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Engaging Activities For School Cohorts
Laser tag is an innovative way to build camaraderie, especially for schools with large cohorts of students.
The first laser tag games were inspired by the original Star Wars movie.
Like Star Wars, Laser tag has come far since the 1970s. In fact, both laser tag games and the Star Wars franchise remain popular.
With successful re-boots on streaming services like “Andor” and “The Mandalorian”, Teachers and Educators can engage students by incorporating pop-culture into their next team building activity. In the latest Disney installment, the characters of “Andor” stage a robbery on an outpost of the Galactic Empire.
With the technological innovations of Laser Tag in a Box, Teachers and Educators can leverage this story-line on campus.
They can immerse a large group of students in a live-action game of “Heist” with a bit of sci-fi inspiration.
Laser Tag is “high tech” hide-and-seek.
Fun laser tag games can be played indoors or outdoors. Players tag each other by using an infrared beam, just like a TV remote, but bigger!
Since there are no projectiles (the laser taggers only emit light) this means the taggers are harmless and eye safe.
The laser taggers are easy to use.
For example, Teachers and Educators can set the equipment to run a timed game.
This ensures that the event for the students will end on time, allowing staff to keep to a schedule. There are cool light and sound effects. When a student tags an opponent the laser tag system makes a sound effect, like “Tagged!” or “De-activated” or even “You’re De-activated, Return to Base.”
Plus, the equipment has red and blue lights. This helps the students know which players are on which team. It adds to the thrill. And you can build this into the narrative of the story.
The rentals offered by Laser Tag in a Box combine active play with an interactive, collaborative story. Students can immerse themselves in the game-play, learning valuable skills while still having fun. The narrative can be intertwined with elements of popular sci-fi franchises, like Star Wars, to really engage the players.
This way, the students get engaged in the game-play. "When the kids had a story-line, a background as to why they were trying to take this hill then they got really engaged,” said Mark McKinney, school camp educator.
Building on the popularity of the movies like “Star Wars” even a large cohort can get engaged.
The students can be challenged to participate, as a team. The laser tag game “Heist” challenges the players to grab as much virtual cash as they can.
Laser Tag encourages the students to collaborate.
Working together as a team to achieve their objective. The students win, or lose, as a team.
According to Byers & Crocco, "Educators have come to embrace the pedagogical potential of role-playing games... RPGs are simply fun, offering highly-engaging mechanics, settings, and themes, but also a gratifying change to socialize with other people. [They offer] active participation rather than passive consumption of entertainment by spectators."
Note, the larger the group, the less complicated the game’s backstory needs to be.
The student group is divided into roughly two equal teams. A great way to do this is by keeping students in their sporting houses.
Because Laser Tag in a Box rents the equipment for an entire day, Teachers and Educators can have each house play each other. At the end of the day, tally up each team's wins and you'll have the winning house!
Once the round-robin teams are set, the next thing to do is to explain the game to the students.
Teachers and Educators can play our briefing video from our YouTube channel, or simply read the script provided.
Next, the staff will want to set up three props, also known as, Utility Boxes. Two of them should be placed to the northern and southern end of the playing area. When you switch on the box, you'll pick a "Vault" on the menu. With your third and final box, you'll want to place this in the centre of the playing area. This one will be set as a “Money Drop”.
The idea behind this mission is for each team to collect virtual cash and deposit it in their team's vault.
The virtual money can be collected three ways:
The victorious team is the one with the most money in their “vault” at the end of the mission. This mission scales well. The team at Laser Tag in a Box has run events with more than 100 players at once! It is easy to run with a group of 16 students (8 on the red team and 8 on the blue team). Planning a Party for Teens?
Rent Royale Taggers in a Set of 16 (lasertag.com.au). Schools can also book a rental for groups for 20 or 30 playing at once.
These Laser Tag rentals include 3 utility box props. These props come pre-set with two utility boxes set as re-activation / team vault bases, and one utility box set as a money drop box.
It is recommended that each team should start out of sight of one another.
This offers an element of exploration for the cohort. The game is designed with unlimited re-activations for the entire game. This guarantees that every student plays the entire time. Each team victory is important. While the entire team shares each victory, Teachers and Educators can reward the most valuable player with a laser tag trophy.
Pop-culture inspiration, like the stories from Disney’s “Andor,” are a great way to engage a large cohort of students.
By renting a do-it-yourself laser tag set from Laser Tag in a Box, Teachers and Educators can immerse a large group of students in a sci-fi story.
Laser Tag is a fun way to build trust and friendship among a student cohort.
It’s a way to really engage the students in a narrative that they can relate to.
Laser games offer a way for the students to really explore the playing area with a clear objective. And a way for the school houses to feel achievement by winning for their team.
Source: The Role-Playing Society - Essays on the Cultural Influence of RPGs, Andrew Byers & Francesco Crocco (ED) 2016 - https://www.amazon.com/Role-Playing-Society-Essays-Cultural-Influence/dp/0786498838
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