Breakout Box Lab
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This lab lets students explore the world of high-paying and high-demand manufacturing careers! Inside Learning Undefeated’s award-winning Breakout Box immersive learning experience, students will explore skills and competencies needed to be successful in the manufacturing jobs of tomorrow. Classroom Ready Curriculum kits offer deep-impact career exploration and cool tools for teachers.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it? Infiltrate a manufacturing facility to manufacture affordable and sustainable sunglasses for everyone!
Our new Breakout Box mobile lab is the flagship component of the Manufacture Your Path program
This deep impact learning program that equips students with knowledge and resources about high-demand careers and learn-and-earn opportunities in their community. This program is FREE to schools and includes a TEKs aligned hands-on technology based experience that introduces students to manufacturing concepts.
Manufacture Your Path is made of three elements:
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Breakout Box Manufacturing Mission
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Manufacturing Night Events
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Classroom Activities: Design for Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, and Metrology
FAST FACTS
About the Manufacture Your Path Breakout Box:
- The Mission? Infiltrate a manufacturing facility to manufacture affordable and sustainable sunglasses for everyone.
- The world’s first-ever heist themed manufacturing career education experience!
- Format: Expandable pod, 560 square feet inside
- Built in 2025, reaches 10,000 students every year!
- Secret weapon: Party Lights Button (and we push it!!)
- Holds 30 students per class
Check out our Manufacturing Classroom Activities!
Metrology: The Science of Measurement
Design for Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
I can make it better! Student teams have the chance to speed up production, improve quality, and optimize the flow of materials and labor.
Safety vests mean we’re on the job! Each student session begins with a safety briefing, just like they would have on the real manufacturing floor.
At the maintenance station, students keep the machines humming so that all the parts of the manufacturing line move together in perfect synch.
Using the touch tables, students lay out sunglasses parts for the CNC machine, which triggers activity challenges for other teams along the manufacturing line.
Every component of this vehicle was custom built at Learning Undefeated Customs, our workshop and tech playground space outside of Dallas. Here, CIO Jen Colvin shows off the touchscreen tables she built for the lab.
“I used to think manufacturing was boring” is the best thing we can hear. Combining lighting and tech elements gives teams a playful environment where they can flex and grow their skills.
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades. Learning Undefeated’s experience design team brings the ideas, the technical know-how, plus the right amount of cool.
Working together, the inventory station is the heartbeat of the manufacturing line. Students juggle raw material assets to fulfill customer orders in time to meet the deadline.
We’re proud of this one! The newest vehicle in our fleet, we purpose-built this to combine the best ideas from over 20 years on the road.
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Let’s Talk Tech. This Lab has Everything!
- Ten Student Stations with 65” Viewsonic Touch Displays
- Two 55” Custom Built Touch Tables
- Android Tablets
- Arduino R4 Wifi Boards with Controllers
- Custom Gobo Lighting System
- Dolby Surround Sound
What’s the difference between the Breakout Box vehicle and the Breakout Box game?
Good question. Students loved our Breakout Box games so much, we made a special vehicle just to run them! This vehicle runs Learning Undefeated’s Breakout Box 2.0 mission series.
EXPLORE THE MISSIONS:
Breakout Box 2.0: Manufacturing Challenge
*Available Now!* Grades 9 – 12
In a world where sunglasses are not just a matter of fashion but a necessity for survival, participants will embark on an immersive adventure filled with intrigue, hazards, and reward. The Mission: infiltrate a manufacturing facility that has been monopolized by Evil Eye Corp. to manufacture affordable and sustainable sunglasses for the masses.
The Breakout Box: Manufacturing Challenge takes high school students on a 35-minute immersive adventure where they apply computational thinking and problem-solving to successfully run an eyewear manufacturing facility. From the moment they step inside the custom-built immersive learning pod, students will experiment with game-based learning to build their critical thinking, collaboration, and manufacturing skills. Participants will control and manipulate different areas throughout the manufacturing process including scheduling, inventory, machine operations, quality control, maintenance, and distribution.
Students will collaborate to overcome disruptions to each process area to meet their goals. By the end of the experience, students will be able to understand the manufacturing process and the importance of teamwork. Students will walk away with a resource card to discover local manufacturing opportunities including high school pathways, internships, and entry level career options.
- Onboard Game Capacity: up to 30 participants
- Recommended Grade Levels: 9-12
- Experience Runtime: 35 minutes
- TEKs aligned
Breakout Box 2.0: Biomanufacturing Challenge
*Available Now!* Grades 9 – 12
Welcome to the front lines of biotechnology. Participants will step into the role of a new technician at a state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility. The Mission: a partner site has gone down, and a batch of cancer-fighting antibodies is stuck mid-process. With 50 patients counting on this treatment, it’s up to you to finish the job.
The Breakout Box: Biomanufacturing Mission takes high school students on a 45-minute immersive adventure where they are trained on how cells are grown to produce therapeutics and learn how they are purified in a safe and sterile manner using aseptic technique. Participants will learn the rules, standards, and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) that technicians must follow to get a treatment from the laboratory to patients.
Participants will practice and understand the roles of upstream and downstream manufacturing processes in making a biologic, and practice CGMP such as documentation and verification.
- Onboard Game Capacity: up to 30 participants
- Recommended Grade Levels: 9-12
- Experience Runtime: 45 minutes
- TEKs aligned
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