
This will be the first mission not in chronological order. And an application for Mission 8 was submitted to NEH. It won't have VR goodness, but it'll be great to have it more broadly accessible. Also, we're making a web-streaming version of TimeSnap for the fall. Summer 2021, Mission 2: A Flight to Freedom remake : The project is underway! We expect it to be ready in early 2022. His life is uprooted after Pearl Harbor is attacked and the government forces him and 120,000 others into camps.Ģ021 International Serious Play Awards: Gold Medal Winner, K-12 Education (for Prisoner in My Homeland)Ģ019-20 Teachers' Choice Award, "For the Classroom" category.Ģ019 International Serious Play Awards: Gold Medal Winner, K-12 EducationĢ018 A Parents' Choice Awards: Winner, Gold Award (for Up from the Dust, mobile app)Ģ017 International Serious Play Awards: Silver Medal Winner, 7-12 EducationĢ017 Daytime Emmy Awards: Nominee, Outstanding InteractiveĢ016 Daytime Emmy Awards: Nominee, Outstanding Interactive Media – Original Program or Series (for City of Immigrants)Ģ015 International Serious Play Awards: Gold Medal Winner, EducationĢ014 Games for Change: Winner, Most Significant Impact (for A Cheyenne Odyssey)Ģ014 A Parents' Choice Awards: Winner, Gold AwardĢ013 Webby Awards: Official Honoree, General Website – YouthĢ013 Common Sense Media ON for Learning Award: WinnerĢ012 NETA Awards: Winner, Classroom Content, Instructional Media category (received score 60 of 60 from judges)Ģ012 International Serious Play Awards: Gold Medal Winner, EducationĢ011 NETA Awards: Winner, Instructional Content/Learning Object, Instructional Media category (received score 60 of 60 from judges) Prisoner in My Homeland has players take on the role of Henry Tanaka, a Japanese-American teenager living on Bainbridge Island. Up from the Dust, also available as an iPad App, has players take on the roles of twins who develop different strategies for survival, after their family farm is devastated by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.


military expeditions in the 1860s and 70s.Ĭity of Immigrants casts players in the role of a Jewish teen who immigrates to New York City in 1907, during the growth of the labor and progressive movements. Navigating her difficult escape to Ohio, students learn about slavery, resistance, and abolition before the Civil War.Ī Cheyenne Odyssey has players become a Northern Cheyenne boy whose life is changed by western expansion and the encroachment of the railroad, white settlers, and U.S. Students learn about the coming of the American Revolution, and different perspectives of Patriots and Loyalists.įlight to Freedom has players take on the role of a young enslaved girl on a Kentucky plantation in 1848. For Crown or Colony?, also available as an iPad App, puts players in the shoes of a printer’s apprentice in 1770 Boston.
