On Saturday, November 14th, 62 students from 9 Mouse Squads across New York City came to Fall Team Training at Manhattan’s Hudson High School of Learning Technologies.

Team Training kicked off with a Social Scavenger Hunt before the opening ceremonies. As squads arrived they were split up into 4 different teams: Green Godzillas, Orange Orcas, Pink Panthers and Yellow Yaks. 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.

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.

Then they found their squads and went to four different workshops: Hardware, Leadership, Webmaker and GreenTECH. Through the course of these workshops students opened up computers, played leadership games, learned about computer code and where energy comes from!

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. Two schools won GreenTECH kits for their schools!

Team Training was so much fun! We 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!!