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School & PTA Programs
Turn Preparedness Into an Adventure
Bring an award-winning mobile escape room directly to your school!
Shaky Grounds Cafe combines immersive escape-room challenges with practical emergency preparedness education. Students and families work together, solve puzzles, and practice skills they can use during a real emergency—all through an experience they’ll actually remember.
CHOOSE YOUR EXPERIENCE
FAMILY PREPAREDNESS EVENT
An engaging addition to PTA family nights, safety fairs, STEM events, and community preparedness programs.
Families rotate through quick, hands-on preparedness challenges and leave with practical resources they can use at home. Add a Be 2 Weeks Ready presentation to turn the experience into a complete family preparedness program.
PREPAREDNESS MINI-GAMES
Fast-paced, 5–10-minute challenges designed for fairs, assemblies, and large events.
Participants solve three preparedness-themed puzzles while learning practical emergency skills. The short format keeps groups moving and allows us to engage hundreds of students and family members throughout an event.
FULL ESCAPE ROOM EXPERIENCE
Our complete, award-winning mobile escape room for groups of up to eight players at a time.
During each 30–60-minute game, participants explore a coffee shop damaged by a major Pacific Northwest earthquake. They must work together to solve more than 20 hands-on challenges inspired by real emergency situations.
Pair the game with a Be 2 Weeks Ready workshop or assembly to help participants connect what they experienced to actions they can take at home.
More Than Just a Game
Most preparedness education relies on lectures, handouts, and presentations. We take a different approach.
Participants first experience preparedness through hands-on challenges, teamwork, and problem-solving inside the Shaky Grounds Cafe mobile escape room. Then, through guided discussion and an optional Be 2 Weeks Ready presentation, we discuss the lessons learned while playing the game and help transform them into practical actions families can take at home.
Our lesson plan is grounded in our core game design principles:
Entertain ☞ Engage ☞ Explore ☞ Educate ☞ Empower
The Perfect Activity For:
✅ Middle Schools
• STEM and STEAM events
• Safety and preparedness programs
• After-school programs
• Student leadership groups
• PTA family engagement nights
• PTA & school fundraising events
• School and community preparedness fairs
✅ High Schools
• STEM and STEAM events
• Safety and preparedness programs
• Student leadership groups
• Life-skills and independent-living programs
• School clubs& fundraising events
• School staff team building
• School and community preparedness fairs
✅ Colleges & Universities
• New-student orientation
• Residence hall and campus-life programs
• Campus safety and preparedness events
• Student leadership programs
• Student organization fundraising events
• Emergency management and public-safety programs
• Preparing students to live independently or away from home
• Student and staff team building
WHAT PARTICIPANTS LEARN
Participants encounter practical preparedness topics such as:
• Emergency kits and supplies
• Water storage and treatment
• Utility shutoffs
• Emergency communication
• Fire safety
• Sanitation after a disaster
• Teamwork and problem-solving
• Preparing for a major Pacific Northwest earthquake
Why it works for schools & PTAs
🏆 Top 250 Escape Room Worldwide
🚚 Fully Mobile — We Come to You
👥 Great for Ages 12+
⚖️ Scalable Gameplay
🙌 Hands-on experiential learning
🎓 Supports STEM Learning
🧯 Real-world preparedness education
👨👩👧👧 Engages Students & Families
🏘 Meaningful Community Engagement
🎉 Makes Preparedness Fun & Memorable
💡 Inspires Action Beyond the Event
PROVEN IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
From school-day rotations to campus events and rural community tours, Shaky Grounds Cafe can be adapted to engage groups of different ages, sizes, and schedules.
• Kelly Creek Elementary School — Brought preparedness to life for approximately 48 students through eight hands-on, 30-minute escape-room sessions in a single school day.
• Portland State University — Created a weeklong campus experience featuring free preparedness mini-games and full 60-minute escape-room adventures.
• Walla Walla County Rural Library District — Toured rural communities throughout the county, providing free one-hour escape-room experiences for students and community members.
ADD THE “BE 2 WEEKS READY” PROGRAM
Turn the escape-room experience into an even more complete preparedness program with an optional workshop or assembly.
Based on the Oregon Department of Emergency Management’s Be 2 Weeks Ready framework, this approachable program helps students and families prepare to care for themselves following a major disaster.
Topics include food, water, sanitation, first aid, emergency planning, shelter, waste management, and staying informed. Participants can also receive take-home guides and checklists to keep the conversation going after the event.
The Be 2 Weeks Ready Program
Started in 2012 by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Be 2 Weeks Ready is a statewide preparedness program that helps families build simple, practical plans to care for themselves for at least two weeks after a disaster. It breaks preparedness into easy, manageable steps across key areas like food, water, sanitation and first aid.
PLANNING YOUR EVENT
• Recommended for ages 12 and older; younger players often do well when paired with a parent, teacher, or older student
• Up to eight players per full escape-room session
• Full games available in 30–60-minute formats
• Mini-games available in 5–10-minute formats
• Programs available throughout Oregon and Washington
• Programs start at $950, with custom pricing based on location, schedule, and format
Ready to Bring Shaky Grounds Cafe to Your School?
Tell us your location, preferred date, approximate attendance, and event goals. We’ll help you select the format that will work best for your school or PTA program.
📧 info@sidequestescapegames.com
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