MacGyver-ing 104

Week One: Introduction

In this class students will be using cleaning fluid, a telescope, moth balls, rope, a pulley and handlebars, create a rocket-powered harpoon gun/zip line.

Week Two: Survival Techniques

Students will use candlesticks, a microphone cord, and rubber mat, to create a defibrillator.

Week Three: First Assessment

Building on the techniques developed in weeks one and two, students will create a hot air balloon from homemade glue, random scraps of nylon, a metal shed and gas canisters. Once onboard the hot air balloon, each student will be given twenty minutes to turn a blood pressure cuff, stethoscope and alarm clock into a functioning lie detector.

Week Four: Russia Field Trip

Students will travel to the Baikal Mountains in Siberia where they will be given a sleeping bag, vodka and a tank of oxygen. Using these items students will create two snow-destroying bombs – the first two create an avalanche, the second to escape said avalanche.

Week Five: Escape Techniques

Held in a Siberian prison, each student will be smuggled a package of rocks, twine and rosary beads and instructed to create a time-delayed rock catapult. Students will use the catapult to knock unconscious three prison guards to gain entrance into a storage room. From within the storage room students will find batteries, an electric mixer, rubber bands, a serving cart and half a suit of armour from which to make a motorized heat-seeking gun decoy. Deploying the gun decoy, students will make their way through to the officers’ kitchen to obtain a heating duct pipe, wood crate, nylon strap, trash can, whisky, and matches. These items will be used to create a steel-door-shattering-beer-keg-torpedo to bust through the prison wall.

Week Six: Final Exam

Students will be held in a windowless concrete room sealed by a locked vault door. To pass the final exam students will be required to escape the room using a rubber band and puddle of water.