Helias Catholic alumna Eliza Pierce ’22 presented a paper at the Joint Conference on serious games at New York University in November.

Eliza, a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, contributed to the paper titled “Examining Student Responses to Game Layers in Cultural Geography: A Study About Game Spatiality in a Role-Playing Game Design.” Under the MU School of Information and Learning Technologies, College of Education and Human Development, the study examined the impact of the game space in Stories of a Geo-Farmer, a digital game prototype designed to enhance cultural geography in higher education.