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PORT-Able Learning Lab: Education that Moves

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The PORT-Able Learning Lab is a mobile, immersive game environment housed in a shipping container, bringing hands-on learning right to your school’s doorstep. Students explore STEM through immersive reality, interactive games, and collaborative challenges. Running our award-winning Breakout Box: Environmental Mission, students get a peek into the world of marine careers.

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We are now scheduling for the 2026-2027 school year! Learning Undefeated and the Port of Corpus Christi have teamed up to deliver unforgettable STEM experiences to schools in Nueces and San Patricio Counties! Click to request a visit for your school.

Are You a Teacher with a Visit Scheduled? Click here to see what you need to get ready.

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.

 

2026 – 2027 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
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Breakout Box: Environmental Mission

Work together to solve puzzles using a project file that was left behind by your intern supervisor.

Grade Level: 6-12

Subject: Environmental Science

Curriculum Unit: Earth and Human Activity

Breakout Box: Body Systems Mission
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Breakout Box: Body Systems Mission

Work together to solve puzzles using abandoned diabetes research to finish the project before time runs out and the alarm sounds.

Grade Level: Middle School (6 - 8)

Subject: Biology and Life Sciences

Curriculum Unit: From Molecules to Organisms

Chemical and Physical Changes Game
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Chemical and Physical Changes Game

In an immersive learning theater, student groups gather evidence to identify changes as either chemical reactions or physical changes.

Grade Level: Middle School (6 - 8)

Subject: Chemistry , Physical Science

Curriculum Unit: Matter and its Interactions

Engineering in Agriculture Game
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Engineering in Agriculture Game

In an immersive learning theater, student groups work together to solve problems on the farm.

Grade Level: Elementary School (K-5)

Subject: Engineering

Curriculum Unit: Engineering Design

2026 – 2027 Curriculum
PORT-Able Learning Classroom Activities

Floating Zoo
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Floating Zoo

In this design challenge, students will receive a problem from the story Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen. Students will engage in a STEM challenge to build a boat in 25 minutes that can float while holding the animal figures for a set amount of time without sinking.

Grade Level: K-2

Subject: Engineering

Curriculum Unit: Engineering Design

Coast to Coast: Maintaining Healthy Habitats

Coast to Coast: Maintaining Healthy Habitats

In this design challenge, students will work together to design a tool or process that successfully removes an invasive species from an ecosystem while minimizing harm to the native species and environment.

Grade Level: 3-5

Subject: Biology and Life Sciences , Engineering , Environmental Science

Curriculum Unit: Engineering Design

Renewable Innovators

Renewable Innovators

In this challenge, students will practice problem-solving and collaboration skills as they design, build, and test their wind turbine prototypes. Students will explore the role of renewable energy in powering communities, learn about energy transfer and mechanical systems, and gain insight into the importance of sustainable energy solutions.

Grade Level: 3-5

Subject: Engineering , Physics

Curriculum Unit: Energy , Engineering Design

Forces In Action
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Forces In Action

In this design challenge, students will act as engineers to build and test cranes that can lift and move payloads at a port. By applying Newton's Three Laws of Motion, students will explore how balance, force, and motion work together to create stable and efficient cranes.

Grade Level: Middle School (6 - 8)

Subject: Engineering , Physics

Curriculum Unit: Energy , Engineering Design , Forces and Interactions

Where Did the Sugar Go?
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Where Did the Sugar Go?

Students use a glucometer to test simulated patient blood samples taken before and after eating a meal.

Grade Level: 6-8

Subject: Biology and Life Sciences

Curriculum Unit: From Molecules to Organisms

Rescue and Design
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Rescue and Design

In this design challenge, students take on the role of biomedical engineers to design a prosthetic that helps an injured marine animal regain its ability to swim.

Grade Level: Middle School (6 - 8)

Subject: Biology and Life Sciences , Engineering

Curriculum Unit: Engineering Design

Acoustic Shields

Acoustic Shields

In this design challenge, students will take on the role of environmental engineers to design an innovative bubble curtain system that reduces underwater construction noise at the Port of LU.

Grade Level: High School (9 - 12)

Subject: Chemistry , Engineering , Environmental Science , Physics

Curriculum Unit: Engineering Design

Sprout Scouts

Sprout Scouts

In this activity, students will read the story "In a Garden" by Tim McCanna. They will learn about the life cycle of a plant, what seeds need to grow, and what keeps seeds from growing. They will then create their own seed house and watch their seeds sprout!

Grade Level: K-2

Subject: Biology and Life Sciences

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
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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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