18 min
Who We Are Beyond the Game: cultivating student growth and community through high school Esports
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This episode introduces listeners to the podcast, the goals for the podcast, and invites you to tag along the journey.
Beyond the Game Podcast describes the trials and tribulations of starting and running a high school Esports program from a coach/advisor’s point of view.
Follow our journey introducing Esports to our school community and its expansion to a full-year initiative focused on helping students grow and mentor.
Scott Hertzog and Nick Joniec introduced high school Esports to Penn Manor High School in August 2019.
Penn Manor Esports strives to be an inclusive program that engages populations previous disconnected from their school community. We believe in helping students develop valuable STEM skills-including communication, creativity, and leadership-to prepare them for college and life after school.
Scott is an English teacher at Penn Manor High School and currently teaches composition, world literature, American literature, and online creative writing and science fiction literature. He is the Esports Ambassador for Penn Manor Esports and leads the student mentorship for shoutcasting and social media. Scott has had an interest in PC gaming his entire life. In the early 2000’s, he gamed more seriously in the MMO genre, specifically World of Warcraft. Now his go to game is League of Legends.
Nick is the system administrator for Penn Manor School District, responsible for building and maintaining district network infrastructure and services. Within Penn Manor Esports, Nick is the Esports Coordinator. He manages scheduling and communication with other teams, technical operations, and student mentoring for graphics and media production. In middle school, Nick switched from console to PC gaming as his interest in computers grew. He prefers team-based first person shooter games and competitive racing sims.
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This episode introduces listeners to the podcast, the goals for the podcast, and invites you to tag along the journey.
Beyond the Game Podcast describes the trials and tribulations of starting and running a high school Esports program from a coach/advisor’s point of view.
Follow our journey introducing Esports to our school community and its expansion to a full-year initiative focused on helping students grow and mentor.
Scott Hertzog and Nick Joniec introduced high school Esports to Penn Manor High School in August 2019.
Penn Manor Esports strives to be an inclusive program that engages populations previous disconnected from their school community. We believe in helping students develop valuable STEM skills-including communication, creativity, and leadership-to prepare them for college and life after school.
Scott is an English teacher at Penn Manor High School and currently teaches composition, world literature, American literature, and online creative writing and science fiction literature. He is the Esports Ambassador for Penn Manor Esports and leads the student mentorship for shoutcasting and social media. Scott has had an interest in PC gaming his entire life. In the early 2000’s, he gamed more seriously in the MMO genre, specifically World of Warcraft. Now his go to game is League of Legends.
Nick is the system administrator for Penn Manor School District, responsible for building and maintaining district network infrastructure and services. Within Penn Manor Esports, Nick is the Esports Coordinator. He manages scheduling and communication with other teams, technical operations, and student mentoring for graphics and media production. In middle school, Nick switched from console to PC gaming as his interest in computers grew. He prefers team-based first person shooter games and competitive racing sims.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondthegamepodcast/message
18 min