Yesterday we went to Storm Lake. We met some of the students that we are designing the application for, and we met with one teacher. Our interview with the teacher was incredible: she was a high school science teacher, but she had worked in the middle school as well at Storm Lake, so she knew about how teaching methods changed between the two levels and had many opinions about how to best engage students in the classroom. She also told us about the pros and cons of integrative learning, so we have a better idea of what kind of teaching style we should use in our game.

Working with the students was also really helpful. We learned about their previous game experience and their thoughts on Science and Math. We also learned a little bit about what activities with 4-H were like, and it seemed like 4-H gave them a lot of unique experiences, like going to Washington D.C.

Overall, the entire interaction was super helpful and enlightening, and I feel like we have a much better understanding of who we are designing our application for.

In other news, today we continued working on our deeper dives. This morning the VR team literally only worked on getting teleportation to work; there were so many issues, so it took SUUUPER long. The feeling of accomplishment at the end was very worth it though.

Technically we only have three days left for the deeper dive, which is crazy since we have so much to do, but I think we’ll be able to finish still.

Until next time 🙂