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Fall Mouse Squad Team Training Wrap-Up

On Saturday, November 16th, 13 Mouse Squads came to Fall Team Training at Manhattan’s Hudson High School of Learning Technologies. With 87 students present, this was one of our biggest and best Team Trainings ever!

We started off the day with a Social Scavenger Hunt before the opening ceremonies. As squads arrived at the event, they were broken up into 4 different teams: Green Godzillas, Orange Orcas, Pink Panthers and Yellow Yaks. For the first time, Coordinators had their own special group too: the Cobalt Coordinators! Everyone worked on challenges with members of other squads including creating a secret handshake and drawing Squad mascots. Once they completed every challenge, students got a Team Training button to keep.

The Opening Ceremonies began with the Great Mousemallow Skyscraper Challenge! Students and coordinators set out to build the tallest freestanding tower they could out of marshmallows and sticks on top of an upside down bucket.

After this exciting kick-off, students rotated through four different workshops (with a lunch break in between). At these workshops Squads learned about using mousesquad.org and CaseTracker, computer hardware basics, understanding and designing school computer networks, and leadership skills.

At the end of the day, students, coordinators and Mouse staff gathered together to close out Team Training with a raffle drawing and shout-outs to the most memorable people and moments of the day. The Super Techs from MS 328 won the raffle, receiving a $100 gift certificate to Best Buy to buy something cool for their squad!

We had so much fun at Team Training and were thrilled by the enthusiasm of all of our students and coordinators.

We want to give a special shout-out to Hudson High School for hosting us again and to members of Mouse Corps for being awesome facilitators on this important day.