Mind Lab’s perspectives on successful enrichment programs, is that they can be inspired by captivating board games, that keep participants coming back for the next round of competition and pack friends and family in for the final Olympics sessions. Playing these multicultural, team and partner, board games builds academic skills such as: mathematics problem solving, use of spatial constructs, diagrams, documents, test sophistication skills, short response, extended response, literacy informational texts, cultural diversity awareness and beyond.