Fuel Student Creativity at Urban Arts 🍏🥪🍕🥕🍊🍗
This year, enrollment is at an all-time high, and our students are preparing for an incredible year of growth and discovery. To support them in reaching their full potential, we’re asking for your help with a critical need—ensuring they have the fuel they need to succeed. At Urban Arts, we do more than provide a […]
A 2,400 MILE FIELD TRIP ✈️ FOR SIX URBAN ARTS STUDENTS
SEATTLE, WA—“Magic for Lunch” is on the agenda when gaming studios Wizards of the Coast and Nintendo partner with Urban Arts, hosting students on a 2,400 mile field trip. Urban Arts is the national nonprofit generating real mobility for underrepresented youth from low-income communities with a novel approach—STEAM futures through game design. Field trips with […]
100% OF URBAN ARTS’ 2024 SENIORS MATRICULATE, WITH A $&M SCHOLARSHIP HAUL 💰
Urban Arts free college access program offers intensive counseling and financial aid supports, enabling 100% of seniors to go to college with minimal-to-no debt. New York, NY—Urban Arts teaches video game design to underrepresented students as a pathway to college and career. As part of Urban Arts’ mission to create a diverse talent pipeline, we […]
ARCADE 2024 🙌🏾 SMASH SUCCESS
New York, NY, June 15—Totally new games to play, dedicated gamers in supportive community, plus industry pros leaning *IN*—#ARCADE 2024 marks another smash success. Over 100 students jammed the Urban Arts Learning Lab to 🍕🍪🍿, to play, to celebrate their work, and to cheer the Studio Teams on as they pitched their year-long efforts to […]
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 AP CompSci Curriculum—GAME ON—Endorsed by the College 🎓 Board
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 […]
The Power of Play
“Play is a human need.” Click here to hear Cynthia Williams, President, #wizardsofthecoast & @Hasbro Gaming, and Philip Courtney, CEO, Urban Arts, discuss the #educational benefits of #play—in school, in college and in career. On the EdUp podcast www.edupexperience.com/PhilipAndCynthia Cynthia Williams is President of Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Gaming. Cynthia leads strategy and […]
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 […]
