Enrichment Gaming with Bert (Online)

Each session listed is for a specific time with a specific Educator-Gamemaster. Please refer to each listing and ensure you register for your desired EGP time slot and Educator-Gamemaster.

Games meet weekly at designated times throughout the term for a minimum of 10 sessions.

This class instance is delivered online.

--Enrichment Gaming Program--

The Game Academy’s Educational Gaming Program (EGP) sessions use collaborative storytelling via tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. Participants take on new identities and social roles as they play characters and surmount challenges within a group context. 

Participation in these games fosters and supports social-emotional growth and the development of creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills and provides exposure to broad areas of knowledge through immersion in the detailed world of the story. 

We engage our participants through collaborative storytelling, where every participant in the group plays a character and engages in imagined activities through verbal (and sometimes physical acting) collaboration. The characters in the game are challenged to overcome physical or tactical situations, solve puzzles, or engage in social role-play that provides an opportunity for social and emotional development. 

The setting and narrative are fun and engaging while presenting multiple avenues and content for academic engagement. Enrolling in EGP gives students the weekly experience of playing a hero as part of an ensemble team—each hero has specialties valued and respected by their peers, and all are necessary to succeed in the game. Participating students will learn transferable strategies to understand, engage, and transcend real-life issues through the safe and contained context of the game with a group of peers every week.

Attendees will learn the following skills:

• Problem-Solving
• Critical Thinking 
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity
• Social-Emotional Growth