{"id":94,"date":"2012-12-20T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.hmc.edu\/news-events\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-01-16T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:18:39","slug":"students-get-games-feedback-from-local-sixth-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2012\/12\/20\/students-get-games-feedback-from-local-sixth-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Get Games Feedback from Local Sixth-Graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from computer science Professor Z Sweedyk\u2019s Games Network class visited a local elementary school Dec. 7 to user test educational games they developed in collaboration with middle school students and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>They shared five games\u2014which taught subjects such as math, science and history through interactive play\u2014with sixth-graders at Armstrong Elementary School in Pomona, Calif. As the games were played, the HMC students received feedback and suggestions on how to improve their games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been personally really interested in game development just from playing games as a kid, and I\u2019m finding that it\u2019s a really fun thing to engage in, this making your own game,\u201d said Jane Hoffswell \u201914. \u201cThis has been a really great experience for that as well as working with the kids and seeing their reactions to the games we\u2019ve made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, Games Network is part of an overall effort to advance a software development model that engages both college and middle-school students.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.hmc.edu\/~z\/gamesNetwork\/gamesNetwork.html\">The Games Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from computer science Professor Z Sweedyk\u2019s Games Network class visited a local elementary school Dec. 7 to user test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}