2011 – Junior Digital Game Design – Basic Plan

Basic Meeting Plans are designed to have minimal supplies and still hit the GSUSA Requirements. Most meetings can be done in a 90 minute time frame.

Items needed:

Printout of Grid Mazes from ByteEd for each scout
Paper for each scout
Pencil/pen for each scout
Troop coloring supplies (markers, crayons, or colored pencils)

Games are Useful

Info Needed: “Some jobs use video games to teach people new skills. Doctors and nurses use computer programs that show virtual medical situations to improve their skills. Pilots do the same thing using a simulated cockpit of an airplane.” – GSUSA Booklet

(Requirement 2 Earned)

Plan and Make and Test a Maze

Action Needed: Use the Grid Maze printouts to try out different grid mazes and see how they work. Then plan and create your own. Decorate it, theme it, or keep it plain. Create a character that will go through the maze if you want to. Test it out yourself when you are done before you share it with someone.

(Requirements 3 & 4 Earned)

Maze Swap

Action Needed: Partner up (or work in trios) and swap mazes to test it out. Give feedback on the ones you test and get feedback on your own maze.

Question Needed: Is there a way you could improve your maze if you did it again?

(Requirement 5 Earned)

Meeting End

Scouts can keep make and test new mazes until it’s time to go home. Give them challenges like a beach theme, or have two endings/start points.

General Notes

Note to Leaders – No Basic Plan compiled by The Badge Archive will earn multiple badges in one level. Part of being budget friendly is not costing more than the price of one official GSUSA badge per meeting.

Some badges will take two meetings to finish. This helps scouts enjoy activities and keeps the troop budget in mind by only needing one GSUSA badge for every two meetings. Troops may choose to get a fun patch for one of the meetings if scouts want a badge/patch for every meeting. Scouts can earn the fun patch if they only attend one meeting and get a fun patch and the official badge if they go to both.

Tia Kennard