Since 2020, I have been teaching participants in over 50 courses to create ambitious and instructive computer games. My name is Markus Valle-Klann and my daughter is a student at the German School of Geneva.
In our online courses, participants learn to make effective use of their home computers and other information technology to carry out challenging projects as a team.
Our goal is to develop a number of essential skills for school, studies and professional life.
This includes the ability to solve complex problems systematically, but also curiosity, self-reliance, initiative, creativity, reliability and team work.
Since the courses are in English, we also practice effective communication in that language.
An important objective for me, as a former Fraunhofer research director, is to introduce participants to the scientific method and to provide them with first-hand experience of how research and development relate to business.
Developing games offers a fun and enjoyable way to do that. This is because every little game we develop is also a simulation with underlying assumptions that can be subjected to scientific investigation.
Currently, over a dozen students between 11 and 17 years of age from the German School of Geneva and other schools in Switzerland and France are participating in MakeFest courses, about half of them since 2020.
Learn more about What we do, the Team, the available Courses and What parents say about them.
And take a look at the Advent Calendar Game that we have been developing for the last three years and will be publishing this year.