Boss Level at Quest schools is a two-week intensive school-wide collaboration that closes out the trimester, where students work in teams to solve a difficult design challenge bringing together everything they’ve learned in all their classes. The term Boss Level is borrowed from video games, where, at the end of a level, players prove what they’ve learned by doing battle with a Boss, a character that synthesizes and embodies all the challenges contained in that level.
This December, Boss Level for sixth-graders at Quest to Learn required them to build a Rube Goldberg machine. Each team’s machine had to achieve a different task–such as turning the page of a book or feeding the school’s pet turtle. Here’s a photo gallery of what they came up with.
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