[game_edu] Service learning ideas??

[Rafael Fajardo]

Hello Peter,
there may be a way to partner with a non-profit such that a Game For Change can be created/prototyped that works to raise awareness of the issue addressed by that non-profit.

There are significant challenges to make a genuine game that is respectful of the issue. 

There may be a challenge inherent in the development environment too. I have a decade-old memory of a student being unable to remove the weapon from the hand of the the player-character in the Unreal engine. 

Another approach would be to have your students mentor others who are under-represented in the game development field on game development. This, too, would involve a partnership worked out in advance. This would provide a service to the field, as well as a being virtuous.

I hope you find a workable solution.
paz,
Rafael Fajardo



On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Peter Border <pborder at msbcollege.edu> wrote:


> Hi folks:

> 

> I have a kind of weird problem going on here and would welcome some help with it. It turns out that my

> UnrealEd class has a service learning component in the syllabus, left over from some earlier administrator. 

> So now I need to find some project which will meet the (rather loose)

> requirements of service learning, or we could all troop off to package food at Feed My Starving Children 

> (http://www.fmsc.org/).

> 

> In the past I have had people work on projects for the STEM Game Design Challenge, but that doesn't start again until

> next year. There was a Healthy Eating contest out of the White House a few years ago, but it seems to be gone now.

> 

> Does anyone know of any other similar contest that's going on now?

> 

> Peter Border

> Game and Application Design Chairman

> Globe University/Minnesota School of Business

> 1401 West 76th St

> Richfield, MN 55423

> pborder at msbcollege.edu

> 

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