Polymorphic Games Interns Win Big at the North Idaho Science & Engineering Fair

April 3, 2019

Emily Ball and Ari Carter, high school interns in the University of Idaho’s Polymorphic Games studio, had a resoundingly successful day at the North Idaho Science & Engineering Fair in early March; leaving the event with three major awards and two special ones. Their educational video game Bees & Flowers, entered in the math/computer science/ integrated systems category, received a gold medal, a best-in-category, and was the second runner up project for the entire fair out of 83 entries. Ari and Emily’s game also received two special awards including the Outstanding Research Project award from the Idaho Academy of Science and the Intel Excellence in Computer Science award.

Bees & Flowers

Bees & Flowers is a video game made to explain evolutionary concepts to elementary and middle school-aged children by showing the coevolutionary relationship between honey bees and flowers. Working in the Polymorphic Games studio in IRIC 107, Emily created the art and 3D models, while Ari programmed the mechanics of the game and the evolutionary model.

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