Mike Tuberosa

Drexel University and the Atwater Kent Collection will be featured throughout the city as the nation celebrates its 250th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, Drexel and its partners at several of the city’s cultural institutions are hosting exhibits about Philadelphia’s history that showcase artifacts from the Collection. All of the Drexel-curated exhibits are free and open to the public.

Students from across the country will get a chance to design their own version of the skyscraper-size video games that have become the calling card of Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio and Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Professor Frank Lee, PhD. Through a collaboration with professor Erin Truesdell at New Jersey Institute of Technology— dubbed “Skyscraper Games” — the studio will engage K-12 students in learning computing concepts through digital game developments and creative expression as they design games on a virtual model of Brandywine Realty Trust’s 29-story Cira Centre office building in Philadelphia.