Education – Project Whitecard

Vaccine Quest

Chris — Tue, 09 May 2023 18:32:01 +0000

Vaccine Quest is a 2D adventure game that follows a young person from the reservation who embarks on a journey to find a vaccine to protect their community from the Covid-19 pandemic. The game is set in a big map that includes Manitoba Boreal Forest, Lake Forest, and towns, along with areas inside the human body and a lab. The player has a dream or vision showing them how their reserve is getting sick with covid, and decides to go on a quest for vaccine to protect the reserve. The player will travel through the 2D landscape and meet various NPCs, including the Bear, the Turtle, the Doctor, and the Elder, who will guide them in their journey.

Click here to play Vaccine Quest.

Street Sense

Chris — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:23:06 +0000

Driver training is an important part of getting new drivers or those new to B.C. on the road. Street Sense is a joint collaboration between ICBC, the Province of British Columbia, TELUS and Project Whitecard. It is funded through the Province’s Strategic Investment Fund. The Street Sense software (Apple, Android, VR, PC) is designed to help new drivers become familiar with their surroundings and identify potential dangers. The program also helps to teach hazard-perception techniques that can be used to avoid accidents. By increasing awareness and understanding of how to safely share the road, driver training can help make our roads safer for everyone.

For more information, visit the official ICBC website.
https://www.icbc.com/streetsense

DRIVR-X VR SAFE DRIVING PROGRAM

Khal Shariff — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:55:00 +0000

Launched in Manitoba and Saskatchewan!
DRIVR-X: is a full-body virtual reality experience that has efficacy for young people in the transfer of skills in avoiding distracted, impaired and speeding situations on the road. Using entirely new approach to virtual reality, the user moves from standing in a social situation to sitting in a mock-up of a jeep which one can actually drive. Not only is this type of driving a first in VR, the complexity of the characters who meet your gaze and interact is also a VR first.
Project Whitecard is very pleased and honoured to undertake such a project with Manitoba Public Insurance.
DRIVR-X is touring schools in Manitoba for at least the next two years!

Northern Lights Project

Khal Shariff — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 19:57:29 +0000

The Northern Lights Project is a project completed at the Banff New Media Institute. It is available for viewing in the lower gallery as a 3D immersive CAVE environment. The Northern Lights Project features archetypical animals such as The Wolf or The Rabbit leading people on their quest through the spiritual landscape where animated characters and animal spirits roam the air, land and sea. The program is designed to appeal to a younger audience through the use of gaming technology and to fill a void in their cultural landscape.

Urbanites across Canada may soon have the opportunity to travel to historical aboriginal communities and experience the past without ever leaving the city. Winnipeg programmer, Khal Shariff, CEO of Project Whitecard, along with Rawl Banton and Jason Baerg, have created a virtual reality program called The Northern Lights Project in co-production with the Liminal Screen Program at the Banff New Media Institute.

The Project allows the public to explore and experience Canada’s aboriginal stories and their cultural connection to the Northern Lights all in local museums and classrooms. “This is an innovative way for kids to learn about Canadian culture using tools they are familiar with and enjoy using – video games,” said Khal Shariff.

The aboriginal community has also put its support behind the program. “The Northern Lights Project is good for our schools when we’re trying to teach culture.

There aren’t many companies that can produce this quality of animation about native culture,” said Leonard Standing on the Road of the Montana Tribal Administration in Hobbema, Alberta.

Khal Shariff demonstrated the program as a Featured Artist at the Banff Summer Arts Festival and it is in the CAVE environment at the Jeanne and Peter Loughheed Building, Banff, Alberta Canada.

NASA Curiosity Rover/ Mozilla Open Badges

Khal Shariff — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:47:34 +0000

Project Whitecard created a series of tools and apps in conjunction with NASA that allow users to award and track and inspect Mozilla Open Badges of a science ilk. We won a competition and grants through University of California Irvine from MacArthur Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Our Development Activity is complete except for new games like Star Rangers- meaning our open-source modules and test activities are officially released to the public.

Canadian Space Agency

Khal Shariff — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:17:44 +0000

The Canadian Space Agency and Project Whitecard Inc. won two prestigious Gold Medals in the International Serious Play Awards! Reaching approximately over 2 million elementary students overall, “Planting the Seed” simulates the experience of working on the International Space Station with the guidance of a virtual astronaut, Chris Hadfield, in his own voice! Students learn about the role of plants in biological life support systems by creating a virtual living wall inside the ISS.In the “Robomath” series, another 1 million students learned from astronaut Julie Payette about basic to advanced math and geometry while installing the Kibo module on the space station.

Project Moonwalk

Chris — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:44:49 +0000

Project Moonwalk is an exciting video game that allows you to train as an astronaut and walk in the footsteps of the 1969 Apollo 11 Mission!

Featuring these exciting levels:

Soviet Sputnik Launch
Kennedy’s Speech at Rice
Rocket Fueling and Test Launches
Practice Lunar Module Vehicle
Saturn V Launch!
Lunar Landing
Flag Planting
Laser Reflection Experiment
Solar Wind
Seismic Experiment
Rock Collection
Realistic, Accurate Landscapes
Return to Earth!
Zoom Camera Picture Taking for Facebook!

Order a Copy Directly from ProjectMoonwalk.com :

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PLEIADES

Chris — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:57:30 +0000

Platform for Leadership through the Enhanced Interactive Assessment and Development of Essential Skills A multiplayer environment with voice chat and in-game quizzed dialog reflecting your organization’s learning goals.

Mulitplayer or single player gameplay
Spoken voice interactive avatars
Multiplayer voice chat
Realistic environments
Online Score Tracking

We deployed Pleiades to Workplace Education Manitoba!