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Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from February 16, 2013 “Eight things I did NOT know about Kickstarter” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. We started this Kickstarter campaign a little over a week […]

Throwback Thursday: Eight things I did NOT know about Kickstarter

August 31, 2017 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

It has been brought to my attention lately that I have not been blogging very much and some people would like to hear more about what is happening. Well, I was kind of at this wedding thing – if you don’t know, now you know, my lovely next-to-youngest daughter got […]

Educational Game Secret: Girls (and boys) just want to have ...

August 31, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

When brainstorming our Kickstarter rewards, we wanted to come up with some really cool things that would be unique to what we’re doing here at 7 Generation Games and our team. The “textbook” (in this case, it’s a literal book of texts) was one of the first things that popped […]

Get a Look Behind-the-Scenes with Our Literal “Text-Book”

August 25, 2017 in 7GenGames / Reality Show / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from AzTech Games. The freebie is a powerpoint presentation on subtracting fractions with like denominators. The powerpoint presentation walks you through a fraction problem with like denominators using containers of candy. To download the powerpoint presentation, click on the the link […]

Freebie Friday: AzTech Games – An Example of Subtraction with ...

August 25, 2017 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Welcome to another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake. The freebie is a cultural video on the Dakota’s tracking ability. The video teaches you about the tracking ability of the Dakota and how they’re taught at an early age to never get lost and how they’re […]

Freebie Friday: Dakota Tracking Ability

August 18, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Cultural Content / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Week 1 of our Kickstarter campaign for “AzTech Games” has flown by – and we’ve already raised over $4,000, putting us fully on track to hit our goal. (If you haven’t backed us yet, here’s your chance!) As we started going through the artwork to select the reward images for our “Art Director” […]

Cool Kickstarter Reward: AzTech Artwork

August 18, 2017 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you’re running a startup you have probably read pages upon Internet pages about how to get funded. It’s about pitching to VCs, seeking angel investors, getting into accelerators or crowdfunding, but I’m still surprised by how many people don’t know what SBIR awards are. They literally are the reason […]

Funding Your Startup: SBIR Grant Awards

August 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We rolled out a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming series AzTech Games on Thursday. Now, this marked out third Kickstarter campaign, so I knew what I was getting myself into. But we’re also further along as a company than we were the first two times, so it’s also very different […]

That Time I Emailed Everyone I’d Ever Met

August 12, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake and it is a video titled “Fish Division – Compare Unlike Denominators”. This video teaches you how to compare unlike denominators through 5 steps of solving a fishing problem. To view the video, click the […]

Freebie Friday: Fish Lake – Fish Division

August 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

basketball court — We launched our Kickstarter campaign for our bilingual AzTech Games series yesterday – hitting 13% of our goal in the first 12 hours – which was amazing! Of course, we still have a long way to go, and part of the reason why we decided to do a Kickstarter wasn’t […]

An Introduction to AzTech Games

August 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from June 6, 2016 “Success in Parenting Isn’t What You Think” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s been a good week for the darling daughters. The Spoiled […]

Throwback Thursday: Success in Parenting Isn’t What You Think

August 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming bilingual games series, AzTech Games! (Back us please!) After weeks of planning and pulling together the video/determining rewards/lining up rollout/putting together the project page, now the real work begins. Doing a Kickstarter is kind of like having a baby. You spend and […]

Why We’re Doing Another Kickstarter

August 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz