"Build Week" and our Game Design Teams are ...

... hard at work on our "Homemade Arcade" games!

Exact cutting is important.
So is safety! This team knows what it's doing!

After talking about ideas, deciding on an arcade game, and making a written "Action Plan," our six Game Design Teams all began their builds this week.

Accurate measuring is important, too.

Measuring is a skill that's valuable for building. It's a skill we'll need in almost any career.

Working as a team is one of the "soft skills" that your boss will want to see. That's why we are using this "Homemade Arcade" project to strengthen our soft skills: teamwork, communication, problem solving, planning, and persistence.

Teamwork means putting ideas together
while putting cardboard together.

Each team has a different design for their arcade game. Sometimes, the design is in our head, and the hard part is getting the cardboard to cooperate!

Anyone recognize these lower
appendages? We found them in
a box.....

This Game Designer (right) is really "into" this project. He is measuring the interior dimensions of the box as he plans.

This arcade game is destined for greatness!

We need our teams for ideas. We also need them so we have enough hands to do the cutting and taping!

With our rubrics in hand, our Game Design Teams are excited! Mark your calendar. Oct. 6 will be the display of Tiospa Zina Tribal Schools 2017 K-12 Global Cardboard Challenge! 

[Click here to see the rubrics and the rules our class is using.]