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Think Like a Game Designer / Think Like an App Designer (TLAGD)

In this 8-week program students work in teams with industry-leading game designers and engineering students to learn the basics of game development. Available at an introductory, beginner, and intermediate level, club members graduate having zero experience in coding to building apps and storyboards, designing characters, and creating virtual worlds using programming developed by MIT. 

Students come away with math and science skills, learn how to collaborate with others, how to research, and how to move their ideas forward-skills valuable in any endeavor.

Why TLAGD - and Why Now?

Explain that this area is a growing industry and how coding/game design is implemented in the real world 

174,400 
number of computer programming jobs

$93,000 
average salary for coding

source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Who is this program for?

This eight-week program is ideal for students who want to expand their learning horizons and explore the rapidly growing field of coding. 

• elementary school students
• middle school students
• high school students

Key Takeaways

Over the course of this eight-week program, you will learn the principles of coding through the basics of game development. Specifically:

• ​you will acquire coding knowledge
• you will apply what you learned to game design
• you will expand your math and science skills 

Program Highlights 

Earn a Think Like a Game Designer Calculus Roundtable certificate 

Insights from CR Fellows and Game Designer Industry Leaders 

Activities and assignments in each module demonstrate your understanding of concepts

Learn to code and build virtual worlds

New information is connected to existing knowledge and real-world tasks

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