

Last week, students at the Lebanon Lyceum in Rotterdam invited Nice Developers to present the Circular Escape Rooms. The students have spent the past 10 weeks studying circularity and sustainability for the Technology and Application (T&T) subject. Thus, they started in October this year with a visit to the client Nice Developers in Nice Place, where they received a presentation about SAWA and the circular and sustainable elements in the 'Healthiest building in the Netherlands'. They then set to work themselves using second-hand materials they turned up in second-hand stores for their Circular Escape Room.

The delivery of the Escape Rooms took place on December 16 at the Lebanon Lyceum. Together with Geertjan Aleven Stichting Technotrend (the creators of the assignment), we received the Circular Escape Rooms. One group per class was selected to present the their Escape Room.

The first group had outlined the situation that SAWA's building plans had been stolen and we needed to find them as soon as possible. Another Escape room had the theme that an earthquake was in progress and we had to escape from SAWA quickly. Some of the puzzles were riddles, number codes, secret envelopes that we had to find and solve.

The presented Escape Rooms all brought attention to the circular aspects of the building, moreover, the puzzles were constructed from second-hand - circular - materials. With this, the themes of circularity and sustainability were well applied and Mark Compeer of Nice Developers was very impressed with the students' approach and result.