Games That Make You Smarter

Maria Burns Ortiz

As you may know, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been instrumental in 7 Generation Games growth. In fact, it’s not really an overstatement to say that you likely wouldn’t be here at all if it weren’t for USDA. We’ve received three grants from USDA to date for Small […]

We Loved USDA Even Before They Featured Us in Ed-Facts!

September 24, 2015 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Maria Burns Ortiz — There will not be a single week between now and Thanksgiving week that I’m not on a plane at least once. And I’ve come to realize it’s not like things are going to slow down dramatically after that. As a startup, being busy is a good problem to have. It means you’re moving […]

There’s No One Thing, It’s a Lot of Things

September 16, 2015 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

As we’ve mentioned, our company is in the middle of participating in BoomStartup’s EdTech accelerator in Salt Lake City. We’re one month into the three-month program and we can already see to why they call it an “accelerator” as things are moving at an even faster pace than usual around […]

7 Generation Games Spotlighted in BoomStartup’s September Newsletter

September 14, 2015 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

We were at a recent EdTech meet-up where we had a conversation with an entrepreneur developing a K12 math app that went like this: 7 Generation Games: So did you used to be a teacher? Other entrepreneur: No, I used to work at X tech company. 7 Generation Games: Oh, […]

The Ed Comes First in EdTech

September 2, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM by Maria Burns Ortiz

At 7 Generation Games, we often talk about the impact our games have in terms of easily quantifiable data like improved math performance scores. But statistics — and I know our CEO/resident statistician Dr. AnnMaria De Mars will even agree with me on this — are only one part of it. We’re […]

This Is Why We Do What We Do

September 1, 2015 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

People in the tech startup world take for granted the idea that everyone knows what an accelerator is – but this post is a nod to the fact that the vast majority of people probably have no idea what that means. You see, there’s this tendency within the tech […]

What Is an Accelerator?

August 24, 2015 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

For this week’s Freebie Friday, we’re mixing things up. Our CEO’s birthday is tomorrow. Instead of a gifts, AnnMaria asked everyone she knows to donate a game. We thought – in the spirit of Freebie Friday and general birthday fun – that we’d do one better. For every game purchased between […]

Freebie Friday: Happy Birthday to our CEO

August 14, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday by Maria Burns Ortiz

My oldest daughter started second grade today. On the first morning back to school, she woke up early without taking much nudging. She was up and ready to go in nearly record time. She grabbed her backpack and was in the car with half an hour to spare before the […]

Startups Take Sacrifice

August 14, 2015 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We’ve been sitting on some big news and are thrilled we can finally announce that 7 Generation Games was selected to participate in BoomStartup’s EdTech accelerator! We’ll be spending three of the next 12 weeks in Salt Lake City (two at the beginning of the program and one at the end) […]

Big News: We’re Participating in BoomStartup’s EdTech Accelerator!

August 10, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Two of our founders are down in Rio for the week. It’s an amazing city with lots to offer – beautiful beaches, good coffee, wonderful people – but there’s admittedly one thing lacking: reliable Internet. Now for most people coming down to Rio, that’s probably not an issue. I mean […]

Rio On Five Megabytes a Day

August 1, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

We here at 7 Generation Games want to extend our sincere congratulations to our very first game tester, Ronda Rousey, who picked up two wins at last night’s ESPY Awards on ESPN. Long before she was earning the distinction of “Best Fighter” and “Best Female Athlete,” Ronda was giving us […]

7 Generation Games Game Tester Ronda Rousey Wins 2 ESPYs!

July 16, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Certain parts of a job can get done with less effort or in less time after you’ve done them a dozen times. Case in point, the image above is from the canoeing scene in Fish Lake. The first time I played that part, I thought I’d never make it down the river […]

When Running a Startup, You Never Slow Down

July 15, 2015 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz