Name: Mystery at the Movies
Start: 2024-07-15T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-15T17:30:00-05:00
Location: 1225 S. Willow Ave., Cookeville, TN, United States, Tennessee 38506

For kids:
Thirteen-year-old Koa volunteers at the local theater his parents recently purchased. He’s responsible for assisting his older brother, Keanu, the theater stage manager. Koa isn’t really confident about his new role, but his mother always reminds him that his name, Koa, means brave, strong, and courageous. In an outbreak of peculiar events, Koa quickly finds that his brother along with the performers, creative team, props, and costumes are missing and the show is set to air in only five days! Now Koa must exercise courage and bravery to recover the missing pieces and restore them to the theater in time for the show. Will you help Koa find the missing pieces and create a show that everyone will be excited to watch?
For parents:
In this series of challenges, your child will work through the steps of the creative writing process while developing the characters, setting, and plot for a movie. They’ll explore the elements of fiction and imagine, design, and create a movie based on their story. The activities are themed around the mystery at the movies, in which the main character of this quest must find all of the missing pieces at the theater before the show is set to air. The life skills presented in this challenge include problem solving, collaboration, sewing, and fabrication. The academic skills presented in this challenge include creative writing, elements of fiction, and figurative language (language arts), measurements and number sense (math), engineering design and movie making (science and technology), and the timeline of movies in history (social studies).
Ages 2-4 (5 spots available) Ages 5-7 (10 spots available) Ages 8-11 (15 spots available)
Ages 12+ can interview to be a volunteer and participate for free!
Contact us for more details at 931-341-9106 or [email protected]
Sibling and bulk discounts available. Ask us about our financial assistance program.
What is a challenge quest? A challenge quest focuses on 21st century skills such as problem solving, collaboration, outside-the-box and critical thinking, and innovation. This set of activities introduces a problem or mystery in a story-like journal and allows free exploration to discover new knowledge and to use tools in a different / new way. Challenges integrate academics with a child’s natural curiosity and creativity while teaching life skills via our Maker Lab Studios. Learners have an intrinsic desire to learn new things and gain new skills because we focus on one’s personal best. We encourage trying. We establish that mistakes are okay and we can learn from them. Learners build, deepen, or cement understanding by making. We define the learning goals and provide structure, scaffolds, and support for learners in the Challenge Quest Journal. We provide a Challenge Kit and sometimes an alias that aligns with the story characters.