Plan Team Game

I think our team game is a good learning game because it helps teach kids about saving animals and it's also fun. Unlike some games they just have a learning goal and there's no fun part to it.Our game has animals and your interacting with them and becoming familiar with their habitat and the things that they need to survive or things that puts them in danger.

Imagine Team Game

WHO : Our game is for kids that are 8 and up and want to learn about helping dogs or other animals in danger of abuse or extinction.One way we will make sure our game is not hurtful to anybody is by making the game kid friendly and simple but also challenging.

WHAT : Our game will teach the player how to take care of animals so that we can prevent them from becoming extinct.

WHERE : Our game is going to happen in the wild or where ever the animal lives to show people where the animal lives and what's in their souroundings.

HOW :  Our game enviorment helps teach about our animal because it's going to show what the animal is use to and what it needs to survive.Also it will show how the animal's sourounding is.So that if a person plays a game and see's where they live if they ever pass by a enviorment that looks like their's the could be alert and know not to mess with it.

Team Game Topic

Our game topic is going to be about helping dogs that are being mistreated or are neglected.We chose this topic because we were interested in animal abuse and then we found some websites that help certain animals and some that focus on one animal.It took a while to think of what animal we wanted to work on so we just narrowed it down.It would be hard to do a game on more than one animal so we decided to  only work on one animal,dogs.We worked together by coming up with a animal we all like and is commonly mistreated.

Austin Non-Profit Organizations

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       Adoption Collation of Texas (Child & Youth Services)

          Adoption Collation of Texas

• A non-profit organization that helps finds families for neglected or "forgotten" kids.
• Their mission is to act collaboratively to create adoption opportunities for foster children in Central Texas.
• Some goals of the Adoption Collation of Texas are , increase the number of foster care adoptions , educate the community of the foster care system , overcome the stereotypes of children in foster care ,expand and integrate training opportunities , and reduce the number of transitions children experience in the foster care system .  

       
      American Gateways (Legal Services)

          American Gateways

• A non-profit organization that provides the legal and educational services immigrants need to navigate our immigration system.
• Founded  in 1987 ; Today American gateways is among the most effective & efficient non-profit providers of immigration legal services in the nation 
• Embracing the idea that all people have the right to equal justice. 

     
      Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation (Animal Welfare) 

          Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation

• Founded in 1977 in San Antonio , Texas 
• Goal : "To rescue , rehabilitate , and release native wildlife and to provide sanctuary individualized care , and a voice for other animals in need ."     
• received  over 125,000 wild animals.
• Founder Lynn Cuny saw animals that came in from bad living conditions to being mistreated such as :  human encounters , abuse , medical experiments , exotic pet trades , or roadside zoos.
• The first two WRR rescuers were bobcat kitten and a bobcat , one of which was declawed in a pet store inside and aquarium until a stranger came by and witnessed the bobcat covered in blood and paws wrapped in paper. They decided to call WRR and Lynn decided to take her in to her house. The second bobcat was going to be killed until the San Antonio animal control called and again Lynn took him into her home. 

      Caritas of Austin
         Caritas of Austin

• Non-profit organization that serves 20,00 people who are homeless or are in poor working and documented refuges.
• Provides a service that begins with a safety net and links them to resources to achieve self - sufficiency.
• Committed to maximizing the impact of our gift so they can make a better impact on their clients.

     Latinitas 
     Las Latinitas

• Non-profit organization that empowers young latinas through media and technology .
• Latinas are most likely to go through things that could get in the way of achieving success like  depression  , pregnancy , substance abuse , and become high school drop outs.
• A solution for this is to empower them by strengthen their confidence and expanding their opportunities for life.This is exactly what Latinitas does.
• Young latinas have a higher drop out , attempted suicide , and pregnancy rate than any other minority.