New Meaningful Play Conference collabs announced *AND* there's still time to take advantage of early bird registration pricing! ⏰🐦

@meaningfulplay.bsky.social · 2d ago

🎉We’re delighted to announce #KaminScienceCenter and the #ChildrensMuseumofPittsburgh are partnering with us for Meaningful Play! We have an amazing roster of Pittsburgh-area partners offering attendees their own brand of playful experiences. Register 👉 tinyurl.com/ymxbfhvp

🕹️🚨Researchers are looking for participants for a @cmu.edu Human-Computer Interaction study exploring how design constraints affect creativity in game creation. Create small games using a Bitsy-inspired game creation platform. Learn more and apply ▶️ creativegamestudy.com

We’re delighted to see our friends over @antithesis.com have released the first installment of their course on property-based testing following our consulting collab. Our work focused on the pedagogy of complex technical concepts, helping them turn abstract ideas into clear, actionable guidance.

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If you've heard about PBT and want to learn more, we just published a 30-minute introductory video with hands-on exercises that helps you develop an intuition for what PBT is and how to implement it, in collaboration with @keles.bsky.social, and @cmuctp.bsky.social antithesis.com/resources/vi...

FINAL WEEK TO REGISTER! Play, Pause, Rethink: Exploring AI Through Games & Classroom Creativity 📅 Monday, Aug. 17 🕙 10 AM 📍 CMU Campus Educators explore AI literacy through play, storytelling, and systems design. Registration closes soon! 👉 www.cmu.edu/ctp/workshop...

🥳 Celebrating Victor Jhou and team as Best in Health & Wellness nominees at this year's Games for Change festival! Victor was part of the first group of students from the Entertainment Technology Center working with us on a concentration in transformational play. #G4C2026 #CampMovewell

CTP Workshop Registration OPEN!! Join us Aug. 17 at CMU for Play, Pause, Rethink: Exploring AI Through Games & Classroom Creativity. Hands-on activities. Ethical design. Game-based learning. Real examples you can use tomorrow. Only 20 seats - Grab yours today!

Exploring AI - Center for Transformational Play - Carnegie Mellon University

Explore foundational ideas from transformational play and game design and learn how to and adapt AI literacy activities for use in your own learning environment.

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Help us make Meaningful Play an eight-heart event! Collaborate with us and let’s talk about how your org can support the state of play and joy in Pittsburgh. Learn more:👉 tinyurl.com/3947kuaw #schellgames #SimcoachGames #CodeJoy #remakelearning #SouthFayetteSchoolDistrict

Registration is OPEN for Meaningful Play 2026! 🎮📅 Oct 13–15 + Pittsburgh Play Day on Oct 16. Researchers, designers, devs, educators, students, NGOs - if you make or study games, join us this fall. Lock in your spot today! 👉 Conference Website: tinyurl.com/ymxbfhvp

Happy Canada Day to our neighbors to the north! Celebrate with a great Canadian game: Trivial Pursuit! Invented in Montreal in '79 by Canadian journalists Chris Haney and Scott Abbott. Inspiration came from Scrabble (and maybe beer). 100 million copies sold. Beauty, Eh? 🎲🍁 tinyurl.com/yx4z7xrf

🧠Study participants wanted! Over 18 and based in Pittsburgh? Students working with the Center for Transformational Play are recruiting for an in-person co-design session exploring: 💭 Thought Trading 🕹️ AI-based AR game interaction 🤗 Supporting emotional well-being Learn more: tinyurl.com/4dx5d77b

Ready to unlock fresh skills for your team? Our new workshops catalog is LIVE. We offer actionable, research‑powered workshops for nonprofits, executive education, and any org interested in how playful learning can level up your work.👉 tinyurl.com/3n2hhu78

We're thrilled to share a fantastic new resource from our friends at the @cooneycenter.bsky.social - The Co-Design with Kids Toolkit is a website full of resources to help you make technology with kids, for kids. Check it out: codesignwithkids.org #codesignwithkids

Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop@cooneycenter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’re so excited to announce a brand-new resource: The Co-Design with Kids Toolkit! The Toolkit is a website designed to help organizations meaningfully partner with children throughout the design process. Swim on over to codesignwithkids.org today! @waltonfamilyfdn.bsky.social

📅🚨 Time is running out to submit your hosted session proposal to Meaningful Play! We’re looking for engaging pitches for workshops, roundtables, game play, and more. If you’ve got an idea that brings people together, share it today! The deadline for proposals is June 15. 👉 tinyurl.com/34a53njn

🎮 Meaningful Play 2026 needs YOU! We’re looking for thoughtful, engaged reviewers to help shape this year’s conference. Reviewers needed for: 📝 Full Papers 📌 Posters 🎮 Games & Prototypes Assignments go out June 1 and reviews are due July 8 - sign up today! Learn More: tinyurl.com/bdzzxkcf

