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CLS: Authentic Esports, Enriched Curriculum

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Cambridge, MA

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Mark Deppe, UCI Esports, Acting Director
Mimi Ito, UCI, Professor
Katie Salen, UCI, Professor
Kurt Squire, UCI, Professor
Gerald Solomon, Samueli Foundation, Executive Director
Constance Steinkuehler, UCI, Professor

Esports, or professional competitive video games, are an already popular and rapidly growing medium with strong appeal to many students, especially young males. Presently, these games are under-utilized in academic contexts, disconnected from schooling or seen as a distraction to learning. In this project, we leverage student interest in esports by creating a new, authentic competitive high school esports league and to match this league development with rigorous academic content. By wedding student interest and participation in the robust esports community, our work will improve our understanding of competitive gaming, develop connections between game practices and school content (especially STEM), and improve esports communities through positive leadership and mentoring. In this symposium, we present our ongoing progress after six months of development, detailing key elements of the program including curriculum, coaching, league structure, and research.

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