Cool Designs from NYC Spring Family Science Sessions

This spring, New York City studio ran four different 5-week Family Science sessions with our partner schools. In these sessions, families learned abou...

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The Fluid Ether is Live!

This week, we finally released the second version of our physics simulation app! The Fluid Ether is a physics simulation game. You can find it in the ...

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A n00b guide to achievements in games

I’m a big believer in learning from history. Educational badging is derived from “achievements” in games, and so it seems useful to understand t...

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If a game is assigned as homework, is it still a game?

Ok, it’s two days after the event and I’m coming off the high that was the 10th Games for Change festival.  Admidst a storm of great ...

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Ananya Sen Gupta: A Reflection on Mentorship

About the Author: Ananya Sen Gupta MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spent sometime in the sof...

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Mentor Spotlight: Ozge Yeloglu

We sat down with amazing mentor Ozge Yeloglu of Halifax, Canada to hear about her mentorship story with her team The APPstronauts. Check out her story...

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Iridescent at Emoti-Con! NYC 2013

This Saturday, June 1st, Explainers and Technovation Challenge were two Iridescent programs among the presenters at the Emoti-Con! NYC Youth Digital M...

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Alumni Spotlight: Jasmine Gao

We sat down with Technovation 2011 Alumni, Jasmine Gao to catch up and see what she has been up since her with us as a Technovation Droidette. Jasmine...

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Badge based gamification: is this just the thing that education needs?

Before these trends get too overblown, I’d like to dissect and compare two terms that are on their way to becoming the next big thing in education: ...

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The costs to gamify education

In a previous post, I laid out what it means to gamify education (short answer is: incorporate best teaching practices).  If you read that post, ...

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Gamification and Education: the Core Principles

I always like to say the gaming industry has done in 30 years what the educational industry hasn’t been able to do in 300, namely make self-sust...

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Conceptualize, Protype, Remix, and Test Small!

It’s a great time to learn coding! Everyone from will.i.am to Chris Bosh to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook are stating the facts: software is now ...

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