Games That Make You Smarter

Education: Innovation and STEM

Mayan codex — I was going to title this “How not to be stupid in game design” but then I realized the points apply to just about everything. Hello, people in industry, non-profits, government – in short, just about everybody – if you are going to design something for a group of people, […]

How NOT to Be Stupid

July 5, 2015 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Dr. Longie — GUEST POST FROM DR. ERICH LONGIE, 7 GENERATION GAMES LEAD CULTURAL CONSULTANT: As a long time educator on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation, I’ve had many discussions with other educators in our school system regarding how to raise the average yearly performance (AYP) scores of our students. Unfortunately, due to […]

The Advantages & Disadvantages of Year-Round School on an Indian ...

June 14, 2015 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM by Maria Burns Ortiz

7 Generation Games is excited to be attending the 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium on April 22-24, 2015 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Earlier this year, 7 Generation Games submitted their application to be apart of the Launch Pad where only 10 educational technology companies […]

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Events / Women in Tech tagged #et4online / 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium / Launch Pad by admin

7 Generation Games — If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]

How 7 Generation Games differs from other companies

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math / Women in Tech by admin

Our project manager Jessica is attending EdCamp Long Beach on Sunday and was asking me what to expect as she has never been to one. I’m by no means the EdCamp expert, but I’ve been to a few (EdCamp Los Altos, EdCamp MSP, EdCamp Magnet, EdCamp SF Bay). Here is what I […]

Tips for a Successful EdCamp

April 10, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Events tagged Ed Camp / EdCamp Long Beach by Maria Burns Ortiz

Filling out accelerator applications, a common question is, “What makes your company different?” I think they want us to say something along the lines of “We make robots that can manufacture anything, including themselves. We promise they will never turn on us and destroy humanity, or at least not until […]

No One Wants to Be Dumb – and why being ...

March 3, 2015 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games CEO, AnnMaria De Mars, will be featured as the Keynote Speaker at the 6th Annual Livingston’s Young Women’s Conference on Saturday, March 28, 2015. The event will take place on from 8am to 3:30pm at Livingston Middle School which is located in Livingston, CA. This is a free event […]

AnnMaria De Mars presents at Livingston’s Young Women’s Conference as ...

February 4, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Events / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria DeMars / Free Event / Keynote Speaker / Young Women's Conference by admin

It’s Friday and here’s your freebie from 7 Generation Games. This week we are featuring several PowerPoint presentations that you can download for free from our website. The presentations are also available for download in a PDF format. All of these resources were developed to complement the common core-aligned concepts as they relate to […]

Freebie Friday: PowerPoint presentations that teach math

January 9, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Freebie Friday tagged Common Core / Freebie Friday by admin

7GenBanner — University statistics courses – I’m not just an employee, I’m a customer! (I bet none of you remember that Hair Club for Men commercial and don’t get that reference. That’s okay, I amused myself.) In my spare time, of which I have none, I teach a statistics course once or […]

A Tale of Two Statistics Professors

November 18, 2014 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Girls — I have mixed feelings whenever I read about the diversity efforts in the tech industry. On the one hand, as a Hispanic woman over fifty, I am certainly in favor of increasing diversity. There is research showing more diverse teams are more effective, and that only makes sense. Why would […]

Diversity in tech teams is good and we walk the ...

September 25, 2014 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

Welcome to a revolution in educational video gaming! 7 Generation Games makes games incorporating math, Native American history and adventure gaming. Our products are currently used in more than 20 schools and after-school programs. We believe in educating through engaging. Spirit Lake: The Game is commercially available. Our second game, […]

Welcome to a revolution in educational video gaming!

September 19, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games tagged Adventure Gaming / Fish Lake / Math / Native American History by admin

7GenBanner — Did you know that our games are currently in more than 20 schools and after-school programs across the United States? In fact, we have an additional 300-plus individual users, hailing from 32 states and seven different countries! You can join the trend too by purchasing a Spirit Lake Game to […]

Become part of a revolution in educational gaming!

August 18, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Uncategorized by admin