Kid Entrepreneur Creates Board Game
Kiplinger:
in a world where we’re all expected to be entrepreneurs and reinvent ourselves to stay competitive in the workplace, it’s never too soon to encourage kids to develop and follow through on their own ideas. Perhaps the example of a project initiated two summers ago by Amanda Wilcox, now 10, and facilitated by her mother, Melynda (a former Kiplinger’s colleague), will provide the inspiration.
Amanda has a passion for pandas. So to mark the first birthday of Tai Shan, the panda cub at the National Zoo, Amanda had the idea to create a board game with a panda theme. Players make a circuit of the board (hand-drawn by Amanda), landing on black or white squares, drawing cards with facts about pandas and following directions to move forward or back.
She christened the game Pandarama, and guided by Mom, spent about 20 to 25 hours refining the drawing and poring over panda fact […]
Original post by Nicholas and software by Elliott Back