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Career XRcade

An Immersive Learning Experience for Students by Students to Explore Different Career Paths

Powered by students from Arizona States University's Meteor Studio in Partnership with J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute and Made Possible by Verizon

☄️ Director: Dr. Robert LiKamWa

📝 Project Lead: Hanieh Khaleghian

💻 Lead Developers: Dion Pimentel, Nathan Anderson, Omkar Watvisave, Agustin Ballesteros

🎨 Lead Designers: Julianna Piechowicz, Hanieh Khaleghian

💻 Developers: Suhaas Godavarthy, Jackson Ourada, Heli Vachhani, Allyson Huang, Harwinder Singh, Abhiraj Chaudhary, Erofey Izotov

🎨 Designers: Steven Hernandez, Michael Wilcoxen, Shailee Shah, Robert Delligatti, Michael Shaughnessy, Mackenzie Leichtman

💻 Previous Developers: Austin Porter, Morgan O'Mahony, Nathan Lathrum, Prakhar Bhartiya, Taetum Knebel, Sakan Pengdis

🎨 Previous Designers: Amanda Federico, Francesca Galvan, Zoe Purcell, Jesus Franco Yescas, J.R. Esguerra, Evan Koutsogiannis

📑 Short Paper (PDF)

Introduction

Career XRcade is designed to help high school students bridge the gap between their educational goals and the skills needed for their future careers. Using desktops or VR headsets, students can jump into various gamified experiences and embark on dynamic learning journeys, bringing to life future careers and the skills needed to thrive in fast-growing industries. There are a variety of virtual worlds introducing you to in-demand careers within Cybersecurity and Esports. Each Career Land is filled with interactive exhibits, activities, games, and interviews that showcase the facets of specific career paths within these industries.

Through dynamic, gamified learning, Career XRcade aims to inspire and excite students about their future careers, encouraging them to make intentional decisions about their education and career paths. Plus, by improving students' imaginative skills and self-efficacy, we believe that Career XRcade can help students become the creators of their own futures.

Key Goals

  • Fun, memorable: Make education on different career paths enjoyable so that they become more memorable for students in the future when reflecting on potential careers.
  • Easy to understand: Complicated concepts should be easy to pick up and understand at all level of high school aged students.
  • Inspire and educate:Inspire students to consider niche career paths within cybersecurity and esports they may not have known about before.

Cybersecurity Land

Career XRcade Cybersecurity Land is a virtual world in which students can explore different career paths in cybersecurity. This exploratory environment consists of a central hub that leads to 5 career exhibits:

  • Information security analyst
  • Security operation analyst
  • Blue team analyst
  • Red team analyst
  • Mobile architect
Different interactions and minigames educate students on important requirements, responsibilities, and vocabulary used and needed on a daily basis in these different roles.

Esports Land

Career XRcade Esports Land is a virtual world in which students can explore different career paths in Esports. Esports Land is structured around a central hub, leading to five career exhibits:

  • Game designer
  • Game developer
  • Team manager
  • Esports marketer
  • Content creator
Games, simulations, and interactions allow the players to experiment what it would be like to work in an Esports role as well as the responsibilities they would carry.

Supported by Verizon

In collaboration with the Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute