game design

Allison Mishkin: Reflections on 15 Years of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center

by Allison Mishkin
March 6, 2023

I started working at the Cooney Center out of college and grew to be the Research and Program Manager for the National STEM Video Game Challenge—a role that took me

The “Learnification” of Gaming

by David Kleeman
July 7, 2022

Roblox is the only example I can think of when I was a child that was open world with endless possibilities, as limited as it was in 2008, it was

Learning About How Families Connect Learning Across Boundaries

by Sarah Vaala, PhD
July 2, 2019

This summer, my High Point University colleagues and I are hosting a video game camp with twenty 9- to 11-year-olds in our local Boys and Girls Club. Across a series

Podcast Transcript: The App Fairy Talks to Toca Boca

by Carissa Christner
September 14, 2018

This partial transcript of the App Fairy podcast has been edited for length and clarity. Carissa Christner: Today I’m very excited to bring to you an interview with Caroline Ingeborn of

Family Coding Night with English-Language Learning Families

by Rahul Banerjee
March 19, 2018

Imagine a room full of families gathered together around laptops. They’re making animations and games using computer programming. Many of the children or their parents are pointing at or touching

The STEM Challenge Inspires a New Career Path

by Sloane Grinspoon
May 22, 2017

Last summer, I had the pleasure of interning with the team behind the National STEM Video Game Challenge. While working with the Cooney Center, I helped create and publish online content

Meet the Winners: Caleb Koo

by Katy Svehaug
November 14, 2016

“I’ve always been interested in crafting stories,” says Caleb Koo, a 15-year-old from Galena, Ohio. “And telling stories through a video game is very easy.” Caleb designed Conquering the Underworld,

Meet the Winners: Elisha Azaria

by Katy Svehaug
November 14, 2016

Aspiring programmer Elisha Azaria, 13, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania learned about the National STEM Video Game Challenge from his father — whose work with artificial intelligence helped to inspire Elisha’s winning game

Meet the Winners: Kimberly Do

by Katy Svehaug
November 14, 2016

Kimberly Do, 16, has a deep fascination with outer space. An avid member of her school’s NASA Student Astronaut Challenge team, the Plant City, Florida native used cosmological interest to

Meet the Winners: Shrey Pandya and Lucas Armand

by Katy Svehaug
November 14, 2016

When Shrey Pandya, 13, of Exton, Pennsylvania and Lucas Armand, 14, of Malvern, Pennsylvania set out to create their own fast-paced first person shooter game, they were determined to come

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