Students will investigate, redesign, and manage classic games to answer: How can we redesign classic games so everyone can participate, compete fairly, and stay engaged? Teams will break this challenge into rules, safety, scheduling, wellness, data, and communication tasks, then establish measurable criteria and constraints. They will use digital models, playtests, and performance data to evaluate trade-offs, refine game systems, and design a simple device that reduces collision forces. Through shared leadership and reflection, students will create and run a fair, inclusive tournament.

Students will answer, “How can we redesign classic games so everyone can participate, compete fairly, and stay engaged?” They will break this challenge into manageable problems, define measurable criteria and constraints, and collaboratively design, test, and refine inclusive rules and scoring systems. Students will use digital simulations and gameplay data—including participation, heart rate, workload, strategy, and sportsmanship—to evaluate trade-offs involving safety, fairness, reliability, and engagement. They will apply force and collision concepts to design and assess a protective device or game-equipment modification, then communicate evidence-based recommendations, incorporate feedback, and reflect on their leadership and learning.

Teams will create a design brief responding to “How can we redesign classic games so everyone can participate, compete fairly, and stay engaged?” with measurable criteria and constraints for safety, fairness, participation, and cost. They will produce tested game rules, an inclusive scoring system, a tournament schedule, dynamic warmups, and a spreadsheet-based simulation modeling how rule or scoring changes affect standings and participation. Teams will also prototype and safely test a low-cost padding or barrier device that reduces force on equipment during simulated collisions without using people as test subjects. Final products will include a playable redesigned game, performance and sportsmanship data displays, media highlights, and a presentation defending revisions and trade-offs using evidence from playtests and peer feedback.

Open with two brief rounds of a familiar game: first using standard rules, then using one student-selected modification, with rotating roles as players, observers, referees, and data trackers. Students record participation, possession, engagement, and safe-contact concerns, then compare how the rule change affected fairness and play. Teams identify criteria and constraints—including safety, access, competitiveness, equipment, and time—and propose one further redesign, including a boundary or protective feature that reduces collision forces. Close with: “How can we redesign classic games so everyone can participate, compete fairly, and stay engaged?”

Host a Game of Games Expo where teams run an inclusive modified-game demonstration for classmates, families, coaches, or school leaders. Each committee presents its rules, scoring system, safety device or barrier, and computer model showing how proposed changes affect participation, fairness, engagement, workload, and collision forces. Visitors rotate through game stations, review performance data and media highlights, and provide feedback using the teams’ prioritized criteria and constraints. Teams conclude by answering, “How can we redesign classic games so everyone can participate, compete fairly, and stay engaged?” and identifying the trade-offs that shaped their final design.