No Bullsh*t Sex Ed
In collaboration with the Queensland Education Departments, Universities and local Charities, No Bullsh*t Sex Ed proposes an immersive escape room experience that focuses on improving sexual health education. The space aims to encourage teamwork, problem-solving, and dynamic conversation reducing public stigma around sexual health topics in a fun and interactive workshop.
We hope to capture the interests and attention of students through non-traditional education tools and offer a variety of rooms according to age. Our students will receive a take-home pack with further resources and information to continue the learning experience and opportunities for conversation beyond the escape room space.
Our goal is to reduce public stigma about sexual health issues, increase open conversation and improve sexual experiences for the upcoming generations. To engage school-aged people and encourage better learning.
We conducted a survey on our own social media platforms; asking our participants to fill out a quick 10 minute survey. From our research, we defined the following opportunities for bettering education: Women’s health issues, domestic violence, sexual pleasure, healthy sexual relationships, diversity and equality, online sexual activity & healthy break-ups.
type
University group assignment
Year
2022
Role
illustrations
branding
Layout design
primary research (survey)
Survey result interpretation
Our branding was developed using bright colours and fun illustrations in order to appeal to our target audience. A custom, hand-drawn typeface was also developed for our logo.
To stay relevant and up to date with our students, we will have an Instagram platform. Designed to be engaging and aesthetically pleasing, we can keep the education current and give young people a trustworthy resource. Our team will respond to messages from students acting as a “hotline”.
We developed the two-part consent form for both student and parental consent purposes. This has been constructed to encourage the children to complete the form first before parents. This decision has been made as we want to give children a voice and express their own interest in attending our escape rooms.
In saying this, we want to make it clear that we completely respect the decision made by the parents, though ultimately want our target audience of children to have the first say.
We developed a range activity cards which will be the questions presented to the students in the escape rooms. The information within these cards was carefully researched and phrased appropriately for children within the target age group.
Each room has approximately five cards that students must answer to progress forward. The cards will also be included in our take-home packs so the children can continue the conversation and learning at home.
When arriving at No Bullshit Sex Ed, students enter our escape rooms and are taken to the preparation room for the activity introduction where they form teams. Students then take part in one of the three escape rooms which focuses on general health, sexuality, healthy relationships and puberty. Each escape room has three separate levels.
As students complete each level, they receive a key or pass to the next level before completing the entire pod. After completing all three levels students will be ushered into the debriefing room where the discussion will take place with the escape room team leader, continuing the conversation in a safe environment. Students may complete one, two, or three full experiences throughout their day at No Bullshit Sex Ed.
Our research uncovered the following:
Teachers discovered barriers with sensitive topics and were not equipped to teach things like trauma, consent, emotions, and feelings which may explain the lack of teaching around this topic. (Smith et al., 2011)
Teachers deliver sex education without external support. It also found that 16% of respondents had no training in teaching sexuality education and relied on in-house training. 1/3 of teachers did not assess their teaching against curriculum standards (Mitchell et al., 2011).
46% of our respondents stated that their primary source of information around sex ed was from their peers. But miseducated children teaching other children is likely to create some unfortunate outcomes.
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