Student Program
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The Scalable Game Design project supports community college & tribal college students through a grant by the National Science Foundation.
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Students will learn
- how to teach computer science through scalable game design
- how to guide students in designing and building games
- how to work with game design patterns
- how game design maps to the ISTE standards
- how to use the AgentSheets software
- Details
Students will receive
- a stipend of $20/hour
- travel and subsistence expenses
- support from research team, including lesson plans and other teaching material
- (optional) additional paid summer work on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder
- up to 3 University of Colorado (Boulder) ugrad or continuing education credits
Students will have to
- attend an all-expenses-paid week-long summer workshop at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Summer 2009 workshop is tentatively scheduled for June 1-12, 2009.
- help to teach a one-week motivational game-design module in a required (or "forced elective") computer education course using teaching material provided by research team
- help to teach a four-week in-depth game design module in an elective course using teaching material provided by research team
Students are encouraged to
- contribute to Game Wiki by improving existing teaching material and submitting new ones
Details
Week 1: Survey
Week 2: End of Course Survey
Application
- Student_application if you are interested in participating please fill out this form
- Teacher Training invitation presentation
