PolitiCraft, Inc Information

The mission of PolitiCraft, Inc is to transform traditional civics learning by developing students’ social-emotional skills, literacy skills, systems thinking tools, and design learning mindsets, while fostering improved communication, civil discourse and real-world civic engagement both locally and nationally. Our primary focus today towards achieving this mission is PolitiCraft, a narrative-based ACTION CIVICS card game that guides students through varying levels of civic engagement. Through game play, students are guided by the cards to craft narratives based upon a student selected civic issue, informing them of the multiple pathways available to achieve real change in their school and community, while fostering greater civic participation nationwide. Our aim is to not only empower students with the knowledge of our political system and how it works, but to also give them a safe space to practice what it would mean to engage in bringing about a change in their community. Providing students with the opportunity to explore real-life civic scenarios is critical and empowers them with an improved sense of political efficacy. The variety of interactions presented by the PolitiCraft card deck cultivate diverse student perspectives, while enhancing socio-emotional, systems thinking, and collaboration skills. PolitiCraft helps students to both understand challenges in today’s society and play through our current system to solve them. While the game is a simulation of the democratic process, our larger goal is to provide an online platform where students can discuss the issues they worked through in the game and develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions of effective civic engagement.