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Monthly Archives: August 2017

Welcome to another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake. The freebie is a cultural video on the Dakota’s tracking ability. The video teaches you about the tracking ability of the Dakota and how they’re taught at an early age to never get lost and how they’re […]

Freebie Friday: Dakota Tracking Ability

August 18, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Cultural Content / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Week 1 of our Kickstarter campaign for “AzTech Games” has flown by – and we’ve already raised over $4,000, putting us fully on track to hit our goal. (If you haven’t backed us yet, here’s your chance!) As we started going through the artwork to select the reward images for our “Art Director” […]

Cool Kickstarter Reward: AzTech Artwork

August 18, 2017 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Our current Kickstarter constant push chaos (back us!) has gotten me thinking about my own experience growing up as a bilingual Latina in the United States with a non-English speaking parent. My mother came to the United States when she was 25-years-old. For a myriad of reasons she didn’t fully learn the […]

English Language Homework in a Spanish Language Home

August 17, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from July 4, 2016 “Write Your Own Story” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Since it’s the 4th of July, I figure no one is very work-focused today […]

Throwback Thursday: Write Your Own Story

August 17, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Kids playing game — Kids will play a video game 50 times to incrementally improve, to get a fraction of a level further. Wouldn’t it great if they took that same approach when it came to homework problems? With educational games, that can happen! That realization is one that more and more people are […]

Why Your Kids Should Use Educational Games

August 16, 2017 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by Maria Burns Ortiz

Yesterday, I wrote about how SBIR awards are a highly competitive, but also amazing way to fund your startup’s R&D. (Speaking of funding startups, you should totally back our Kickstarter!) Today, I’m following that up with the biggest misconceptions I keep running across that will ensure that you do NOT […]

How NOT to Get A Grant

August 15, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you’re running a startup you have probably read pages upon Internet pages about how to get funded. It’s about pitching to VCs, seeking angel investors, getting into accelerators or crowdfunding, but I’m still surprised by how many people don’t know what SBIR awards are. They literally are the reason […]

Funding Your Startup: SBIR Grant Awards

August 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We rolled out a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming series AzTech Games on Thursday. Now, this marked out third Kickstarter campaign, so I knew what I was getting myself into. But we’re also further along as a company than we were the first two times, so it’s also very different […]

That Time I Emailed Everyone I’d Ever Met

August 12, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake and it is a video titled “Fish Division – Compare Unlike Denominators”. This video teaches you how to compare unlike denominators through 5 steps of solving a fishing problem. To view the video, click the […]

Freebie Friday: Fish Lake – Fish Division

August 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

tattoed Maya with pyramid in background — Have you ever had something heavy brought into your house on a trolley? (That’s the name of the cart with wheels used for, well, carting in and out, heavy stuff.) Have you ever used curb cuts when you are crossing the street pushing a baby stroller? Have you ever walked […]

Universal design: Wheelchair ramps and bilingual games

August 11, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

basketball court — We launched our Kickstarter campaign for our bilingual AzTech Games series yesterday – hitting 13% of our goal in the first 12 hours – which was amazing! Of course, we still have a long way to go, and part of the reason why we decided to do a Kickstarter wasn’t […]

An Introduction to AzTech Games

August 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from June 6, 2016 “Success in Parenting Isn’t What You Think” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s been a good week for the darling daughters. The Spoiled […]

Throwback Thursday: Success in Parenting Isn’t What You Think

August 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez