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MARYLAND STATE WINNER |
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11-year-old
Sierra wanted to make school work fun
as well as
educational. So she decided to put two
of her favorite things together - monkey
and math to create a video game for kids
at school. In her game, "Monkey Around
With Math", you are the monkey, and you
get to swing from tree to tree
collecting bananas. The more bananas you
collect, the more points you get. Each
banana is a math problem (addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division,
metric system, fractions, etc.). Sierra
says her game will increase your speed
and skill in math, while having fun at
the same time. Her video game idea won first place in
the
2009
By Kids For Kids Invent A Game Maryland
Challenge.
Sierra won a
$1000 (face value) U.S. savings bond and
a Best Buy gift card.
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Sierra nominated
Marcy L. Moller
as the teacher who inspired her the most
to come up with her winning idea. Sierra
said she created a math board game in Marcy's
class which was the basis for her
winning video game idea, “Monkey Around
with Math”. Marcy
received a $250 retail gift card from By
Kids For Kids.
"My goal as an educator is to inspire
children to be life-long learners. I can
only teach them for a few short months,
but if I share with them my love of
learning than hopefully they will be
inspired to go out and continue learning
on their own as Sierra has." - Marcy
L. Moller |
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