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7 Generation Games has been invited by the Department of Education to exhibit at the Ed Games Expo in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 9. The Expo brings together the best educational games that have been funded by Small Business Innovation Research grants. We’re incredibly excited to be participating and proud to […]

7 Generation Games Invited to Participate In Ed Games Expo

November 30, 2015 in 7GenGames / Newsletter / Uncategorized tagged Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Holiday Sales / newsletter / Small Business Saturday by Erick Salomon

Maybe you’ve just learned about what we’re doing here at 7 Generation Games, and you wanted to learn more about our games. Or maybe you’ve checked us out before, but are interested in all the games we have to offer — including the games we’ve yet to release. To help […]

From Spirit Lake to Aztech: An Overview of 7 Generation ...

November 28, 2015 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from June 12, 2012 “I Have No Trouble Finding Latino Staff Members – Proof There Isn’t a Level Playing Field” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. When I send bills to clients, […]

Throwback Thursday: I Have No Trouble Finding Latino Staff Members ...

November 26, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Uncategorized tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Latinos / Playing Field / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

Kids playing game — Anyone who has spent any time around kids knows that they don’t sugarcoat anything. Here’s what they said when we gave a few of them an opportunity to play 7 Generation Games and then asked them what they thought. I’m in Utah for the penultimate (I just like being about […]

Would You Want to Play This Game? (Spoiler: It’s an ...

October 29, 2015 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Teacher with students — Someone recently asked us for our impact statement. We wanted to share it here as well. At 7 Generation Games, we’re building technology for a better world. Our goal is create affordable educational technology that benefits the lives of all students and is accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. […]

How We’re Working to Make an Impact

October 16, 2015 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Happy Friday! Today’s Freebie Friday takes a look at the Native American tradition of counting coup, right from Spirit Lake: The Game. After a battle, people of the tribe would gather together to recount their acts of bravery and to count coup. Coup was recorded by putting notches in a coup […]

Freebie Friday: Native American Traditions

October 9, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday / Uncategorized by Jessica Holmes

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

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

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

Last night we attended the first EdTech LA Meetup at Coworkk (yes, it is spelled “Coworkk”) in Beverly Hills. We met a lot of great people and heard some interesting presentations about some of the projects that other members of the group we we’re working. So what is the EdTech LA Meetup […]

LA Ed Tech Meetup

August 28, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin

We love our office so much; it is not only the heart of our company, but also the space in which great minds aggregate and dreams, passion, and hard work materialize into educational games that have the potential to make a huge difference in the world! But our time and […]

Come Find Out More About Us!

August 28, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin

7 Generation Games — In my time so far at 7 Generation Games I’ve had the opportunity to make a number of contributions to the sound of our games, such as: cleaning up and editing voice recordings, creating new sounds for the games, and batch conversion of audio files. My most immediate contribution came […]

Sound editing internship at 7 Generation Games

August 22, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin