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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 7747253" data-attributes="member: 3285"><p>Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts both teach gaming elements as optional badges to their membership. But when it comes to introducing role-playing games, they each take a different approach. With the recent announcement about Boy Scouts accepting girls as members, it's worth reviewing how the two organizations are teaching kids about gaming.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]115274[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here's the other articles in this series:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-the-scouts-teach-gaming-to-kids.665414/" target="_blank">How Scouts Teach Gaming to Kids</a> (this article)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Week 1:</strong> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6163-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-1-What%92s-a-Game" target="_blank">What's a Game?</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Week 2:</strong> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6164-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-2-Jenga" target="_blank">Jenga</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Week 3:</strong> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6226-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-3-Family-Feud" target="_blank">Star Wars Family Feud</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Week 4: </strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6228-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-4-%96-1-2-Switch" target="_blank">1-2-Switch</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Week 5:</strong> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6266-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-5-Dungeons-Dragons" target="_blank">Dungeons & Dragons</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Weeks 6-9:</strong> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6272-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Weeks-6-9-Intellectual-Property" target="_blank">Intellectual Property</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Week 10: </strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6275-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-10-Wrap-Up" target="_blank">Wrap-Up</a></li> </ul><p>[h=3]<strong>Girl Scouts and Gaming</strong>[/h]Girl Scouts features several badges that are tied to tabletop and role-playing games, including <em>Playing the Past, Making Games, Board Game Design Challenge </em>and <em>Game Visionary.</em></p><p></p><p>The <em>Playing the Past </em>badge is specifically about role-playing:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>The <em>Making Games </em>badge makes just about any game:</p><p></p><p>The <em>Board Game Design Challenge </em>badge is more about traditional spinner games:</p><p></p><p>The <em>Game Visionary </em>badge emphasizes game development:</p><p>The steps are more outdoor-oriented, ranging from breaking the ice, to imagining all the world's a board, to creating a physical challenge and puzzles, and making an ultra scavenger hunt. Of all the steps in achieving the badge, <em>Imagining the World's a Board</em> comes closest to role-playing -- although it's more Live Action Role-Playing:</p><p>For Girl Scouts, there doesn't appear to be a formal connection to the gaming community that tabletop gamers participate in it. Girl Scout leader Gary Astleford in San Diego, CA developed his own patch and program known as <a href="https://geekandsundry.com/forget-cookies-girl-scouts-join-forces-to-defeat-worgs-and-wolves/" target="_blank">Dungeon Scouts</a>:</p><p></p><p>The patch is unique to the San Diego and not currently listed on the <a href="https://www.girlscouts.org/en/our-program/badges/badge_explorer.html" target="_blank">Girl Scout's Bad Explorer site</a>. It remains to be seen if the badge will be enjoy more widespread support among the Girl Scouts. It's quite different for the Boy Scouts.</p><p>[h=3]<strong>Boy Scouts and Gaming</strong>[/h]The Boy Scout Merit Badge Series features a <em>Game Design </em>badge. Although it looks these days like it's primarily focused on video game design, the Merit Badge Series booklet tells a different story. The Badge encompasses everything from programming to tabletop role-playing games. It references "Games with Miniatures" first:</p><p></p><p>Role-playing games are curiously referred to as "Text-Based Role-Playing Games":</p><p></p><p>The glossary definition of "gamemaster" is an excellent summary too:</p><p>There's good reason that the booklet sums up tabletop role-playing so well: Pete Fenlon and Alex Yeager of Mayfair Games were contributing writers.