GameDesk Awarded Motorola Innovation Grant

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SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Jul. 12 /CSRwire/ – The Motorola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), today announced the 2010 grant recipients of its signature Innovation Generation program, which provides more than $7.5 million to K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs across the country. Among those recipients was GameDesk, Inc. GameDesk’s Math Game Curriculum will enable students to synthesize and extract mathematical concepts through a sequence that allows the students to gain a sense of control over math as a tool for multiple uses. Students will work through their own ideas, pulling from hobbies, cultural interests, personal experiences, and scientific challenges to develop out their own projects.

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GameDesk is a 501(c)3 nonprofit research, development, and outreach organization that seeks to rethink learning through play, making, and interaction.

We look to transform the learning experience, help close the achievement gap, and deeply engage students in learning core curriculum.

The organization (originally developed out of research and support at the University of Southern California's IMSC) has now been in development, practice, and/or evaluation for over four years in various schools, learning centers, and homes nationally.