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HSC Conference 2019

HSC Conference 2019

5:30pm PDT

Teen Meet and Greet Game

Feel awkward because you don't know anyone yet? Can't remember that person's name? Join us for a fun Meet & Greet Game! There are 3 Meet & Greet Games during the conference because we all know how easy it is to forget that interesting person's name even when we wish we had remembered it!

Speakers

Rebecca Gonzales Lawler

Thursday August 8, 2019 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Silicon Valley

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Teens

9:00am PDT

Game Deck

Come check out the expanded Game Deck. The game deck has always been a nice spot to get away and relax, but now it is even better. Come play our new cooperative games, or slaughter your friend at chess; participate in a Magic Tournament, or line up dominos and make them fall down; or just enjoy a quiet game. Regardless of what is scheduled, you can still put your feet up and play any game of your choice. Or make up your own game—rules are made to be broken.

Speakers

Michelle McNeill

Mom to an always unschooled 14 year old, game designer, urban homesteader, beekeeper, and all around nerd.

Andrea Schrimp

Andrea is an always unschooling mom to three wild, awesome kids. She is also a professional computer geek. In the highly unusual event that she has free time, she likes to drink fancy chai, take naps, read post-apocalyptic fiction, and bake, not necessarily in that order.

Friday August 9, 2019 9:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Santa Clara

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Adults, Children, Grandparents, Teens, Tweens, Young Adults

9:30am PDT

Harry Potter Trivia & Games

Harry Potter fans unite and have fun! We'll have a trivia contest, play a Who Am I guessing game and more.

Speakers

Luke Kee

Luke has been unschooling for nine years, leaving school after second grade. He's passionate about Star Wars, engineering, cars and learning what he wants. He's now studying auto mechanics at community college.

Friday August 9, 2019 9:30am - 10:45am PDT
Fir

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Adults, Children, Grandparents, Kids, Teens, Tweens, Young Adults

2:00pm PDT

Teen Meet and Greet Game

Feel awkward because you don't know anyone yet? Can't remember that person's name? Join us for a fun Meet & Greet Game! There are 3 Meet & Greet Games during the conference because we all know how easy it is to forget that interesting person's name even when we wish we had remembered it!

Speakers

Rebecca Gonzales Lawler

Friday August 9, 2019 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Silicon Valley

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Teens

3:30pm PDT

D&D Character Creation Workshop

We will go through the basics of creating your own Dungeons and Dragons character. We will go over race, class, how to roll stats, and even discuss the complicated looking skill box on the character sheet. Every one who attends will get help creating their own D&D character that they can use to play in any future D&D campaign (including the Dungeon Crawl that Lexy is also running at the con, if they want).

Attendees need to be independent readers and able to do simple math.

Limit 10 attendees for one on one help, but others are welcome to hang out and watch.

Speakers

Lexy Gregoryck

Friday August 9, 2019 3:30pm - 4:45pm PDT
Santa Clara

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Tweens, Teens, Young Adults

7:30pm PDT

Gamers' Lounge

Join us for free range gaming in a communal space. Bring your laptops/ iPads and games -- all ages welcome. You're welcome to bring game platforms like PS3 or Xbox (we'll have a projector available). Parents of young children must stay. All games welcome, including but not limited to Minecraft, WOW, LOL, Team Fortress 2, etc. Join us for a digital, awesome, gamingly good time!

Speakers

Carl Eliot Nelson

Carl Nelson is an aspiring lighting designer and lover of the theatrical arts who wants to spread the knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes of the shows we all know and love

Friday August 9, 2019 7:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
Monterey

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Tweens, Teens, Children, Young Adults, Adults, Grandparents

8:00pm PDT

Not Your Ordinary Bingo!

Yes, it's not your ordinary Bingo! Come see what it's all about!

Speakers

Rebecca Gonzales Lawler

Friday August 9, 2019 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Silicon Valley

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Teens

9:00am PDT

Pokemon Trading Card Game Meetup

A Meetup for all things Pokemon TCG! Card trading and game play, we have some loaner decks if you are new.

