Future Thing

Mystery Box Game Show for the Future
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Surprise!

Mystery Box

Future Thing is a fast-paced, team-based design challenge where students open a mystery box of materials and respond to a surprise prompt. In just 30 minutes, teams collaborate to design and build a solution—turning simple materials into bold ideas.

Critical Thinking

This experience is part of the Mission Zero framework, where students act as Futurists, exploring real-world challenges through creativity, critical thinking, and rapid prototyping.

Futurist in Training

“Today you didn’t just build something… you practiced thinking like a Futurist.”

Richard

Futurist Educator
Founder of GiFT California and Fused Learning, LLC, Richard Tavener is an Emmy®-award winning documentary film producer of Imagine It™ and multimedia curriculum for teachers to integrate the process of creative and critical thinking in the classroom.