Games, Strategy & Design Program

About

Games, Strategy & Systems is a program for curious minds to explore how ideas, systems, and experiences work. Through hands-on masterclasses, students combine creativity, strategy, logic, and problem-solving to design, build, test, and improve their ideas.

Drawing on game theory and systems thinking, students explore rules, choices, patterns, interactions, and how individual decisions shape larger systems. Game design is a powerful learning medium, bringing together storytelling, technology, logic, design, problem-solving, and collaboration in meaningful, creative projects.

Objectives

• Encourage creative and systems-based thinking through hands-on exploration.
• Develop students’ ability to understand and work with rules, patterns, mechanics, and systems.
• Explore how choices and decisions can shape experiences and outcomes.
• Develop problem-solving, strategic thinking, and computational thinking.
• Connect creativity with technology, design, science, and real-world challenges.
• Build confidence in questioning, testing, refining, and communicating ideas.

Schedule

Please review each masterclass listed below to confirm dates specific to the masterclass.

Masterclasses