Following my prior post Serious Games Award Winners Announced @ Serious Play , here is another Gold Medal Winner at the Serious Play Conference, held August 23 – 25, 2011 at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Wash: RoboMath. RoboMath , a mathematics instruction Serious Game developed for the Canadian Space Agency by Project Whitecard and Virtual Heroes , has been requested by over 40,000 teachers in Canada, and will reach over 1.25 million students this year, placing it as the second largest distribution of a single learning software title in the world. Using the Unreal Engine, the team developed a realistic depiction of the International Space Station centered around STS-127. Students assemble a platform on the station while undertaking integrated Mathematics essential to completion. Voice provided in two languages by astronaut Julie Payette herself. RoboMath and RoboMath3 are focused on curriculum specific math concepts for 5/6 and 9/10 gr
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