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🏆 We did it!

We’re incredibly proud to share that Reactor Rescue by Labbox Education has won the 2026 GEE! Award for Best Analog Learning Game! 🎉 The GEE! Awards recognize excellence in educational game design and are judged by international experts in game-based learning.

https://www.geeawards.com/blog/analog2026

This award means so much to us because Reactor Rescue represents everything we believe learning should be: hands-on, playful, and deeply engaging.

Reactor Rescue | 2026 Analog Game Winner — GEE! Learning Game Awards Judging the analog category alongside other digital educational games attunes you to the specificity of what physical games can bring to the table. Analog games have a number of general strengths: they don’t become unusable because of an OS update, they bring people face to face with one another, ...

BIG news from the Lab!
Reactor Rescue is officially a FINALIST for the 2026 GEE! Learning Game Awards!
https://www.geeawards.com/

The GEE! Awards - named for Dr. James Paul Gee, widely considered the founding scholar of games-for-learning - are judged by international experts against a serious standard: does the game empower learners, create problems worth solving, and build deep understanding?

An independent panel looked at Reactor Rescue and said YES! And we are sooo incredibly proud of this! This validation belongs to everyone who got us here: the backers who funded us, the families who playtested, and the team behind it. Thank you all.

Two ways to be part of what's next:
🗳️ People's Choice voting is open to everyone (one vote per person): https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Cpi9pwo8fjz5dQ

📦 Pre-orders are open: https://reactor-rescue.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Winners will be announced on July 9th at the Play Make Learn conference.

Congratulations to our fellow finalists, it's an honor to be in your company!

It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN!

Our Kickstarter campaign ends in 45 hours and we are so incredibly grateful to the almost 2,000 backers who joined our mission!

This is your last chance to be the first to get Reactor Rescue — the board game that turns you into space engineers fixing a failing spacecraft by building real circuits.

Join the mission, and experience what it is to be a true engineer!

Reactor Rescue: The Board Game Where You Build Real Circuits Race to repair your spacecraft by building real electronic circuits.Collect resources, outsmart opponents, and save the city of Electra

Reactor Rescue just got featured on Hackster.io — one of the biggest platforms in the maker and engineering community.

The headline says it all: "This Board Game Teaches Real Engineering Skills."

When we set out to build Reactor Rescue, that was the dream — a game where you're not pretending to build circuits, you're actually building them. Motors, lights, sensors, switches — all real, all on your table.

Seeing Hackster.io recognise that means the world to us.
Check out the full article here:
https://www.hackster.io/news/this-board-game-teaches-real-engineering-skills-53171d2790a1
Our Kickstarter is live now — link in the comments!

This Board Game Teaches Real Engineering Skills Master electronics by building real circuits in Reactor Rescue, a high-stakes board game that turns engineering into a space-age race.