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Centers
Quest
Atlantis Centers are designed to support the creation of a collaborative
community. Each partnering center has available computers and
volunteers to work with kids as they complete Quest Atlantis
challenges. While housed in different locations (elementary
schools, the Boys and Girls Clubs, the Childrens Museum, Educational
Resource Centers at neighborhood malls), the central environment
of each center is the computer laboratory.
The computer laboratory provides the physical and social space
in
which the kids and volunteers come together to work on Quest
Atlantis. Each center laboratory, while having its own unique
look, will have a set of common structures that provide the
foundation for the overall experience. When children join a
particular land they become citizens of the Center through which
they are registered, as well as the Quest Atlantis networked-community
more generally.
While Quest Atlantis users must come to centers to register
to
participate and to record completed challenges (for security
reasons), the power of the local centers is the face-to-face
community and the available mentors. It is here that students
will work with other peers and with mentors (pre-service teachers,
local staff, and community volunteers). While initially the
pre-service teachers and other community volunteers will serve
as Quest Atlantis Assistants, children who work their way through
all the lands and reach Atlantis will also have the option of
becoming an assistant and helping other children through the
challenges.
Current
Centers
Currently there are QA centers spread across the globe in Australia, China, Singapore, the U.S, and beyond.
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