MEGA Generation: The Game with Impact

+ Knowledge and skills to initiate own social / environmental project or startup;
+ Record of measurable positive social / environmental impact for each player and players' team;
+ Learning experience customized for each player by him-/herself according to his/her interests, passion and goals;
+ Intercultural learning through volunteering in different social / environmental organizations worldwide registered in the Game with Impact;
+ Network of peers benefitting from community learning;
+ Personalized coaching and mentoring in social / green project management and business development.

a) Main activities are planning of game strategy, taking on quests, involving in challenges & missions that require active participation, accessing e-learning materials, collaborating with other players, and submitting achievement reports. All of them are modeled by means of gamification.
b) There are both online (e-learning, research) and offline (active participation in real world) activities.
c) Players are encouraged to visit the Game on a daily basis.
d) There are missions/quests requiring different amount of time (1-12h). On average players devote 12-24h per month for the Game.
e) Each mission is supported by e-learning materials & video training delivered by MEGA and our partners.
f) Players do theoretic learning and planning online, while practical learning through quest accomplishment is performed offline. There are diverse quests, so players choose the ones they like most.

Readiness to Re-imagine Learning is proven by the statistics on Environmental & Entrepreneurial Education. They become more prominent, as shown by the number of Google searches with 100% growth from 2007 to 112,000,000 hits in 2014. Our research also displays a shift to the need for new learning forms: from traditional transmissive learning to collaborative & problem-based one.
It causes such concepts as gamification in learning and play-based education to gain more attention and application. They offer great potential in re-imagining learning to meet the needs and trends of the modern world.

Learning through Play is a natural state of a young being to receive the most important information about the surrounding world by using all its senses, practice different models of behavior within it, choose the most appropriate ones, and thus efficiently adapt to the environment. Playful learning is present in the behavior of all animals with a more or less developed brain. The nature has chosen this type of basic learning, because it engages all information receivers: somatic, auditive, visual, and intellectual (S.A.V.I. model). This justifies the crucial importance of play in learning.

2014
Costs: 11229$
5732$ (51%) IT development; 1200$ (11%) marketing; 4297$ (38%) administration
Funds: 11423$
4645$ (41%) awards/grants; 6778$ (59%) research

2015
Costs: 46082$
80% IT development; 17% marketing; 3% administration
Funds: 46750$
58% revenue; 22% awards/grants; 20% research

MEGA is a hybrid organization consisting of:
1) Non-profit entity in Moldova that is responsible for engaging and building up MEGA community, performing research on environmental education, and organizing other projects based on using MEGA Generation.
2) For-profit entity to be fully established in the UK with the focus on managing the MEGA Generation web platform and app, as well as administering revenue streams and financial sustainability.

The top priority now is to finalize development & testing of the MEGA Generation platform and app and then launch them on 05.06.2015 (World Environment Day). Therefore 80% of the funding will go to programming and design. The rest will be used for engaging youth and NGOs in testing our innovation.

In delivering practical environmental learning through MEGA Generation we have joined forces with Moldovan branches of such global youth organizations as AIESEC and JCI. They assist us in forming the MEGA community, enriching its members with knowledge, and mentoring young green changemakers. And the company Bright Games develops the web platform and mobile app for all that.
More details are available here: www.megageneration.com/partners.

Due to my experience as Trusted Reviewer, I managed to interact with several other entrants and Pacesetters. Before the Challenge we had already agreed on partnership with EduJoc in creating missions for MEGA Generation. Nowadays we discuss cooperation with Puppets for Future and RedRover Learning.

Year 2029. MEGA Generation is the #1 gamified learning system on environmental protection and management worldwide. We are now celebrating the growth to 7 mln registered users (around 0.1% of global population), who benefit from accessible, practical, fun, and impact-generating learning experience through our innovation. Due to that experience there are 15 000 green startups established that improve the quality of environment on a global scale.

1) Coverage of delivering learning value:
Number of registered users, growth rate of users pool, retention rate of existing users.
2) Engagement into learning activities:
Number of missions successfully completed by users, number of users per each on-line training.
3) Social / environmental impact:
Quality of mission reports by users, improvements of environmental quality compared to status quo (here we hope to see great results over time).