Board Game Enrichment

In a time when video games consume much of our students' spare time, many of our students never experience high-quality strategy board games. High-quality games provide learning opportunities in team building, negotiation, complex planning, problem-solving, collaboration, logic, strategy, and reasoning skills.

Project Impact STEM Academy has built a large collection of high-quality Euro-board games and card games. We have games for all ages, K-12. A lot of thought goes into the selection of games, thinking through the STEM and workforce readiness skills that the games develop, as well as thinking through how to develop the intended skill from a developmental perspective. These games are used to enrich learning, rainy-day recess, and after-school enrichment.

After-school enrichment program used to reinforce work readiness skills, open to all students K-12. Tuesdays is focused on 5-12 grades and Thursday is focused on K-4. We have between 16-40 students that attend per night.

Logic & Reasoning

Takenoko, Ticket to Ride, Ticket to Ride First Journey, Catan, Catan Jr, My First Stone Age, Robot Turtles, My First Carcassonne, Greetings from Grandville, Evolution, Pandemic, Forbidden Island, Castle Panic, and more build and reinforce logic and reasoning skills.

Applied Mathematics

Games such as Numbers League, Sleeping Queens, Clumsy Thief, Kingdomino, Draginomino, Bohnanza, My First Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, & Ticket to Ride First Journey all work on the application of mathematics and flexibility with numbers.

Critical Thinking

Takenoko, Ticket to Ride, Ticket to Ride First Journey, Catan, Catan Jr, My First Stone Age, Robot Turtles, My First Carcassonne, Greetings from Grandville, Evolution, Pandemic, Forbidden Island, Castle Panic, and more build and reinforce critical thinking skills.

Teamwork & Collaboration

My First Castle Panic, Castle Panic, Forbidden Island, and Pandemic are all collaborative games in which everyone wins or everyone loses. These games teach and reinforce the importance of teamwork & collaboration.