FAST FACTS
About Learning Undefeated’s PORT-Able Learning Labs:
- Immersive career exploration for K-12 students built inside a 22-foot shipping container!
- Features our Breakout Box: Environmental Mission (30 minutes runtime) for up to 12 students at a time.
- Visits are at NO COST to schools thanks to our partnership with the Port of Corpus Christi!
- Average length of visit is 1 – 2 weeks per school.
- Built on Learning Undefeated’s Drop Anywhere Labs platform.
- Also runs our award-winning game suite: Body Systems Mission, Chemical & Physical Changes, and Agriculture.
2025 – 2026 Curriculum
Onboard PORT-Able Learning Lab Experiences
The PORT-Able Learning Lab offers immersive learning and classroom experiences for grades K-12. Inside the lab, students explore science, technology, engineering, and math through immersive reality, interactive games, and collaborative challenges. The onboard experience is accompanied by classroom activities.
These activities provide authentic, real-world learning co-developed with teachers and STEM industry subject matter experts. The in-classroom program provides instructors, plus all necessary supplies, equipment, and technology. All activity handouts and materials will be provided at the teacher pre-visit.
Breakout Box: Environmental Mission
Grades 9-12
The Port of Corpus Christi’s Environmental Mission takes high school students on an immersive adventure using computational thinking and the practices of science and engineering to crack a series of puzzles to help the Environmental Team decide on mitigations for a new client site. From the moment they step inside this custom-built 22-foot shipping container, students experiment with augmented reality, game-based learning, and touchscreen walls, building their critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Breakout Box: Body Systems Mission
Grades 6-8
The Breakout Box: Body Systems Mission takes middle school students on an immersive adventure using computational thinking and the practices of science and engineering to crack a series of puzzles to restore lost data in the abandoned Drop Anywhere Lab. Through progressive gameplay, students work as a team to analyze and interpret data in a cardiovascular simulation, selecting food, exercise, and insulin options to manipulate blood glucose concentration in diabetic and non-diabetic patients over time. Students also analyze and interpret data as they learn about concentration using plasma vials, interpreting graphs, and supporting a claim with reasoning and evidence.
Chemical & Physical Changes
Grades 4-8
Is this a chemical or physical reaction? How do you know? In this game, students watch a reaction and collect information to decide, making claims and using evidence to form arguments as to whether a presented reaction was a physical or chemical change. The experience uses projection mapping and interactive screens to provide students with an immersive game experience.
Engineering in Agriculture
Grades K-3
Students explore topics from seasons, weather, and ecosystem management through the lens of the engineering design process. Through interactive gameplay and team collaboration, students help a farmer to solve a few of the problems they’ve encountered. As a group, students decide on which solution(s) to implement, keeping in mind their constraint (budget) and their criteria (goal). The experience uses projection mapping and interactive screens to provide students with an immersive game experience.
2025 – 2026 Curriculum
PORT-Able Learning Classroom Activities
Kindergarten – 2nd Grade Activities
- Floating Zoo
Inspired by Who Sank the Boat?, students become engineers and build a boat that can hold animal figures without sinking — with bonus points for holding a horse too! - Grow a Garden
After hearing a story, students plant their own seed gardens and learn about the plant life cycle from sprout to harvest.
Grades 3 – 5 Activities
- Coast to Coast: Maintaining Healthy Habits
Students explore ecosystems by removing invasive species and then design tools to restore ecological balance. - Renewable Innovators: Wind Turbine Blades
Students design and build wind turbines capable of harnessing wind energy to lift a small weight, learning about sustainable energy in the process.
Grades 6 – 8 Activities
- Forces in Action: Crane Design
Students design prosthetic limbs to help injured animals regain mobility using the engineering design process. - Where Did the Sugar Go?
Students explore how sugar moves through the body and how diabetes is managed through meal planning, monitoring, and exercise in interactive stations. - Rescue and Design:
Engineering meets compassion as students design mobility solutions for injured animals at a rescue center.
Grades 9 – 12 Activities
- Acoustic Shields:
Students tackle underwater construction noise pollution by designing a bubble curtain for a port, applying real-world gas laws and presenting their solutions. - Plastic Patrol:
Students engineer a trash skimmer attachment for a 3D-printed boat to combat plastic pollution and restore a coastal city’s marine ecosystem.
Our Partnership with Port of Corpus Christi
We will help students build the problem-solving and critical thinking skills needed for the jobs of tomorrow. Unique, hands-on learning gives students the confidence needed to succeed in STEM careers.
STEM includes both traditional pathways such as engineering to careers that keep the Port running such as accounting, communications, IT, and human resources. The list is endless! And we’ve got nearly a hundred thousand local jobs waiting for these innovators of tomorrow.
Learn More About Port of Corpus Christi Careers
Our STEM engineers worked together today to build a dock for large ships to enter our port while saving the sea turtles and beautifying our community. They “escaped” being over budget and exceeding the construction timeline to earn gold shield status as the best engineering team. Tomorrow, we mix the teams and increase the difficulty of the challenge with better designed materials, less environmental and community impacts, and lower the budget to escape sea turtle disaster and earn higher gold shield status!!"
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