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Games, Lighting Talks, and Poster submissions for the 2026 Meaningful Play Conference are due THIS Friday May 15. Other submission deadlines: * Hosted Sessions: June 15 For conference details and to share your work visit 👉 tinyurl.com/34a53njn

📢 Meaningful Play 2026 Deadline Alert! The deadline to submit Games, Lighting Talk Proposals, and Posters to the October 2026 Meaningful Play conference in Pittsburgh is May 15! Other key dates: Hosted Sessions Deadline: June 15 Don’t miss out! Submit your work today👉 tinyurl.com/34a53njn

We’re thrilled to have been part of the Remake Learning Days ONEXONE event hosted by @cmu.edu's Entertainment Technology Center. Our contribution? A creature combine built by attendees - all without being able to see what they were building. As promised, here’s the finished product:

🚀 New CTP research alert! Director Jessica Hammer and collaborators just published work in @springernature.com's Computer Science journal exploring how custom science gateways can help people engage with STEM at every age. 👉 rdcu.be/fcN8S

What do you get when you bring Bigfoot and Mothman together? Better teamwork! "Monsters of Appalachia" is a LARP that turns cryptids, conflict, and community-building into a powerful learning experience - and is an example of the power of transformational play research @cmu.edu!

Playing on Common Ground: CMU Monster Game Helps Groups Work Across Differences

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created an innovative way to practice working together and achieving a common goal. In Monsters of Appalachia, players learn how to build better movement...

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The CTP is spearheading a new interdisciplinary concentration that’s furthering understanding of how game‑based tools can generate richer data and open new pathways for studying how people think and learn. Check out how @cmu.edu students are shaping the future of research! 👉 tinyurl.com/3b2j3s77

🚨LAST CHANCE🚨 to submit papers to Meaningful Play 2026! The deadline to submit papers to this October’s Meaningful Play conference in Pittsburgh is Wednesday, April 22. Visit the conference website for full details, other deadlines, and to submit your work! 👉 tinyurl.com/34a53njn

📅🚨 One week to go for paper submissions! The deadline to submit papers to this October’s Meaningful Play conference is April 22. Other key submission dates: *Games, Lightning Talks, Posters: May 15 *Hosted Sessions: June 15 Visit the conference website to submit your work! 👉 tinyurl.com/34a53njn

Inspired by NASA’s Artemis missions? Check out SpaceCHI - The world’s first conference dedicated to advancing human-computer interaction in space! 🚀🧑‍🚀

SpaceCHI | Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration

SpaceCHI - the first conference dedicated to advancing human-computer interaction in space exploration

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What could be more joyful than humanity’s return to the moon? We celebrate as Artemis II launches the first crewed mission to the moon in 50 years. Travel with Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen as they make history as the first people to orbit the moon since Apollo 17. 🚀🌕

NASA's Artemis II Launch Mission Countdown Begins - NASA

The countdown for NASA’s Artemis II test flight is underway at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with members of the launch

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✍️Survey Participants Needed!✍️ Are you a mobile or game developer working with AI? Researchers want to understand the real-world experiences, challenges, and insights of developers using AI tools. Take this short survey and help shape the future of AI in app development! 👉 tinyurl.com/bdr5hckz

Researchers are looking for participants to join a playtest for Broke, a board game exploring the realities of systemic poverty. Playtesters are needed from 2pm - 4pm on Sat. April 4 in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. For more information, fill out the interest form 👉 tinyurl.com/3d55ap64

📢 The deadline to submit papers to this October’s Meaningful Play conference has been EXTENDED to April 22! 📢 Other key submission dates: *Games, Lightning Talks, Posters: May 15 *Hosted Sessions: June 15 Visit the conference website for full details and to submit your work! 👉 tinyurl.com/34a53njn

🚨Meaningful Play 2026 submissions are OPEN! 🚨 Meaningful Play is accepting work for this October’s conference. Key submission dates include: *Full Papers: March 31 *Games, Lightning Talks, Posters: May 15 *Hosted Sessions: June 15 Visit the conference website for details and to submit your work!

Meaningful Play 2026

Join Meaningful Play 2026, October 13-15, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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🚨Attention Game Industry professionals! Submissions open soon for REGENERATE Game Jam 2026. Hosted by the IGDA Climate SIG, this year’s jam is dedicated to making games that imagine sustainable futures. The submission window is March 19-22. Learn more 👉 itch.io/jam/regenera...

REGENERATE Game Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-03-19 to 2026-03-24 hosted by REGENERATE Game Jam & IGDA Climate SIG. The IGDA Climate SIG presents: REGENERATE Game Jam 2026 REGENERATE Game Jam is back, this time with a focus o...

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As Black History Month wraps up its 100th Anniversary, we’d like to celebrate a particularly playful inventor: Lonnie Johnson. NASA engineer, clean energy researcher, AND inventor of one of the best selling toys in history ... the Super Soaker water gun! Learn More 👉 tinyurl.com/yd5u6ttp