a suite of 7 games created to educate 4th – 6th Graders on the science behind telecommunications technologies.
A suite of 7 education games to teach 4th - 6th graders the science behind popular telecommunications technologies. Sponsored by the non-profit Telecom Pioneers, Project Connect consists of the following games:
Cable Connect - about undersea cable laying, and designed to teach about GPS positioning, longitude, latitude, and geography
Cellular Connect - about cellular phone networks, and designed to teach how antenna and tower placement affect coverage and services
Compression Connect - about compression, and designed to teach the principles of RLE and token compression in particular
Email Connect - about email and the internet, and designed to teach how TCP/IP network communication functions.
FiberOptic Connect - about fiber optics for data transfer, and designed to teach about bending and bouncing light, and about signal strength
Satellite Connect - about space-to-earch communications, and designed to teach about orbits, rocketry, and different satellite types
VoIP Connect - about voice over IP telephony, and designed to teach how phones can be used on the internet
All of the games challenge the player to perform tasks that are essential to each technology while learning about the key figures that developed said technologies. While the games look hard to adults, our experience showed kids quickly grasped the gameplay and were able to learn complex subjects in a short amount of time.
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