Speakers

Andrea Schrimp

Andrea is an always unschooling mom to three wild, awesome kids. She is also a professional computer geek. In the highly unusual event that she has free time, she likes to drink fancy chai, take naps, read post-apocalyptic fiction, and bake, not necessarily in that order.

Michelle McNeill

Mom to an always unschooled 14 year old, game designer, urban homesteader, beekeeper, and all around nerd.

Saturday August 10, 2019 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Santa Clara

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Adults, Children, Grandparents, Teens, Tweens, Young Adults

9:00am PDT

Game Deck

Come check out the expanded Game Deck. The game deck has always been a nice spot to get away and relax, but now it is even better. Come play our new cooperative games, or slaughter your friend at chess; participate in a Magic Tournament, or line up dominos and make them fall down; or just enjoy a quiet game. Regardless of what is scheduled, you can still put your feet up and play any game of your choice. Or make up your own game—rules are made to be broken.

Speakers

Michelle McNeill

Mom to an always unschooled 14 year old, game designer, urban homesteader, beekeeper, and all around nerd.

Andrea Schrimp

Andrea is an always unschooling mom to three wild, awesome kids. She is also a professional computer geek. In the highly unusual event that she has free time, she likes to drink fancy chai, take naps, read post-apocalyptic fiction, and bake, not necessarily in that order.

Saturday August 10, 2019 9:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Santa Clara

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Adults, Children, Grandparents, Teens, Tweens, Young Adults

12:00pm PDT

Teen Meet and Greet Game

Feel awkward because you don't know anyone yet? Can't remember that person's name? Join us for a fun Meet & Greet Game! There are 3 Meet & Greet Games during the conference because we all know how easy it is to forget that interesting person's name even when we wish we had remembered it!

Speakers

Rebecca Gonzales Lawler

Saturday August 10, 2019 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Silicon Valley

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Teens

12:45pm PDT

The Dating Game

Come experience our take on the classic ABC television series, maybe you'll meet that special someone ;)

Speakers

TCC

TCC is the Teen Conference Committee. We are responsible for planning the Teen Events throughout Conference. Check out our Instagram to learn more @2022teenconference. If you’re interested in joining TCC or volunteering for TCC, please email us at tcc@hsc.org or talk to a TCC member... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2019 12:45pm - 2:45pm PDT
Cedar

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Teens

3:30pm PDT

Creating Game-Based and Gamified Home School Environments

Kids show high engagement and resilience in games. In fact, research shows students can read grade levels above what they normally measure when reading text in a game. Learn the core ingredients that make game-based learning and gamification elements work. These elements are especially useful in home school environments where students are more self-reliant. Game design is a powerful tool for increasing self-motivation. Leave the workshop able to create and evaluate how game dynamics and existing free tools can work with your own family learning setting. Explore the role of a playful narrative, like recasting learning itself as a hero's journey, narrative being the most useful game dynamic in creating magical homeschool experiences.

Speakers

Christopher Chiang

Saturday August 10, 2019 3:30pm - 4:45pm PDT
San Martin

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Adults, Young Adults

3:30pm PDT

The Kobold's Courage - D&D Dungeon Crawl

The party has been tasked by a small group of kobolds to retrieve their friend, who has been captured by something mysterious and unknown and imprisoned in a dungeon full of monsters...and maybe worse. The party will have to enter the dungeon and get the kobold's friend out alive.

Participants need to be able to read independently and do simple math.

Up to 10 participants in this workshop. Others are welcome to hang out and watch.

You are encouraged to bring characters from the D&D Character Creation Workshop that Lexy is also running, if you attend, but we will also have pre-generated characters for anyone who needs one.

Speakers

Lexy Gregoryck

Saturday August 10, 2019 3:30pm - 4:45pm PDT
Riesling

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Tweens, Teens, Young Adults

5:00pm PDT

Making Your First 2D Video Game in Unity!

