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words activities from Making Camp Premium — What do grammar fixes in our games and not swearing at your students have in common? Now, you, Ms. or Mr. 5th Grade Teacher, have probably never even considered telling Emma or Devon or D’emery that you are going to skin them alive and send the hides home to their […]

Because Details Matter: 100 little tweaks and not swearing at ...

16 Aug, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from August 15, 2015 “What I Learned About Life On My Birthday” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It was seven years ago this week that Ronda […]

Throwback Thursday: What I Learned About Life On My Birthday

16 Aug, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from March 20, 2016 “Some Day Will Be Your Last Day on the Field” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Wow, it’s been a minute! I didn’t […]

Throwback Thursday: Some Day Will Be Your Last Day on ...

9 Aug, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

road outside of Tomé — You’d certainly hope after seven months in Chile I would have learned something, right? In fact, I think I’ve gained both professionally and personally. Life is lived forwards but understood backwards. For example, I never knew when I was training for the world championships that it would prepare me for […]

What did I learn in Chile?

8 Aug, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Here’s the vicious circle, few people like to do things they do very poorly, but it takes practice to get good which they don’t want to do because they are bad at math/ English/ violin/ whatever. It’s amazing that anyone learns anything, isn’t it? We can learn a lot about […]

Helping kids like school: There’s an app for that

5 Aug, 2018 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 8, 2016 “Mostly harmless” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I often think we admire the wrong traits in people. On the long (three hour!) […]

Throwback Thursday: Mostly harmless

2 Aug, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Teaching English isn’t a piece of cake

1 Aug, 2018 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from November 13, 2016 “Life from a different perspective” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Last week, I was running late to a meeting so I parked […]

Throwback Thursday: Life from a different perspective

26 Jul, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

walking robot — Did you know that we offer a game design curriculum? If your school licenses our games, you can get it for free, all you need to do is ask. If you talk to Maria or me, you probably don’t even need to ask because we can’t wait to tell you […]

Getting Your Kids into STEM through Game Design

19 Jul, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 23, 2015 “Truth, Justice and the American Way” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. My not-yet-new-year’s resolution was that I should not focus on business […]

Throwback Thursday: Truth, Justice and the American Way

19 Jul, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

There’s a comic where the boss tells an engineer to “give the customers what they want” and the engineer says, “They want better products, for free.” The boss promptly scraps that give-the-customers-what-they-want nonsense. Almost from the first moment we produced Spirit Lake and Fish Lake people have been asking us, […]