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Projects

CAPED is committed to providing unique hands-on opportunities to students interested in the Themed Entertainment industry. Throughout each year, students are able to partake in a variety of projects that offer new skills and exposure to real-world practices.

Our Projects

Review CAPED's ongoing and past projects from these past few years! Projects are ordered from latest to oldest.

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Parkitecture 2026

January 2026 - Present

Dreamscape is a project designed to give students the opportunity to design and create a themed model land.

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Ride Engineering Competition 2026

October 2025 - Present

Dreamscape is a project designed to give students the opportunity to design and create a themed model land.

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Dreamscape 2025

April 2025 - Present

Dreamscape is a project designed to give students the opportunity to design and create a themed model land.

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DJ R-3X Animatronic Robot Build

November 2024 - Present

Under our INNOVENTIONS subdivision, students are working on designing, coding, and manufacturing a fully functional replica of DJ R-3X!

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Ride Engineering Competition 2025

October 2024 - April 2025

For the Ride Engineering Competition (REC) 2025 prompt, our REC team designed and engineered "Jukebox Joyride"!

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Parkitecture 2025

January - March 2025

CAPED designed and hosted the  Parkitecture 2025 competition! This competition invited students from different universities to design a themed animal enclosure up to industry standards and judged by industry professionals.

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PolyCon 2024 Escape Room

May - June 2024

In collaboration with PolyCon Gaming, CAPED designed and ran "Dry Spell: A Fantasy Escape Room"!

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Interactive Ride Project

April 2025 - June 2025

This project allows students to work in a virtual design environment, adopting the "blue sky" process to generate a scale model via 3D-printing, craft techniques, and manufacturing methods.

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PolyCon 2025 Escape Room

April 2025 - June 2025

CAPED is designing an escape room themed to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This project includes experience design, puzzle design, prop and set decoration, and fabrication.

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Ride Engineering Competition 2024

January - April 2024

"Chaos on Candy Mountain" implemented a unique twist with a ride vehicle turning mechanism controlling riders' views throughout the track layout, which won us 4th place!

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ASI Fright Fest Escape Room 2023

October 2023

​CAPED had the amazing opportunity to design an escape room for Cal Poly ASI's "Fright Fest" event for Halloween, which featured all sorts of themed puzzles!

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Ride Engineering Competition 2023

December 2022 - April 2023

"Jammin' Jungle Ride" won us 1st place in the nation! This project was a culmination of months of manufacturing and prototyping different materials and layouts.

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Ride Engineering Competition 2022

January 2022 - April 2022

REC 2022 had riders enter a drop tower and fall on their face towards a roller coaster run-out track!

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Dark Ride

2019 - 2021

Ever dreamed of creating your own theme park attraction? CAPED used storytelling and design techniques to create a fully-realized dark ride titled "Forced Into Perspective".

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Design Competition 2020

2020

In Spring 2020, CAPED hosted a virtual design competition that allowed other clubs to learn and participate in a 9 week long design competition.

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Dragon Animatronic Robot

October 2016 - June 2017

CAPED designed an animatronic baby dragon from clay to fully controlled mechanisms!

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