Hello! Would you like to learn how to make video games, but don't know a thing about coding? Or do you know some coding, but would like to use it to make some actual video games, in one of the most popular game engines, Unity? Well then you're welcome to come make your first 2D video game in Unity!

We are going to be making a simple, 2D platformer game that will teach you the basics of script writing, object-oriented programming, and more! Even if you feel intimidated by programming, don't worry! I did too! I will make sure to explain everything in an easy to understand way, and you'll be making games in no time.

WHAT TO BRING: Before coming to this workshop, be sure to closely follow the instructions in this video to correctly download and install Unity Hub and the latest version of Unity, on to a laptop:
http://bit.ly/HowToInstallUnity. Then bring that laptop along with you to the workshop.

See you there! :-)

Speakers

Elliot Clark

Elliot Clark is 15 and has been unschooled and attending the HSC conference his whole life.He started making drag-and-drop video games on Sploder at around age 9 and has had an interest in making video games ever since. After Sploder, he started using the game engine GameMaker's drag-and-drop... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2019 5:00pm - 6:15pm PDT
Carmel

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Teens, Tweens

7:30pm PDT

Gamers' Lounge

Join us for free range gaming in a communal space. Bring your laptops/ iPads and games -- all ages welcome. You're welcome to bring game platforms like PS3 or Xbox (we'll have a projector available). Parents of young children must stay. All games welcome, including but not limited to Minecraft, WOW, LOL, Team Fortress 2, etc. Join us for a digital, awesome, gamingly good time!

Speakers

Carl Eliot Nelson

Carl Nelson is an aspiring lighting designer and lover of the theatrical arts who wants to spread the knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes of the shows we all know and love

Saturday August 10, 2019 7:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
Monterey

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Tweens, Teens, Children, Young Adults, Adults, Grandparents

8:00pm PDT

Bingo for Prizes

Come play the game you know & love for prizes!

Speakers

Rebecca Gonzales Lawler

Saturday August 10, 2019 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Silicon Valley

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Teens

9:00am PDT

Game Deck

Come check out the expanded Game Deck. The game deck has always been a nice spot to get away and relax, but now it is even better. Come play our new cooperative games, or slaughter your friend at chess; participate in a Magic Tournament, or line up dominos and make them fall down; or just enjoy a quiet game. Regardless of what is scheduled, you can still put your feet up and play any game of your choice. Or make up your own game—rules are made to be broken.

Speakers

Andrea Schrimp

Andrea is an always unschooling mom to three wild, awesome kids. She is also a professional computer geek. In the highly unusual event that she has free time, she likes to drink fancy chai, take naps, read post-apocalyptic fiction, and bake, not necessarily in that order.

Michelle McNeill

Mom to an always unschooled 14 year old, game designer, urban homesteader, beekeeper, and all around nerd.

Sunday August 11, 2019 9:00am - 3:30pm PDT
Santa Clara

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Adults, Children, Grandparents, Teens, Tweens, Young Adults

11:00am PDT

Uno Tournament

Come prove your prowess in this classic card game tournament.

Speakers

TCC

TCC is the Teen Conference Committee. We are responsible for planning the Teen Events throughout Conference. Check out our Instagram to learn more @2022teenconference. If you’re interested in joining TCC or volunteering for TCC, please email us at tcc@hsc.org or talk to a TCC member... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2019 11:00am - 12:15pm PDT
Silicon Valley

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Kids, Tweens, Teens, Young Adults, Adults, Grandparents

12:30pm PDT

Smash Tournament

Come fight for and against your friends! See who is truly best at this classic party game. We will be playing Smash Ultimate, Melee is not the best fight me.

Speakers

TCC

TCC is the Teen Conference Committee. We are responsible for planning the Teen Events throughout Conference. Check out our Instagram to learn more @2022teenconference. If you’re interested in joining TCC or volunteering for TCC, please email us at tcc@hsc.org or talk to a TCC member... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2019 12:30pm - 1:45pm PDT
Monterey

Games & Gameschooling

Suggested Age Range Children, Tweens, Teens, Young Adults