With Acton’s 3rd annual Children’s Business Fair just around the corner, our entrepreneurial business school hosted a Children’s Business Fair Boot Camp at the Acton campus yesterday. The event was a huge success! More than 40 young entrepreneurs, aged 6 to 13, spent the afternoon playing Acton’s award-winning simulation games and brainstorming with successful Austin [...]
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In a recent interview with Jon Aleckson of Web Courseworks, Clark Aldrich further discusses Acton and its growing list of simulation games developed to teach the key tools and skills every entrepreneur needs to create a successful business. Listen to the interview and watch Clark take you through “Robo Rush: Can You Make a Profit [...]
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The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading interactive media awards competition, recently announced its 2009 award winners. Both sim games that the Acton Foundation entered, Robo-Rush! and Galactic Zappers, won bronze awards in the “best video game” category.
“The fact that our learning games are wining awards in video game and entertainment categories is extremely encouraging. It [...]
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In a recent interview, Clark Aldrich, one of the country’s leading experts on eLearning and simulation games, had the following to say about Acton and our recently developed, award-winning Sim Games for Entrepreneurs:
First, to understand Acton, you have to realize that they are one of the hottest business schools for Entrepreneurship. This is in part [...]
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The pricing simulation game that Acton built in late 2008 has been recognized with a recent award. The 15th Annual Communicator Awards recognized Price Point in their Interactive Gaming category.
The Communicator Awards honors creative excellence for communications professionals. We received the Award of Distinction, which we are quite happy to receive.
For more on the awards, [...]
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This is the mission of the Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence (AFEE), a partner organization to the Acton School of Business. Nothing like aiming high!
One of its many projects is to develop online simulations that are fun and teach business skills to the budding entrepreneur (or serve as a refresher to a master entrepreneur). Visit [...]
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