Utah ACTE 2025

Students are most invested in curriculum and projects when they have a voice and choice in their project topic and parameters. As part of my programming course and game development course curriculum, my students pitch project ideas, vote on them and then produce the winning projects in teams. Additionally, my programming students provide real-world problems to be used as part of final term projects. By advocating for student choice in projects across 7 semesters and with hundreds of different students, I have refined and created a very streamlined pitching, voting and project decision process. I will be highlighting this process, giving advice on potential challenges, and opening up a discussion as to how this could be applied/brought into my audience's classroom.