Two Park City High School students helped develop interactive history games for middle and high schoolers. The games not only teach kids about history but how to think for themselves.
The unusual task came to Park City High School students Taylor Bergman and Garrett Moreno through the Park City Centers for Advanced Professional Studies, or PCCAPS, program. It pairs students with local and regional companies to work on real-world business projects.
Bergman and Moreno were selected to help Victoria Sanders and her Wyoming-based company Elephanta Education by developing and testing history games for middle and high school classrooms. Bergman, a junior, said the mission was simple: create games for students, by students.
Sanders began researching and developing her interactive series “Brave” in 2018. The four-game series simulates historical events by allowing students to role-play buying and selling commodities, model trade dynamics and explore key events from U.S. history.
It’s been played by more than 3,000 Wyoming schoolchildren.
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