Our CEO, Maria Burns Ortiz, never stops! She'll be on a fireside chat at the ED Games Expo January 9 in DC, doing game demos and then heading for a school site visit.
Start-up Diaries
I get stressed that I have not accomplished enough in a week. Then I look at what has happened this decade. Weeks add up. People are awesome.
Word of the Decade: Gratitude
Before I started working here, my knowledge of Native American history was what I learned in middle school, basically a watered down unit on The Trail of Tears. There is so much more history than what is taught in schools, – and at 7 Generation Games, we work really hard […]
My Top 5 Native American History Video Resources
User support is everyone's job in a small company, but I'm happy to do it. Help requests mean people are actually using our software.
User support and big fat liars
2 We'll be giving six conference presentations over the next seven weeks, in North Dakota, South Dakota & Minnesota.
On the road again – conference season!
In today’s episode of Startup Travel , Latinas in Tech or Where in the World are the Founders …. I’m writing this from the Pacific Surfliner, the train that runs between Los Angeles and San Diego. Being an American living on the west coast, every single time I go to […]
UnidosUS: Trains, planes and social impact startups
Intern Diaries contribution from Irma Barcena I remember in kindergarten, I would give my mother my work and she would hang it on the fridge. It varied from art and colored pictures. As I got older, it became assignments and tests where I did well, and eventually only the As […]
From papers on the refrigerator to division magnets
Everyone has biases. “But wait Sabrena, what do biases have to do with checking yourself?” Well, let me tell you. I’m sure we’ve all heard the phrases “check yourself before you wreck yourself” and “take a look in the mirror before you judge anyone else.” As much as we try […]
Checking Myself Before I Wreck Myself
How is moving our startup to the Midwest going? If you’ve been following along, you know that we’re opening a 7 Generation Games office in Minneapolis this month. If you want to meet and talk about educational software that teaches Native American history, math and English/ Language arts for grades […]
Moving our startup to the Midwest
We have not died of dysentery! Okay, maybe you only got that reference if you played Oregon Trail. It’s Day 2 of moving our startup half-way across the country and so far, the two youngest have gotten sick. Cal (age 4) got what Millie has, so he was a trooper […]
Moving Our Startup: Minnesota Trail Day 2
Maria is moving our startup, with 3 children, her husband, a dog, 17 Apple devices and 19,000 pounds of random stuff across the country to a new Minneapolis office
Minnesota Trail: Day 1 – Moving our startup
ked students to select their favorite photo they took yesterday, crop it as they saw fit and share with me on One Drive and/ or email to me. The point of this lesson was to learn about file-sharing, photo editing and emailing attachments.