AnnMaria De Mars

Our company is doing a software design project with students from New Earth school (keep reading to find why this is extraordinary). The students complete a series of assignments to help us do a revision of one of our games. They start by meeting with one of our team members […]

And now for some good news: Software Design with New ...

November 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / New earth by AnnMaria De Mars

boots — We’ve all had them – those teachers who really need to take their lesson plans, retire and go home. They’re teaching from the same set of yellowed lecture notes they wrote in 1974. I never want to be one of those teachers, so, on a regular basis, I try to […]

Putting Myself in the Students’ Shoes

November 1, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

checkbook — At age 15, I made a fake ID that said I was 18, left home, got a job and a checking account. That was over 40 years ago and it is probably harder to do in this age of computers when people can check up on you more easily. On […]

Someone Needs to Be Teaching This

October 29, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Sell the sizzle, not the steak I’ve always hated that Silicon Valley cliche. I know people saying it think they are smartly pointing out that people buy for reasons other than pragmatic ones. We want products that make us feel cool, sexy and superior. That focus on marketing can also […]

Be the solution, not the problem

October 24, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Whether or not you backed us on Kickstarter, you’d probably find our Family Textbook hilarious. It’s a book of, you guessed it, our family group text. If you didn’t back us on Kickstarter for $50 or more, you won’t be getting one, but you can still read about what you’re […]

“Who said it?” Trivia game from our Family Textbook

October 24, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

If your entire exposure to county extension agents has been the clueless guy on Green Acres, you are about to be pleasantly surprised. I haven’t been blogging much lately because I’ve been criss-crossing the country in planes and automobiles to meet with schools about our games. Maria told me that […]