Melanie Stegman, yours truly, will be presenting her research on Immune Attack, development of the sequal and all about using game to teach and learn. April 23, 6PM. At the FabLab on North Capitol at P. If you have made a game, bring it with you! Please Register Here.
Video Games can teach science by presenting and requiring your interaction with complex 3D models of things you otherwise need to imagine because they are too small, to rare, or too far away to see.
Video games can also teach science to you if you decide to MAKE your own video game. If you design it on paper you are doing systems thinking, planning, designing, and considering human computer interactions. If you program a game you are learning to convert a designer’s instructions accurately, how to creatively solve programming problems, and how to optimize your system.
Video Games can also be made about science, as well. If you make a game about science, then you are learning the science yourself and everyone who plays your game may learn, to.
Have you made a video game? Would you like to show it off? Have you ever submitted it to a contest, like the STEM Video Game Challenge? Have you almost created a game and want to get some feedback? Are you just curious about what anyone could actually be learning from a video game?
Then come out and meet game developer and many other types of design and maker people at Fab Lab DC.
Melanie will talk about Immune Attack and what students are learning. There will be time before and after the presentation to try out some other great science games:
History of Biology
Minesweeper
Fold It
Cellcraft
You Make Me Sick
EtRNA
You Make Me Sick
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This event is an official part of the month long USA Science and Engineering Festival. The Finale Expo will be April 29-30 in the DC Convention Center April 27-29th. Come out and meet Melanie at the FAS booth, talk with scientists in the “Encounter’s with Scientists” booth (FAS hour is 11AM Sunday the 29th) and meet the Fab Lab people in their booth #3050!
Please register here:http://learnfromgamesstegman.eventbrite.com/
This event is an official part of the month long USA Science and Engineering Festival. The Finale Expo will be April 29-30 in the DC Convention Center April 27-29th. Come out and meet Melanie at the FAS booth, talk with scientists in the “Encouter’s with Scientists” booth (FAS hour is 11AM Sunday the 29th) and meet the Fab Lab DC people at their booth (#3050)!
