G4C Learn
G4C Learn programs empower youth to become socially conscious digital storytellers, using game design to integrate STEAM skills with social emotional learning — including empathy, cooperation, communication, problem solving and systems thinking. G4C Learn professional development programs invite educators from schools, museums, and informal learning settings to harness the power of games and play in their curriculum. Educators leave G4C Learn courses as experts in merging their teaching content with games, game design, and design thinking.
Student Challenge
G4C Learn’s flagship program, the G4C Student Challenge, is an international game design competition inviting youth to create digital games inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The program uses youth interest in video games to develop their skills in coding, digital design, and other essential future-ready competencies. The Student Challenge amplifies student voices, empowers young people to imagine creative solutions to social problems, and enables them to see themselves as engaged citizens and changemakers. Since its launch in 2015, the Student Challenge provides professional development in game-based learning for educators, curriculum guides to open-source game-making platforms, in-school and after-school game-making courses, student game jams, mentorship and workshops led by game industry experts, and deep exploration into social impact themes with multimedia content provided by social impact focused partners. The program culminates in a game design competition through which students submit their original impact games and compete for prizes such as scholarships, technology, industry-related opportunities, and national recognition. Step into the G4C Student Challenge by learning to think like a game designer using G4C’s Intro to Game Design” curriculum. Check it out here.
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Game Exchange
Game Exchange uses games to build global connections through games and play. Like the Student Challenge, students and educators in this program are empowered to become creators and change agents. Past Game Exchange programs have engaged students in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and the US to collaborate with one another and build a bond through their passion for gaming and their shared interest in working in the game industry.
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Career Pathways in Game Design
Game Plan is a professional development series for educators that empowers them to integrate games and play into community programs, museums, schools, and after-school settings. Game Plan is a deep dive into materials from G4C’s Intro to Game Design Curriculum. The program, led by game designers and experts in game-based learning, provides an exploration into the game design process and the power of games and play to engage youth in meaningful learning. Each year, national cohorts of cross-sector educators become experts in using games for good in their unique settings, forge a supportive community of practice, and walk away with tools and resources needed to set up courses and programs infused with games, design, and play.
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Educator Programs
Games for Change offers various workshops and professional development opportunities for professionals of all ages interested in game design, education, and social impact topics.
Game Plan
Game Plan is an eight-session program for educators empowering them to integrate games and play into community programs, schools, and afterschool settings by adapting methods and materials from the Games for Change Intro to Game Design Curriculum.
The program, led by game designers and experts in game-based learning, provides a deep dive into the game design process and the power of games and play to engage youth in meaningful learning. Each year, national cohorts of cross-sector educators become experts in using games for good in their unique settings, forge a supportive community of practice, and walk away with all the tools and resources they need to set up courses and programs infused with games, design, and play.
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Teach with Unity Workshops
As part of the Student Challenge, Games for Change partners with Unity to provide a series of workshops to empower educators to build the next generation of lifelong creators in real-time 3D development. During the G4C/Unity Technologies workshops educators explore how to use, mod, and develop games for change in Unity. This series explores best practices and approaches for teaching, learning, and assessing work in Unity; builds an understanding of real-time 3D development and the possibilities for students with these skills; and provides hands-on experience in the Unity editor by supporting participants to create a game design project.
