The Sci-Tech & Arts Game Club is an opportunity for us all to play, reflect, and learn about a different game each month. It’s a game club where you become a member just by tuning in! Every month, we’ll select a game for our community and game club hosts (and some special guests)to discuss and debate using our core values as a rubric.

We'll record the podcast LIVE on our Twitch channel. The discussion is then recorded and uploaded to our podcast channel and to YouTube!

More questions? Scroll to the bottom of this page for a full-list of FAQs.

The Sci-Tech & Arts Game Club is an opportunity for us all to reflect and learn about a different game each month. It’s a game club where you become a member just by tuning in! Every month, we’ll select a game for the club to focus on.

Each month, we'll have a live PODCAST RECORDING ON TWITCH where our game club hosts (and some special guests) will discuss that month’s game. The discussion is then recorded and uploaded to our podcast channel! The show is hosted by Senior Director Jayme Dale and Game Club Leaders Isaac and Troy! Each month, we'll see how that month’s game shapes up when seen through the lens of our Sci-Tech & Arts Values Game Rubric rubric! Join our Game Club hosts on Twitch as they debate all 6 points and add some points of your own in the chat!

We’ll aim to choose a wide variety of games, so we’re hoping to have something for everyone! Each game will have a different rating, so parents or guardians should check to ensure it’s appropriate for their child before purchasing! We'll always give a heads-up about the rating before we begin the public podcast recording on Twitch!

Everyone! The games and streams are open to everyone whether they’re campers, staff, camper or staff alum, or community members who have never been to camp before but love the idea of playing or thinking about games through a Jewish-values lens! You don’t even have to play the game to be a member! Sometimes the best part of gaming culture is just talking about games, even if you haven’t played them yourself yet. 

We believe community is the soul of games, and there’s no better group of people to talk games with than all of you! Games, whether they be tabletop, board, or video, are a huge way for our campers and staff to find kesher (connection) at camp. We want to bring the wisdom and insight our community has during the summer to our year-round lives, and a game club is the perfect way for us to practice #LivingOur6 when we’re not together at camp!

We'll be focusing on our core Sci-Tech & Arts values, of course! We will #LiveOur6 and analyze the game through a Sci-Tech & Arts lens. We’ll have six different criteria that we’ll rate the game on, one for each of our values. We’ll rate the game on a scale of 0 to 6 for each value, with 0 being the lowest and 6 being the highest. There are many different ways to use a value as a lens!

Nope! No registration is required. You can participate in game club activities as much or as little as you would like or have time for. 

You can find the full game club calendar on our game club page at www.6PointsSciTech-Arts.org/gameclub/. We’ll also post updates regularly on our Instagram and Facebook. If you follow us on Twitch, you’ll also get updates whenever we go live!  

You can also add the Sci-Tech & Arts Game Club schedule to your Google Calendar to make sure you don’t forget! Have an iPhone? Don’t use Google Calendar? You can use this iCal link instead!  

The three primary facilitators of the game club are Troy Mundschenk (Sci-Tech & Arts Game Design Instructor and Professional Game Developer), Isaac Berman (Sci-Tech & Arts Staff Alum, Camper Alum, and Professional Game Developer), and Jayme Dale Mallindine (Sci-Tech & Arts Senior Director)! We’ll also have guest appearances on our Twitch stream! 

Reach out to the main office at scitecharts@urj.org. We’re happy to help answer any further questions!