June 16, 2014
By Sara Vogel
This weekend, 16 students from 5 programs represented Global Kids at Hive’s annual Emoti-Con youth digital media challenge!
Participants in GK’s NYC Haunts program from the School for Human Rights and the High School for Global Citizenship showed off the location-based games they had made about local and global social issues.
Lyndon, Shavonne, and Jania of HSGC watch as a playtester at Emoti-Con tries out “Life as a First in the Field,” their game about Jackie Robinson’s experiences with racism and discrimination.
Playing for Keeps students from the Citywide program and at Global Neighborhood Secondary School presented games for change they had made using Scratch and Gamestar Mechanic.
Malak and Aya (right) from GNSS present their game to two students who said they could identify with the challenges faced by the player character, a young immigrant.
All of our students — whether they came to present or just to be attentive, curious audience members — truly shined.
Special shout out to Payton (a 6th grader) and Keron (an 8th grader) from School for Human Rights who impressed the judges with their presentations about the location-based game they made with their peers about gun violence, Keep Wingate Safe. They placed in the top 5 and stood on stage in front of over 200 people to talk about their work! They took away badges for Point of View and Most Social Impact.
We would like to thank all of the Global Kids trainers, the NYC Hive Learning Network, the Emoti-Con Steering Committee, and the judges, and keynotes who made this day possible.
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