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6th Graders: FREE Game Design Summer Camp at Parsons!
On July 12th, 2010 marc Says
Mobile Quest is a week-long game design camp that runs July 26-30, 2010, on the campus of Parsons the New School for Design. Students entering the 6th grade in September 2010 will have the chance to work with professional game designers, creative artists and other experts to learn how to turn great ideas into great games. Mobile Quest introduces campers to basic game design ideas and stresses the importance of teamwork, critical thinking, digital media literacy, and problem solving. Mobile Questers will draw board games, explore the city, tell stories with pictures and videos, and incorporate all of these materials into their games.
Mobile Quest will be held July 26–30th, each day from 9am to 1pm, at Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, NYC.
Limited spaces remain for this Free week-long camp so act fast! YOU MUST REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND.
More questions? Contact Leah at the Institute of Play by email mobilequest@q2l.org. Let her know you are a MOUSE Squad Member.
Here's the official flyer for more information.
Looking for things to do this summer? If interested in MobileQuest, you should also be sure to plan ahead for the Geek Squad Summer Academy hosted by MOUSE in August - click here to learn more about Summer Academy.
MOUSE Corps Summer Interns Kickoff and Runnin'
On July 9th, 2010 JB Says
On Tuesday, June 22nd, MOUSE Corps kicked off the Summer Internship season by meeting their mangers. 22 students and Internship hosts converged on the New School to formally begin their working relationship that will grow over the course of the 8-week internship.
Surely a sign of the times, MOUSE Corps students are gaining invaluable tech and professional skills at 9 companies hosting 13 interns this summer:
- Magnify.net
- Aviary.com
- Africa.com
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- The White House Project
- McGraw Hill- 2 interns
- Time Warner
- Drop.io
- Parson New School of Design - 4 interns
All fun and no play--no way! Throughout the summer, MOUSE Corps interns will meet up for several fun filled adventures and retreats and to reflect and learn from each other's experiences. Check the MOUSESquad.org blog weekly for updates from Summer interns.
Click here to read more about our Summer Interns and their companies.
A very big thank you to the New School for hosting this year's kickoff.
RE-WIND... 2nd Annual Emoti-Con (0.0) Wins!
On June 22nd, 2010 JB Says
On Saturday, June 19th, MOUSE Corps and MOUSE Squad members joined students from across the five boroughs at the New York Public Library's Bartos Forum to rock out at the second annual Emoti-Con: NYC's premiere Youth Media & Technology Festival.
Emoti-Con was founded through the combined the efforts of MOUSE, Global Kids, New York Public Library and Parsons Academy to showcase digital media and computing projects produced by youth.
The event was attended by over 100 youth producing great work like the 'Serious Game' by Dhondup, Kim, Hanna and Qiuxiao from International High School called Immigrant-ville:
Also among the amazing projects represented was Psych-It! a digital "Magic 8-Ball" telling fortunes with the push of a button. Stephanie Semidey's Squad from Hunt's Point created Psych-It! using the MOUSE Garage Robotics curriculum, programming a microprocessor to activate random LED lights:
Throughout the day, Emoti-Con attendees heard from the pros in digital media Joe Saavedra, a design guru at Parsons; Nina Frenkel, a digital animator and Giff Constable, digital entrepreneur.
Check out the photos on MOUSE's Flickr account by clicking here!
Very big thank yous to the New York Public Library for hosting this year's Emoti-Con, and co sponsors of the event: EMI, Best Buy Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Microsoft and the New York City Council.
Participating MOUSE Corps & Squad members hailed from:
- ACCESS, Manhattan
- Bard Early College Academy, Manhattan
- Hunts Point Middle School, Bronx
- International High School, Queens
