Display options
Share it on
Full text links
View full text

M Gilliam, B Hill, P Jagoda - Journal of Adolescent Health, 2016 - jahonline.org

Hexacago Health Academy (HHA): An Innovative Game-based Science and Health Curriculum Intervention for Underrepresented Youth.

Science and underrepresented

Hill, Jagoda

GSID: sKUsbERwT78J

Excerpt

Purpose Hexacago Health Academy (HHA) is a science and health intervention using game design to teach students about reproductive health and to promote interest in careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) and health. The Hexacago game board, depicting Chicago with a hexagon-grid overlay, was the program's centerpiece. During the 3-week, skills-building, summer program, students became game designers, designing games about systems-level approaches to improving reproductive health. They also interacted with …

Similar articles