This All-Women Team Wants To Facilitate Farming Education With One Of The World’s Favorite Pastimes:
This All-Women Team Wants To Facilitate Farming Education With One Of The World’s Favorite Pastimes:
This All-Women Team Wants To Facilitate Farming Education With One Of The World’s Favorite Pastimes: Gaming
By Brianne Garret
October 6, 2020
Summary
When two gaming experts and one social networking founder came together to solve one of the biggest issues in agriculture technology-the intersection of human health and animal health-the result was exactly what you might think: an app.
Make no mistake: "We're not just playing games here" says Ariel Yi Chi Chang, 2020 30 Under 30 honoree and founder of GeGe Design.
Upon successful completion of the game, users can receive a "Certificate of adoption" from app-affiliated independent farms to apply lessons from the app to real-life advocacy.
Indiana Soybean Alliance CEO and board member of event sponsor AgriNovus Indiana, Courtney Kingery, one of the hackathon judges, posed an interesting question to the group: If the point of the game is to ultimately raise healthy animals to eventually become healthy food, will the slaughtering process be integrated into the game?
They don't intend to pretend, but the point of the game isn't to dissuade people from eating meat, either, says the team.
For the all-women, all person of color trio merging gaming and ag tech-two industries dominated by white men-in 48 hours and in three different time zones, attention to detail was prime.
From creating mini simulations of the game to identifying the real-life organizations Happy Herd would partner with, they decided they could really be onto something.
Reference
Garrett, B. (2020, October 06). This All-Women Team Wants To Facilitate Farming Education With One Of The World's Favorite Pastimes: Gaming. Retrieved October 07, 2020, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/briannegarrett/2020/10/06/this-all-women-team-wants-to-facilitate-farming-education-with-one-of-the-worlds-favorite-pastimes-gaming/