{"id":14901,"date":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/common-ground-an-educational-game-for-multibenefit-land-repurposing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","slug":"common-ground-an-educational-game-for-multibenefit-land-repurposing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/common-ground-an-educational-game-for-multibenefit-land-repurposing\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Ground: An Educational Game for Multibenefit Land Repurposing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Union of Concerned Scientists<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Computer Science\/Mathematics, 2025\u201326<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Dr. Angel S. Fern\u00e1ndez-Bou, Erin Woolley, Victoria Bortfeld<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Lynn Kirabo<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Laura Vairus (TL-S), Nicole Kerschner (TL-F), Vibhu Krishnan, Mia Mirabelli, Ria Rajasekar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit organization that puts rigorous, independent science into action. UCS advocates for multibenefit land repurposing in California\u2019s agricultural regions, which turns irrigated cropland into sustainable land alternatives that help the environment, economy and community wellbeing. We developed an educational video game (Common Ground) which simulates multibenefit land repurposing planning in a multiplayer setting and encourages players to strategize how to bring the most benefit to their town.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union of Concerned Scientists Computer Science\/Mathematics, 2025\u201326 Liaison(s): Dr. Angel S. Fern\u00e1ndez-Bou, Erin Woolley, Victoria Bortfeld Advisor(s): Lynn Kirabo Students(s): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,185],"tags":[776],"class_list":["post-14901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-mathematics","tag-union-of-concerned-scientists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14944,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions\/14944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}