{"id":2051,"date":"2019-03-25T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:49","slug":"84365-dr-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/84365-dr-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"84:365 | Dr. Esports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a hunch this will be the first of many &#8220;I knew him when &#8230;&#8221; stories! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brctv13.com\/news\/local-news\/23685-esu-recieves-grant-to-indroduce-esports-to-at-risk-youth?fbclid=IwAR3ObYAbiTCfLm_seEZN8Wr6BQL9Gcrl9vQ9Lmt3SgsT9hoYd63v8aU6QyI\">Check out the recent profile of an NSF-funded Esports project with Dr. Jason Engerman<\/a>, Assistant Professor at East Stroudsburg University (ESU). As presented in the profile:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Esports is competitive gaming, meaning students will play video games they already love, but this time to be able to learn from them. &#8220;We see Esports becoming this billion dollar industry very rapidly, we understand that there is a new emerging opportunity for job growth,&#8221; said Dr. Jason Engerman, Assistant Professor at ESU &#8230; The school is preparing to hold a camp and other events to give students the chance to participate in Esports games &#8230; they tell News 13 they would like to help at-risk youth.\u00a0&#8220;The at-risk youth which we define as homeless, out of home placement, out of school placement or out of community placement. These students are really the ones who get left behind,&#8221; added Dr. Engerman.<\/p>\n<p>Jason was a co-founder of Designers for Learning, and during his 3-year term on our board he helped us design and facilitate our early service-learning projects, including our first collaboration with the AECT Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) when he was GSA President. I remember meeting him like it was yesterday. He paused by my booth at the AECT Convention when Designers for Learning was just an &#8220;idea&#8221; for a service project I was trying to launch. After my 30-second elevator pitch, he told me something along the lines of, &#8220;I want in. Contact me. I&#8217;ve gotta run to my next session.&#8221; To my amazement, he MEANT IT and many web conferenced brainstorming sessions followed. I can&#8217;t tell you how it makes my heart swell to see him achieve much-deserved success as he follows his passion and finds his purpose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a hunch this will be the first of many &#8220;I knew him when &#8230;&#8221; stories! Check out the recent profile of an NSF-funded Esports project with Dr. Jason Engerman, Assistant Professor at East Stroudsburg University (ESU). As presented in the profile: Esports is competitive gaming, meaning students will play video games they already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}