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gardens in Fish Lake — As CEO of 7 Generation Games, I am proud and humbled to be able to announce that we have received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create a new learning platform, specifically aimed at helping meet the needs of Indigenous students and the educators working to serve these communities.

Announcing Growing Math Project to Meet Immediate Educational Needs of ...

November 12, 2020 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Cultural content / Educational Games / Events / Newsletter / rural education / Start-up Diaries / Teachers tagged Growing Math / newsletter by Maria Burns Ortiz

Our game dev intern (now junior web developer as of August) Anthony Kampa, joined 7 Generation Games a few weeks ago through the SciTech Internship Program. Originally from Saint Cloud, MN, Anthony is slaying school at University of Minnesota Crookston, home of the Golden Eagles. He’s currently a Software Engineering […]

Intern Spotlight: Anthony Kampa

July 8, 2020 in Educational Games / Intern Diaries by Christy Hanson

A while back, AnnMaria opened up the discussion for unpaid interns. On the other hand, Maria is set on interns being paid because she feels that having unpaid interns is taking advantage of young people who are desperate for work experience. But AnnMaria is open to the idea of unpaid […]

Why Paying Interns is Worth It

June 30, 2020 in Start-up Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / interns by Hannah Wren

According to PBS, internships are going away or going remote in the odd, new normal. With many universities and colleges going remote and even dropping standardized test requirements, higher ed is set to move forward despite the odds. Have no fear, future intern. Your best bet right now is to […]

Landing an Internship in the Pandemic

June 30, 2020 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries tagged Intern / Internship by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you’re going to run a startup, you have to be able to accept a certain level of uncertainty. You never know what’s going to work – or not work. Will this social media approach be the right one? Will this blog topic generate a bunch of views? Will going to […]

You Never Know

February 28, 2020 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

World's Largest Pheasant I met on Innovation Corps tour — Interviewing outstanding educators as part of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps we found three needs stood out.

What day is it? NSF I Corps Week 2-3

February 12, 2020 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Start-up Diaries tagged Innovation Corps by AnnMaria De Mars

Flight 1 of 13 in NSF Innovation Corps Program — What exactly is the Innovation Corps? Why is AnnMaria not returning my calls/ emails / meeting requests? Will Maria, AnnMaria and Juliana ever sleep again? Which of them lives at LAX Terminal 7 and which in the Delta terminal at MSP? Read on to have all of these questions answered. […]

We’ll never sleep again. NSF I-Corps Begins

January 26, 2020 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

One thing I gained from judo was the importance of persistence. There are no doubt a lot of people who have better technique than me. They had better instructors who came from famous clubs, maybe even the Kodokan. I started at the Alton YMCA. There are probably lots of people […]

How judo taught me to avoid Startup Burnout

January 17, 2020 in AnnMaria / Bilingual Education / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged startup / startup advice by AnnMaria De Mars

Maria Burns Ortiz — Our CEO, Maria Burns Ortiz, never stops! She'll be on a fireside chat at the ED Games Expo January 9 in DC, doing game demos and then heading for a school site visit.

Meet our Traveling CEO in DC : ED Games Expo

January 5, 2020 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries tagged business travelers by AnnMaria De Mars

Sunset on the Standing Rock reservation — I get stressed that I have not accomplished enough in a week. Then I look at what has happened this decade. Weeks add up. People are awesome.

Word of the Decade: Gratitude

December 31, 2019 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Before I started working here, my knowledge of Native American history was what I learned in middle school, basically a watered down unit on The Trail of Tears. There is so much more history than what is taught in schools, – and at 7 Generation Games, we work really hard […]

My Top 5 Native American History Video Resources

November 14, 2019 in Educational Resources / Intern Diaries tagged Native American heritage month by Sabrena Youngerman

User support can be messy — User support is everyone's job in a small company, but I'm happy to do it. Help requests mean people are actually using our software.

User support and big fat liars

September 16, 2019 in Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars