Last week, our cultural consultant Dr. Erich Longie and our co-founder Maria Burns Ortiz traveled to Prior Lake, Minnesota (right outside of the Twin Cities) to attend the biennial Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium. The event brings together Native Americans from across Minnesota and the surrounding areas to discuss issues relating […]
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We’ve had a busy few weeks. As we recently posted, we received a USDA Phase II grant for $450,000. Of course, being notified you’ve received the grant and getting the money deposited in your account are two different things. The last couple weeks started with our CEO and accountant starting […]
Spirituality – and how we know we chose the right ...
Following the great success of our Northern California and Las Vegas meetups, we’re thrilled to be hosting another teacher/educator/Kickstarter backer meetup in Los Angeles. (Here’s a link to the PDF version if that’s preferable.) See you there!
Come to our LA Meetup on Sept. 14
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to watch my boss give a keynote presentation on statistical analysis to a collection of brainiacs in San Diego. Walking into the conference that afternoon, I was unsure whether or not I would understand a single sentence from the day’s discussions. More nerve-racking […]
The Intern Diaries: The Dumbest Guy in the Room
OK, so it’s not so much a world tour, but we’re on the road A LOT lately as we’re busy promoting and working on our games. And while we’re on the road, we’re hoping to meet up with you. Whether you’d like to have us demo at your school, you’re […]
7 Generation Games World Tour
Word about our game is getting out. On Saturday, 7 Generation Games was the subject of a feature story that ran in the Jamestown Sun newspaper in Jamestown, ND. From the story: [7 Generation Games] has received more than $500,000 in federal grants to develop these educational games. It has […]
Press: 7 Generation Games in Jamestown Sun
Last week, I wrote about work-related burnouts: why people get them and how they may be avoided. This week I decided it would be appropriate to build upon this idea a bit further by discussing an equally important professional skill: goal setting. Now when we think of goals, we often […]
The Intern Diaries: “How to StickK to Your Goals”
We’ll be in San Jose next week meeting with some people about getting the game into their classrooms, but we also want to meet with you! Come to our meetup on Aug. 14 from 6-8 p.m. in San Jose. Hope to see you there.
Join us for our Bay Area meetup on 8/14!
Late last week I caught employment’s common cold: “paralysis by analysis.” After several weeks of productive work, I suddenly sensed my motivation beginning to slack. Tasks that usually took me an hour to complete were taking longer; ideas were few and far between; and my vigor all of the sudden […]
The Intern Diaries: “How to Beat Burnouts”
Whenever I read articles about the need for more diversity in tech start-ups it is with mixed feelings. While I completely agree with the sentiment that we need more than “Zuckerberg clones selling to yuppies”, the typical comment like in this Fast Company article that companies targeting a diverse market […]
We are not a unicorn!
On Thursday, 7 Generation Games sent me on my first-ever networking assignment. Lucky for me, the event I attended was a drinkubator. This made it fun and easy to engage with the other attendees as each new encounter generally prompted the order of another cocktail. “I could get used to […]