In The Station: Maine, students in rural Maine play location-based quests focused on four themes: Water, Forestry, Energy, and Food.
Made in partnership with Maine Math and Science Alliance
“These students have walked this trail dozens of times on school trips, but [their teacher] had never seen them actually think about the place . . . It was amazing and so satisfying to see!” -Susannah Gorden-Messer, STEM Education Specialist at MMSA
You play an adventurer who just got invited to join a secret group of explorers and scientists. Your guide: a puffin who helps you in your quest, but mostly just wants snacks.
In The Station Maine, each quest starts at a partner location in rural Maine. The partner locations are organizations working on concrete solutions that most kids would never get to interact with at this level. The content of individual quests was created by scientists and STEM education specialists at MMSA and their partners.
This game was created in partnership with MMSA.
Our team is based at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. We make learning games that bring contemporary research to the public, and we use the game data to understand how people learn.
Interested in making something together? email David Gagnon
for all other inquiries, please contact Reyna Groff
Read the stories behind our games and meet the researchers and teachers who have teamed up with us.
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