Games That Make You Smarter

Maria Burns Ortiz

We had someone write us a harshly worded Facebook message the other day, excoriating us for using this image. They were appalled, apparently, that in AzTech – a series of games about Central American and U.S. Latin American history – we would include the conquistadors. Now, mind you, the game […]

How History Works

January 23, 2018 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by Maria Burns Ortiz

Maria and AnnMaria — “There’s no history of anything happening until it does. And then there is.” When we were writing “My Fight/Your Fight,” our editor asked if we wanted to start with an epigraph – or quote/sentence/saying to start the book. Ronda knew immediately what she wanted that quote to be – the […]

Making Our Own History

January 16, 2018 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Happy 2018! It’s a new year, and a time when millions of people make resolutions with the aim of bettering themselves, their lives and/or the world around them. The idea of resolutions is admirable, even if only 8% of people actually keep their resolutions. (You don’t need to be good […]

Sticking to your New Year’s Resolutions (We’re Here to Help!)

January 3, 2018 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

I’ve been sitting here trying to draft a list of things my kids want that I actually want them to have so that I can send out the Christmas lists everyone keeps asking me for. Now don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas. But I am also at the point […]

Here’s to Buying Less Junk This Holiday Season

December 5, 2017 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

AnnMaria typing on laptop — Are you heading to the TIES 2017 Education Technology Conference in Minneapolis next week? If so, let’s meet up. We’re going to be part of the event’s StartUp Showcase in the expo hall. Come by and say “hi” for a special gift. Stumbled upon this by chance on the internet […]

TIES: Let’s Meet Up in Minneapolis

December 5, 2017 in 7GenGames / Events by Maria Burns Ortiz

Maria Burns Ortiz of 7 Generation Games was only U.S.-based company to win category round. Hyderabad, India – Maria Burns Ortiz of 7 Generation Games was one of four global entrepreneurs to advance to the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Catalyst pitch final at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit […]

7 Generation Games Finishes in Top Four at Global Entrepreneurship ...

December 3, 2017 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

This morning – after a 16.5 hour flight, a four-hour layover and another 4 hour flight – I touched down in Hyderabad, India, where I’m attending (and pitching at) the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. If you had told me a few months ago that I’d be going to India this year, […]

When Your Startup Takes You Places You Never Expected

November 27, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

You might have thought the 2017 election season was over after yesterday – you’d be wrong. Well, kind of. We at 7 Generation Games need your vote. If you’re reading this post and thinking, “Where do I go vote?” the answer is right here. (And you can go back and […]

Vote 7 Generation Games into the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Semifinals!

November 9, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

To go or not to go? Every time an invite comes into my mailbox for X random professional event, the first thing I ask is “Is it going to be worth my time?” Then I immediately reply to myself, “Who ever knows?” That’s the reality with all of these professional […]

Deciding which professional networking events to attend

October 11, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

edison dog — A couple months ago, I was at a tech conference and asked another startup founder how big her company’s team was. “We’re 8 people and one dog,” she told me. Up until that conversation, I was not aware that dogs could be part of the startup team – and according […]

Edison, the 7 Generation Games Startup Dog and Wonder Pet

October 4, 2017 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

water garden and wilshire offices — Anyone who runs a startup will tell you it borders on being life-consuming. There’s no 9-to-5, You’re constantly working on building your company, including evenings and weekends and those times you wake up in the middle of the night realizing you need to email someone back and that you still […]

Taking My Work Home With Me – To The Extreme

October 4, 2017 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyderabad_Town_Hall.jpg — You never know where your startup will take you. 7 Generation Games was first born as a concept to help close the math gap among students in Indian Country, with our first schools and initial satellite office on the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation. Now, we’re in programs across the country and, […]

GES 2017: Our Road from Indian Country to India, the ...

September 30, 2017 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz