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iCivics, Inc. (formerly Our Courts) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the United States that provides educational online games and lesson plans to promote civics education and encourage students to become active citizens.
[6] He later served on the advisory board of iCivics, an education non-profit founded by O'Connor. [5] After his clerkships, Cerf worked as a lawyer in two law firms in Washington, D.C., [6] a period in which he returned to the Supreme Court to argue two cases, one of which he won. One of two Washington firms Cerf worked for was Onek, Klein & Farr.
The company received national recognition for their series of civics games launched by Sandra Day O'Connor for iCivics, her civics-education initiative. [3] These games include Do I Have a Right?, Executive Command, and Liberty Belle's Immigration Nation.
Early examples of games for change include Honorable Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's suite of games called iCivics; Food Force a game about global hunger created by the World Food Program; and Ayiti: the Cost of Life , a game about poverty set in Haiti. Seggerman ran G4C since its inception in 2004. [8]
In her later years, O’Connor advocated for further research into Alzheimer’s disease, and founded iCivics, a nonprofit organization that encouraged a broader study of civics in U.S. classrooms.
The initiative expanded, becoming iCivics in May 2010 offering free lesson plans, games, and interactive videogames for middle and high school educators. [141] By 2015, the iCivics games had 72,000 teachers as registered users and its games had been played 30 million times. [142]
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McElveen-Hunter has also served on the boards for iCivics, The Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art, the Washington National Opera, Blair House, Macedonian Ministry, Inc., National Portrait Gallery, Max Planck Florida Institute, and on the executive committee of The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.