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Yearly Archives: 2017

Maria — Excuse me if I don’t feel all empowered by this recent uproar about women in tech and the recognition of how poorly women are treated. As if this is some big revelation that people are suddenly having. As if it’s actually something that’s going to change now because now people are […]

Lots of Outrage, Little Action on Issues Women in Tech ...

July 7, 2017 in Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 17, 2016 “The Number One Piece of Advice for Stress Relief“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Whenever you find yourself overworked or tired out, it’s […]

Throwback Thursday: The Number One Piece of Advice for Stress ...

July 6, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

I posted this on LinkedIn a few months ago. I thought given the current news cycle, and some recent responses, I’d post it here. Recently, someone advised me not to mention that we are a woman-owned company or Latina-owned company. He said, “Your products are good enough to stand on […]

Should we hide that we’re a women-owned company ?

July 4, 2017 in AnnMaria / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

Screen shot from Aztech — History is written by the victors. Winston Churchill popularized this saying in the 1930s, and throughout time, there are many examples of winners writing history. As a result, official records of what happened can be distorted. For the whole story, we have to read someone like Howard Zinn, who wrote […]

History Has Many Stories — and We Can Learn More ...

July 4, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by Eric Ortiz

Julia holding shopping bag — It’s not easy being the parent of an adolescent under any circumstances. Parents want to protect and care for their children. Youth want to experience life, to become young adults. If you find the transition to adulthood easy, your family is the lucky exception. In the next few posts, I’ll offer […]

Parenting Adolescents: Get a Job, Kid

July 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by AnnMaria De Mars

pi top laptop computer — Did you ever see those labs in the comic books or super hero movies? They’ve got these random parts and wires all over the place, a few minutes later, as the aliens are about to attack they’ve thrown together an Iron Man suit or programmed the planetary defense shield. You […]

You: A Real Scientist Super-Hero (sort of)

July 2, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game Fish Lake. Our freebie today is a video titled, “Write out numbers with Super Amy and Vin-credible”. This video shows you how to use another problem solving strategy in which you write […]

Freebie Friday: Fish Lake – Write out numbers with Super ...

June 30, 2017 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday / Teacher Resources by Diana Sanchez

The National Latina Business Women Association of Los Angeles awarded 7 Generation Games CEO Maria Burns Ortiz with its Rising/Emerging Star Award at its annual awards gala. The organization’s “Women of Excellence” Latinas in Business Awards recognize women in business “who are making a significant difference in the community.” In her acceptance […]

7 Generation Games CEO Receives Rising Star Award

June 30, 2017 in 7GenGames / Women in Tech by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 29, 2015 “The Real Story of Technology in Rural Schools“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. This is something that has bothered me for a long […]

Throwback Thursday: The Real Story of Technology in Rural Schools

June 29, 2017 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

dolphin — It starts with a latte guy. Maybe it’ll be one of those latte guy food trucks. It will be right when you come in because everyone loves coffee. You’ll hear talk about it all over the expo hall, “Which booth is the one with the latte guy?” And the crowd […]

7 Generation Games Presents the Greatest Expo Booth Ever

June 29, 2017 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Ojibwa woman — Does it even make sense to talk about “native culture” when there are over 500 tribes? In a previous post, I described the math and story line involved in our project making games customized for tribal youth. (This is from a paper Bruce Gillette and I presented at the National […]

Can you customize video games for tribal youth using “Native ...

June 29, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Gonzalo hard at work — Last post, I ended talking about the content of the Android app package. Let’s look at that a little more in-depth, Expansion files Expansion files are used if your app is larger than 100MB. Google supports expansion files up to 2GB, In our case we are using an expansion files that […]

Getting your app into Google Play: Basic Steps – continued

June 28, 2017 in Code Talk / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars