Global Challenge Studio
Guided challenges for grades 9–12 that build adapting, teamwork, fair choices, and leadership through real-life team challenges.
Skills Students Build
Skills students grow in every Curveball Lab challenge.
Adapting
Handling it well when plans, situations, or ideas change.
Teamwork
Working well with all kinds of people toward a shared goal.
Fair Choices
Thinking about who a choice affects, the trade-offs, and what is right.
Seeing Other Views
Understanding and using different points of view and experiences.
Communication
Explaining your reasons, your facts, and your ideas clearly.
Leadership
Guiding a team through tough, unclear moments with confidence and honesty.
Teacher Involvement
Facilitation Support
Teachers lead the challenges with full training and lesson guides. The Curveball Lab gives you the challenge materials, scorecards, and training to help teachers grow.
Accessibility & Learner Support
All materials are made to work for everyone. Challenges can be changed to fit different reading levels, languages, and learning needs.
A Challenge Students Might Face
A made-up scenario that shows how a school team works through a Global Challenge Studio unit.
Cutting Cafeteria Food Waste
A team of four students in a grade 10 class is asked to design a six-week plan to cut food waste in the school cafeteria, working within a small budget and with the kitchen staff’s schedule.
Halfway through, a new allergy policy removes several popular menu items. The team has to rethink their plan, listen to the kitchen staff and students affected, and explain their new choices.
This is an example that uses made-up details to show how a school challenge works.
What the teacher does in the same challenge
The teacher guides, but does not give answers. Here is how that looks across the stages of the food-waste challenge above.
Sets up the challenge, shares the lesson guide, and asks questions that push the team to research before deciding.
Releases the curveball at the right moment and keeps the team calm, so they treat the change as a problem to solve, not a setback.
Checks that the team weighs trade-offs fairly and records the reasons behind each new choice on their scorecards.
Leads the group reflection, gives feedback on the lessons learned, and helps each student set a plan to use the skill again.
This is an example that uses made-up details to show a teacher’s role. Full training and lesson guides are provided.