Spring 2013
Impact! is a project working towards inspiring young minds to pursue science and engineering as a career. Initiated by DARPA, this is a multi-year project working in conjunction with many different institutions and organizations, such as the Sesame Workshop and Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction Institute. The end- product will be a series of multi- platform games for Pre-K-3rd graders that inspires interest and teaches basic concepts in the field of science. This semester our team is working on four existing projects simultaneously: “Teeter Totter Go!”, “Rumble Blocks”, “Beanstalk” and “Sleepy Busy Party”. Our goal is to improve them all to the final release state. Specifically, one of our main goals is to transform “Teeter Totter Go!” into a game worthy of being hosted on PBSKids.org. We will be making our game fit into The Electric Company’s game, “Prankster Planet”, and make it more exciting for kids playing the game. Our goal is that as they play, the children will be able to learn the balance formula based on Robert Siegler’s paper, perform socio-emotional tasks and, what is equally important, have a lot of fun!