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Women, Simulation, and Social Change Workshops
Workshops at the YWCA serve as the forum for collaboration between RPI faculty and students and administrators and residents at the YWCA. The workshops include technology training and participant design of simulation software, combined with popular education exercises intended to provide opportunities for residents to articulate their goals and access resources needed to achieve their aspirations.
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The Community Informatics team held two major workshops under the title “Women, Simulation, and Social Change.” The first workshop was attended by 20 YWCA community members, covered the general idea of simulation and why it is of interest to community organizations and residents, and introduced participants to two major simulation “games”: The Sims and ROWEL’s State of Poverty Welfare Simulation. The second workshop was attended by 9 community members, who completed a popular education exercise called “The Tree of Life” in order to begin the process of storyboarding the simulation and to identify issues of concern to the community. |
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More Workshop Information (password required): Flyer,
Workshop 1 (.pdf) Tree of Life Exercise (.pdf; no password required) |
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