The National Academy of Public Administration and PETLab
www.napawash.org and cdt.parsons.edu
With a $325,000 inaugural grant from the Foundation, the National Academy of Public Administration and PETLab, a joint initiative of Parsons The New School for Design and the nonprofit Games for Change, will develop a "Big Fiscal Game" to be played on the physical space of college campuses around the country. The game, designed to be played by 30 to 500 students at a time, will educate them about the extent and causes of the country's looming fiscal crisis, and will model the policy and budget trade-offs involved.
Three to five universities and coalitions of universities - including American University and the University of Miami - are expected to host the game in 2009 for an estimated 1,500 student participants. The event will lead students from awareness of the critical policy issues to an understanding of their complexities. The long-term goal of the project is to measurably increase young people's knowledge about the nation's fiscal problems, their causes, possible solutions and required trade-offs. Ultimately, the team plans to make the game available in a format that allows students to organize their own games on campus.
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