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Prospective Q2L parents--we want to hear from you to answer your questions about the school. Below is contact information that you can use to reach out to members of the Q2L team. Email is the best approach right now, and it is very useful if you include your phone number in the body of the email, so that we can follow up with you. MANY apologies to parents who have not been able to get through--we've had a large number of inquiries and don't want you to be discouraged if you haven't been able to reach us. So please reach out. We want to hear from you!

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The Institute of Play will be twittering from GLS 5.0, the fifth annual Games + Learning + Society Conference in Madison, Wisconsin from June 10 - 12. Then a sub-set of us will move on to present The Dynamic Classroom: Collaborations between Game Designers and Teachers at the 2009 Games Education Summit from June 16 -17, at Carnegie Mellon's Technology Entertainment Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

We are delighted to announce that Quest to Learn will be located on the M47 campus at 225 East 23rd Street in NYC. In close proximity to our partners, the Institute of Play and The New School, Quest to Learn is accessible by public transportation via the 6, R, and W trains and the M23 bus line. We look forward to welcoming our new students this fall!
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IOPers Tracy Gromek and Leah Gilliam will be presenting at the upcoming 2009 Game Education Summit to be held June 16-17, at Carnegie Mellon's Technology Entertainment Center in Pittsburgh PA.

Their presentation, 'The Dynamic Classroom: Collaborations between Game Designers and Teachers,' promises to be a lively discussion as they reflect on the Institute of Play's work with curriculum specialists and educators. The presentation will use a game-based curricular unit—the Annual Blubonian-Spanish Treasure Hunt—as a point of entry into a larger examination of the myriad issues facing game designers and educators when creating effective and dynamic classroom learning experiences. Developed as part of the Institute of Play's Summer Teachers' Institute, the Annual Blubonian-Spanish Treasure Hunt was created for first-year Spanish students in the 6th grade at a New York City public school. Read full synopsis