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Career profile: Phoebe Watson Indigenous game designer

This poster can be used to inspire students to consider game design as a career opportunity. Phoebe Watson, an Indigenous game designer, shares her day-to-day role, her personal interests and the pathway she has taken to be a game designer.

Refer to these two lessons, Designing a mini-game or Designing a mini-game with variables to help students develop their skills and knowledge in programming using a game design context.

Additional details

Year band(s)	3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10
Content type	Careers
Format	Document
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)	AC9TDI4P04 Implement simple algorithms as visual programs involving control structures and input AC9TDI6P05 Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input AC9TDI8P09 Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language AC9TDI10P09 Implement, modify and debug modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures, including in an object-oriented programming language
Keywords	STEM Careers, gamification, role model, Indigenous, coding
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs	Girls in Tech, STEM
Organisation	ESA
Copyright	Creative Commons BY 4.0