Mobile Quest Summer Camp '09

Overview
Mobile Quest was a week-long game design camp where 5th graders created games using Nokia N85 smart phones. During Mobile Quest students stepped into the role of game designers: playing, analyzing and creating games for their peers to play. Campers worked with professional game designers to experience first-hand how to turn great ideas into great games using smart phones.

During Mobile Quest, campers worked with experts from the Center for Mobile Creativity at Parsons and used the GPS, bluetooth and semacode- reading features of the smart phones to discuss what it means to collect pictures, texts and information on phones. Posing important questions like: Whose information is it? Where does the information go?, campers built games that used the smartphones to make games that used the city as its game space.

Mobile Quest was open to 5th grade students. No technology or game design experience was needed. Just curiosity and excitement to learn new things, all with a special Institute of Play and Quest to Learn twist.

For more information about Mobile Quest, see the Mobile Quest blog or check out the Mobile Learning Institute's Mobile Quest video.

Details
Mobile Quest was held from July 20–24, 2009, Monday - Friday, 9am to 3pm, at Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, 10th floor.

Mobile Quest was open to all 5th grade students. There was no tuition or materials fee and students were accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Mobile Learning Institute Mobile Quest Summer Camp is presented in partnership with the Pearson Foundation, Nokia, Parsons The New School for Design and the Institute of Play.