As one of five finalists in the US Department of Education’s EdSim Challenge, an educational version of The Irregular is being developed to address components of the CTE Career Clusters and exercise employability skills.

The Irregular is a framework for episodic content. Each episode will focus on a narrow field of STEM career skills, and all episodes will exercise employability skills, such as applied academic skills, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, information use, and systems thinking.

In a group setting, students engage in the clue analysis activity together; developing communication, and interpersonal and leadership skills, as they collaboratively strive to solve the mystery.

Through this clue analysis process students individually demonstrate reasoning and independent research skills, as well as theory validation techniques.