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Yearly Archives: 2024

You may not know that, before I founded or co-founded four companies and a non-profit foundation, I was the first American to win the world judo championships. I also taught Entrepreneurship at California Indian Nations College. At first glance, it might appear that judo and entrepreneurship don’t have all that […]

Entrepreneurship Advice from a World Judo Champion

May 8, 2024 in Educational Games / Founders Corner / Women in Tech tagged 7 Generation Games by AnnMaria De Mars

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES, ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND FEDERAL AGENCY REPORTS De Mars, A., Taken Alive, J., Ortiz, M., et al. (2022). Educators’ Perspectives on Factors Impacting STEM Achievement in Rural Indigenous Student- Serving Schools. The Rural Educator, 43(1), 24-36. https://doi.org/10.35608/ruraled.v43i1.1207 De Mars, A. (2021). Growing Math: Accessible, Cross-Curricular Education in Food and Agricultural […]

The Data Behind 7 Generation Games and 7 Gen Blocks

April 29, 2024 in Educational Games by Maria Burns Ortiz

I’m sure you may have heard of our Making Camp game series, in fact I’m certain because it happens to be our most popular game series. Now Making Camp Ojibwe, the one that started it all, has gone through some updates. With Making Camp Ojibwe being one of the very […]

Long Time Coming: Making Camp Ojibwe Updated!

April 24, 2024 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by Diana Sanchez

AnnMaria will be at BUILDFest LA 2024! BUILDFest LA is an event put on by BUILD.org, which is a nonprofit organization that empowers youths with entrepreneurship in order to have them become the CEOs of their own lives. BUILDFest is an event that will celebrate the work that BUILD.org has […]

AnnMaria Will Be At BUILDFest LA 2024!

April 18, 2024 in Educational Games / Events by Diana Sanchez

We’ve been very busy at 7 Generation Games! We’ve been getting ready for new projects, working on making updates to our games, and now a new game release. The latest addition to our Disaster Deduction Detectives series is available. DDD Academy Agent Emilia is looking for a new recruit and […]

So Many Decisions…Division Decisions!

April 9, 2024 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by Diana Sanchez

If you’ve played the beta version of Making Camp Navajo, and even if you haven’t, then we have great news. Making Camp Navajo went through a lot of huge changes and is now out of beta. Say hello to Making Camp Navajo 1.0! One of the major changes that Making […]

Making Camp Navajo 1.0!

April 3, 2024 in Educational Games tagged making camp navajo by Diana Sanchez

New Mexico desert — TL; DR - in the Making Camp Navajo update, we made it a lot less likely that students would need to call over the teacher for help.

Thinking of teachers (& students): Making Camp Navajo Out of ...

March 27, 2024 in Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Creating opportunities through breaking down barriers in educational game development We started 7 Generation Games because we believed kids deserved better. We built better learning games and got better results: better academic outcomes, better engagement and better representation (both games and classroom curriculum). Over time, our mission has stayed the […]

No code, no problem: 7 Gen Blocks EDU

March 20, 2024 in Educational Games by Maria Burns Ortiz

games we've made — Algebra allows you to go past memorizing answers to specific problems to solve TYPES of problems. 7 Gen Blocks lets you create types of problems, games or instruction with minimal coding.

7 Gen Blocks : Coding as Arithmetic is to Algebra

March 19, 2024 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

One of the things we’ve learned in making games is that players like games that give them options, so I thought I’d start this blog post by letting you make a choice. Think of it as a (very low budget) choose-your-adventure version of our blog posts. Option 1: You mentioned […]

We Made a Game About How We Make Games!

March 7, 2024 in 7GenGames / Customized Games / Educational Games tagged Customized development / Educational Games by Maria Burns Ortiz

TL;DR – Being specific is a necessary but not sufficient condition for prompts for AI. Including examples in your prompts can work wonders. Now, read on. Let me tell you about one of the worst math games I ever saw. It was used in an alternative high school program for […]

What AI Can Do: Writing Useful Math Word Problems

March 6, 2024 in Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games / AI / Artificial Intelligence / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Hi! My name’s Aahanaa and I’m an intern at 7 Generation Games. I go to college in Saint Paul but I’m originally from Kolkata, India. Why 7 Generation Games: I knew early on that I had a passion for both art and technology but for a good chunk of my […]

Intern Spotlight: Meet Aahanaa!

February 19, 2024 in Educational Games / Intern Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / interns by Diana Sanchez