400+ Internships
Number of internship opportunities available to our students in the U.S. and abroad.
The Game Design and Development program collaborates with partners inside and out of the Quinnipiac community to bring innovative ways of teaching others to life.
Clubfoot is a congenital deformity that twists the foot inward and downward. It is one of the most common congenital orthopedic conditions globally, impacting approximately 174,000 children annually. Although treatment is straightforward and minimally invasive, ensuring lifelong correction takes time and requires significant partnership and engagement with families. Developing a tool to begin to educate family members on the importance of brace wearing could be transformational in successful outcomes.
Objectives:
- Educate family members on the importance of brace wearing and adherence to the established evidenced-based standard.
- Help children understand the importance and reinforce the necessity of bracing.
Email Elena Bertozzi if you are interested in joining.
Work with faculty to help create a virtual, online version of a successful educational room escape game designed help health science students practice some of the competencies of interprofessional healthcare practice.
Objectives:
- Adapt and rework an existing room escape game to fit the digital format.
- Allow players to work together online, potentially using an existing multiplayer platform like VR Chat or RecRoom.
Email Jonah Warren if you are interested in joining.
Professor Elena Bertozzi and a team of GDD students are working with Family Planning Center of Barbados on deploying a serious game to improve patient education about family planning.
Objectives:
- To determine how best to deploy patient education games in healthcare settings.
Email Elena Bertozzi if you are interested in joining.
History Chip is a global online archive of true stories told by anyone anywhere to build a true people’s history of the world, illuminating shared human experience. Even short and simple stories of school, meals, clothing are important and welcome. We seek to incorporate gaming to incentivize and facilitate writing and adding stories to the site.
Objectives:
- Make writing a story simple and fun for non-writers.
- Make adding stories to the site simple.
- Incentivize repeat participation - through recognition of writers’ contributions.
Email Jonah Warren if you are interested in joining.
Collaborate with Dr. Victor Francone of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine on educational materials to teach medical students DNA replication.
Learning objectives:
- Summarize the DNA polymerases and other proteins required for DNA replication.
- Summarize the mechanism of DNA replication and why discontinuous synthesis is required.
- Explain the process of telomere replication and relate telomere dynamics to aging and disease.
- Explain DNA polymerase proofreading and the impact on fidelity.
Email Jonah Warren if you are interested in joining.
Past Collaboration Opportunities
- Develop a VR/AR Game using Unreal at Yale
- Prototype an Augmented Reality-Based Scavenger Hunt
- Develop an AR App to Help Study Car Accidents
- Create a Game About Cybersecurity
- Create a Digital Literacy Game
- Create a Game About Living in Poverty and Finanical Literacy
