Because our program helps children unearth and develop their entrepreneurial/life skills such as adaptability, flexibility, interpersonal skills, patience, discipline, motivation and other “soft” skills that are not objectively measured.

Let us answer this question with a few quotes by academics that specialize in this field.

“Games help us develop non-cognitive skills that are as fundamental as cognitive skills in explaining how we learn and if we succeed. Skills such as patience and discipline, which one should acquire as a child but often does not, correlate with success better than IQ scores do. And those non-cognitive skills – that is, not what you know but how you behave – are far better suited to a game context than to a traditional classroom and textbook context.”

“… Human minds are plug-and-play devices; they’re not meant to be used alone. They’re meant to be used in networks.” Games allow us to do that – they allow us to use “collective intelligence.” James Gee, a professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University.

Another quote:
“Access (to games) doesn’t solve the problem. It is conversation that is crucial to how literacy develops; it’s interaction. The crucial thing with books is that you learn to read like a writer, you think about how it was designed… Giving a kid the game won’t work. You have to get the kid to play like a designer. You have to interact…” James Gee, a professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University.

We have a very large variety of board games, card games and other tabletop games from around the world.

We design a custom curriculum of games based on the age and dynamics of each group of children we work with. To see our areas of focus please visit our program page.