Gaming competition to spread awareness against climate change
Indian Express: Soon, schoolchildren will join the green brigade and play an active role in the fight against climate change as the the concept and its effects would be demystified and will soon be presented in the form of computer games for them in the city.
Taking a step forward, a gaming competition — the Games Olympiad of Disaster And Climate Management (GODAC) — dedicated to environment causes and disaster management, has been organised for students of class VIII to X of Pune in August.
“The objective of this competition is to motivate students to act against climate change and the reason for using computer games is that it is easy to attract and connect with Gennext,” said Aparna Katre, CEO of Global Challenge Award (GCA), who has organised the event alongwith city-based Neeti Solutions.
The competition, beginning from August 22, will be held at three levels. The winner will get to participate in the International Climate Action Day at Copenhagen on October 24, which is also the World Climate Day, while the participants will get an update from GCA about the various career opportunities in the field of climate change.
To begin with, the competition will be held only in Pune because Neeti Solutions has a base in the city and has earlier conducted a gaming competition in disaster management. “We shall organise similar competitions in other cities in the coming months,” Katre said.
The first level, called PPM, will be held in respective schools. It comprises of five games — word search, memory game, my low carb diet plan, house design and snakes and ladders — where students will play for 90 minutes and will get their computerised scores. The top 350 scorers will qualify for the second round.
“In the second level — game café — students will come up with ideas for a computer game on climate change, which will be reviewed by a panel of independent judges and top 35 ideas will be awarded,” Karte said.
In the third level, United Nations Children’s Climate Assembly, the 35 finalists will play a strategy-based game and also make a paper presentation on climate change and ways to tackle it. The competition will end on October 3.
While there is no limit on the number of students who can participate from a school, students can also participate independently. Those interested can call Neeti Solutions on 020-25660564.
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