(The beginning of our semester was conducted remotely for the first 2 weeks due to Covid-19 Omicron).
At the start of our first week, our team met with our faculty advisors, Brenda and Dave, on zoom for our Games for Change project, 2022. As a kick-off meeting, we discussed roles distribution, weekly deliverable expectations, and other general guidelines.
Overall, this was the list of our goals for the week:
- We chose our project team name as ECHO.
- Sarah Kim and Em Tyminski became Co-Producers of the team and were responsible for setting up a time to meet with Raul Carvajal, our Games for Change client.
- Set core hours schedule.
- Participate in the Transformational Framework Workshop to begin thinking about our project goal and topic.
- Individually explore the Games for Change web and spend time understanding its context and history.
On Friday (1/21), we met with Raul on zoom to introduce our team as well as our individual roles. We spent the 1 hour to discuss and hear about the history of Games for Change , its growth and mission, and a recap of this year’s theme which was ‘environmental change’. Wrapping up the meeting, the team decided to spend time over weekend to do some individual research and look for environmental topics that could be of potential interest and reconvene in the following Monday to discuss possible scopes and directions for the project. By selecting a couple of topics that are specific to the team’s interest, we guided ourselves a starting point from the big pool of environmental issues and decided to work from there.