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My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part One: Are there jobs out there?
Pittsburgh gaming companies are gaining momentum Tim Ferris’s recent blog “How to Build an App Empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?” describes Chad Muerta’s story. Recovering from a car...
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My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part Two: What type of training or...
Added April 2014: I am pleased to announce the Grow a Generation Game Design Master series in Scratch Programming for kids as young as 8 and teens new to programming. Find out more. My fourteen year...
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My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part Three: Develop a Portfolio
A unanimous sentiment of our the co-authors is “The biggest, most important piece of advise I can give anyone interested in making games for a living is to start making games now.” A college degree is...
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Games for Change 2012
I enjoyed an incredible lunch Monday sponsored by The Sprout Fund with Nikki Navta of Zulama and Todd Keruskin of Elizabeth Forward School District at spoke at a lunch & learn at Sprout offices...
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The Biggest Story Problem – A New Documentary
I was given a chance to preview a new documentary film on the state of math education in the United States, The Biggest Story Problem: Why America’s Students are Failing at Math. The film opens with...
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Augmented Reality
“Run! Run from the dragon as fast as we can!” When my children were very little, so little their little legs moved quick but traveled slow and their attention was enraptured by every pebble, line and...
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Games for Change Opening Keynote and Going Beyond the Common Core
Michael Jones, chief technology advocate at Google, gave the opening keynote at the 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival. Michael was the chief technologist of Google Maps, Earth, and Local...
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My Child Wrote Code?
I took Grow a Generation to a recent Zumbathon fundraiser for the Yellow Ribbon Girls. Several kids meandered over to the table while the moms were working out. I invited them to play around with the...
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The Radix Endeavor: A Video Game Being Used for High School STEM subjects
I spend a few hours this morning playing The Radix Endeavor, a game designed to help high school teachers lead and assess their students in the content areas of biology, algebra, geometry and...
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Summer Camp Registration Open
Grow a Generation is holding some exciting Camps at Baden Academy this summer! SUMMER CAMPS @ BADEN ACADEMY Mon-Fri, Jun 16-20 9:30-3:00 History of Robotics(Grades 3-8) Are you ready for the Google...
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Making Meaningful Games: Firefighter Firefight
A programming and game design team of Jr. High Students at the Engineer Your Passion Workshop created a game to highlight the Cranberry Community Chest Volunteer Firefighter Initiative. The students...
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STEM Video Game Challenge
Announcing the STEM Video Game Challenge 6 week workshop to be help this Spring at the CWNC Create Lab! 9th-12th grade students are invited to be learn the elements of game design and be introduced to...
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Making Meaningful Games: Firefighter Firefight
A programming and game design team of Jr. High Students at the Engineer Your Passion Workshop created a game to highlight the Cranberry Community Chest Volunteer Firefighter Initiative. The students...
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STEM Video Game Challenge
Announcing the STEM Video Game Challenge 6 week workshop to be help this Spring at the CWNC Create Lab! 9th-12th grade students are invited to be learn the elements of game design and be introduced to...
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Making Meaningful Games: Firefighter Firefight
A programming and game design team of Jr. High Students at the Engineer Your Passion Workshop created a game to highlight the Cranberry Community Chest Volunteer Firefighter Initiative. The students...
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STEM Video Game Challenge
Announcing the STEM Video Game Challenge 6 week workshop to be help this Spring at the CWNC Create Lab! 9th-12th grade students are invited to be learn the elements of game design and be introduced to...
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