</p><p></p><p>A survey of how the two Scout programs are teaching kids about games is illustrative of the evolution of gendered play in gaming: The Girl Scouts has a series of disparate badge elements that collectively teach gaming, while the Boy Scouts has one badge that encompasses all gaming into one badge. Here's hoping that as both organizations continue to evolve, gaming takes its rightful place as a skill worth developing for kids of all ages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="talien, post: 7747253, member: 3285"] Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts both teach gaming elements as optional badges to their membership. But when it comes to introducing role-playing games, they each take a different approach. With the recent announcement about Boy Scouts accepting girls as members, it's worth reviewing how the two organizations are teaching kids about gaming. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="61659_main-01.jpg"]115274[/ATTACH][/CENTER] Here's the other articles in this series: [LIST] [*][URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-the-scouts-teach-gaming-to-kids.665414/']How Scouts Teach Gaming to Kids[/URL] (this article) [*][B]Week 1:[/B] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6163-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-1-What%92s-a-Game']What's a Game?[/URL] [*][B]Week 2:[/B] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6164-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-2-Jenga']Jenga[/URL] [*][B]Week 3:[/B] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6226-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-3-Family-Feud']Star Wars Family Feud[/URL] [*][B]Week 4: [/B][URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6228-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-4-%96-1-2-Switch']1-2-Switch[/URL] [*][B]Week 5:[/B] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6266-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-5-Dungeons-Dragons']Dungeons & Dragons[/URL] [*][B]Weeks 6-9:[/B] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6272-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Weeks-6-9-Intellectual-Property']Intellectual Property[/URL] [*][B]Week 10: [/B][URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6275-Game-Design-Like-a-Boy-Scout-Week-10-Wrap-Up']Wrap-Up[/URL] [/LIST] [h=3][B]Girl Scouts and Gaming[/B][/h]Girl Scouts features several badges that are tied to tabletop and role-playing games, including [I]Playing the Past, Making Games, Board Game Design Challenge [/I]and [I]Game Visionary.[/I] The [I]Playing the Past [/I]badge is specifically about role-playing: [INDENT][/INDENT] The [I]Making Games [/I]badge makes just about any game: The [I]Board Game Design Challenge [/I]badge is more about traditional spinner games: The [I]Game Visionary [/I]badge emphasizes game development: The steps are more outdoor-oriented, ranging from breaking the ice, to imagining all the world's a board, to creating a physical challenge and puzzles, and making an ultra scavenger hunt. Of all the steps in achieving the badge, [I]Imagining the World's a Board[/I] comes closest to role-playing -- although it's more Live Action Role-Playing: For Girl Scouts, there doesn't appear to be a formal connection to the gaming community that tabletop gamers participate in it. Girl Scout leader Gary Astleford in San Diego, CA developed his own patch and program known as [URL='https://geekandsundry.com/forget-cookies-girl-scouts-join-forces-to-defeat-worgs-and-wolves/']Dungeon Scouts[/URL]: The patch is unique to the San Diego and not currently listed on the [URL='https://www.girlscouts.org/en/our-program/badges/badge_explorer.html']Girl Scout's Bad Explorer site[/URL]. It remains to be seen if the badge will be enjoy more widespread support among the Girl Scouts. It's quite different for the Boy Scouts. [h=3][B]Boy Scouts and Gaming[/B][/h]The Boy Scout Merit Badge Series features a [I]Game Design [/I]badge. Although it looks these days like it's primarily focused on video game design, the Merit Badge Series booklet tells a different story. The Badge encompasses everything from programming to tabletop role-playing games. It references "Games with Miniatures" first: Role-playing games are curiously referred to as "Text-Based Role-Playing Games": The glossary definition of "gamemaster" is an excellent summary too: There's good reason that the booklet sums up tabletop role-playing so well: Pete Fenlon and Alex Yeager of Mayfair Games were contributing writers. A survey of how the two Scout programs are teaching kids about games is illustrative of the evolution of gendered play in gaming: The Girl Scouts has a series of disparate badge elements that collectively teach gaming, while the Boy Scouts has one badge that encompasses all gaming into one badge. Here's hoping that as both organizations continue to evolve, gaming takes its rightful place as a skill worth developing for kids of all ages. [/QUOTE]
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