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Virtual Adventures with

Treasures you can hold

Fun for Ages 6 to 100

More than a Game

Join the Adventure

Development Through Play

Science tells us that we learn and perform at our highest levels when we are relaxed and engaged, and this is most easily achieved in a play format. The nature of social play changes with development, but it does not disappear, and social play remains important to our well-being throughout our life span.

Praxis Games: A Design Philosophy for Mobilizing Knowledge through Play, Wilcox (2018), Journal of Play

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Social Development

Social Development

Our team encourages social awareness and collaboration, empathy, cooperation, and pro-social behavior to keep adventurers positive and productive.

Social Skills and Empathy, Riggio, Tucker & Coffaro, (1988), Personality and Individual Differences

Imagination and Play

Imagination and Play

We provide real-time social interactions, a best practice remedy for social isolation and the stress of loneliness. We learn best when we're engaged, relaxed, and enjoying ourselves with peers.

Rutishauser, Ross, Mamelak & Schuman, (2010), Nature

Learning Support

Learning Support

SummerQuest augments learning efforts by schools and therapists by weaving academic challenges and therapeutic strategies into the narrative. Virtual money management, journaling, reading and writing are just a part of the experience.

Smith & Pellegrini, (2008), Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development

Mental & Behavioral Health

Mental & Behavioral Health

SummerQuest integrates best-practices in education and psychology so that real feelings, thoughts and worries can be expressed, explored and managed in a shared fantasy world which supports prosocial behavior and behavioral health. SummerQuest offers an excellent adjunct to academic education and behavioral therapies.

Yogman, Garner, Hutchinson, Hirsh-Pasek, Golinkoff, (2018), Pediatrics

Personal Development

Personal Development

The SummerQuest team is constantly looking to encourage the development of personal skills and self-control. In particular, we work on supporting the development of self-regulation and executive functioning skills such as decision-making, problem solving, impulse control, and planning.

Tominey, Shauna & Mcclelland, Megan. (2011). Early Education and Development

Collaboration

For the adventurers of SummerQuest, the experience is about having an enjoyable personal and social experience.

For the SummerQuest team it is also about promoting personal, social and cognitive growth for each participant in areas such as frustration tolerance, self-regulation, impulse control, planning, problem solving, social reciprocation and social collaboration.

Hoffmann, J., & Russ, S. (2012). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts