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= Educational Video Games, 3-D Printing and Other Exciting Developments =

**Dr. Nathan Patterson, Morgridge Institute for Research**
// The Education Research Challenge Area (ERCA) at the Morgridge Institute for Research, a non-profit biomedical research institute, is focusing on creating educational games around the research performed at Morgridge, the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, and the UW-Madison. Dr. Nathan Patterson is a post-doctoral researcher and the lead designer with ERCA. He will be presenting information about the games under development at Morgridge, his work with a 3-D printing and rapid prototyping group at Morgridge, and the education outreach experiences available at the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building. Some participants will have the opportunity to try some of the new game prototypes on iPads. //


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To download a copy of the presentation, go to [] Here you can have links to the three games that Morgridge is developing. Direct links: Oncology - A game that was designed to teach anatomy through cancer detection and treatment. Developed with a Madison, WI based educational game development company, Filament Games. http://erca.chtc.wisc.edu/Oncology/game.html

Virulent Demo - The first in-house development project for the Education Research group at Morgridge. It is designed to teach the basics of viral infection, replication, and the resulting immune response. The game is being redesigned and developed for the iPad and we hope to release it in the Apple AppStore as a free resource prior to the Games, Learning, and Society conference ( http://www.glsconference.org/2011/ ) in June. http://erca.chtc.wisc.edu/Virulent/Virulent_12_30_10.html

3-D Modeling and Printing Resources that are mostly community based tools and websites. These resources allow students to be as involved as they want to be, ranging from downloading and printing other people's designs to working with others to redesign the printers themselves. http://www.makerbot.com/ Open source hardware and software 3-D printing product http://www.reprap.org/ Open source hardware and software 3-D printing product http://www.thingiverse.com/ Community based 3-D model repository. Files are free to download and print http://www.blender.org/ Open source 3-D modeling software. http://www.3dtin.com/ Another good modeling tool that is free on the web.

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