2024 BATTLE OF THE BOROUGHS 🏆
Brooklyn, NY—Urban Arts remains thrilled to be involved with Battle of the Boroughs (BOTB)—an exciting K-12 #scholastic #esports competition from NYC Public Schools, Minecraft Education, and C40’s Reinventing Cities aimed at empowering young New Yorkers to shape their city’s future. BOTB is a three-round elimination-style event where student teams design inclusive, future-ready city spaces. Mayor’s […]
Urban Arts & The College Board: A STEM STEAM Partnership
Game On, an innovative custom curriculum from Urban Arts to teach Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) through Game Design, has recently been endorsed by the College Board. As the only endorsed curriculum powered by Unity’s world-leading platform of tools, Game On teaches computer science through the art and technology of game development, informing […]
OUR FIRST SPRING 🌴 BREAK INTENSIVE POPS OFF 🎉
Spring Break Game Design 👾 Lab 🥽 wrapped up 3-days of intensive hard fun 🧠🥳 with a crash course in #gamedesign for almost 50 NYC high schoolers. Students learned the basics of digital art, music and narrative with expert game designers and produced two games—a text-based interactive story and a simple Unity Technologies platformer remixed with original art, music & sound effects. (Plus, every […]
2ND ANNUAL UNRELEASED GAMES 🔥
March 16, 2024 We had our 2nd annual Unreleased Games Arcade at CCNY, in partnership with the Gaming Pathways initiative. At UGA, high school game design students playtested games in various stages of development presented by local college and indie game developers. Students then vote on their favorite games to win one of four awards: Best Visual […]
SPAWN, SPRINT AND EDUCATE
New York, NY—Urban Arts, a STEAM nonprofit serving underrepresented students nationally, is expanding into middle schools with Creative Coders, a rigorous curriculum in partnership with Minecraft Education. Supported by a highly competitive $4M Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Urban Arts will partner with 70+ schools and 3,450 students […]
Teachers Gotta Game: #CSEdWeek Console Commitment
By Amy Patterson, Chief Program Officer, Urban Arts Teachers, here’s a new call to action. Your quest. Your mission. Your… permission? You should play more video games. We know the video game stereotypes: glazed eyes and sullen kids, the steady drumbeat of gunfire and blast of siren behind drawn curtains. But here’s the reality: video […]