Samana (board game)
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| author | Simon Germani, Marvin Frohmajer |
| publishing company | Global Players S-GbR |
| Art | Board game |
| Teammates | 2 or 2-4 |
| Duration | 15-25 minutes |
| Age | from 8 years
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Innovation Award East Wuerttemberg 2017 School competition of the Federal President "One world for all" Würth Education Award 2016 Project competition 2015 of the educational exchange service in Bonn |
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Samana - an encounter that changes! ("Samana": Hindi for "encounter") is a board game by the student company Global Players S-GbR. The aim of the game is to meet your fellow players. This meeting of pieces changes the direction of travel and new perspectives arise.
The game was developed by students from Hellenstein-Gymnasium Heidenheim and its partner school, the Delhi Public School Navi Mumbai. The game principle goes back to the traditional Indian sport of kabaddi .
The game was manufactured in all of its components under fair conditions, which, according to the student company, represented a unique selling point on the board game market.
history
The first prototypes of Samana were created in 2014 as part of the India exchange between the Delhi Public School Navi Mumbai in Navi Mumbai , India and the Hellenstein High School in Heidenheim . In the beginning, the task that the exchange group was supposed to accomplish was to develop a board game from a traditional Indian game, comparable to the global process that resulted from the Indian game Pachisi das Deutsche Mensch ärgere dich nicht . From this project, the student company Global Players S-GbR was founded, which from then on took over the development work.
The serial production began in December 2015 was launch on December 16, 2015.
On February 19 and 20, 2016, Samana was presented at the 19th International Game Inventor Fair in Haar. It was included in the Bavarian Games Archive.
From February to May 2016 the game was available in the Weltladen Heidenheim. For some time it was available in the Weltladen Stuttgart and on the company's website. After the developers graduated from high school, the student company stopped working.
In the course of the corona crisis and the associated nationwide school closings , the Hellenstein-Gymnasium published a free "do-it-yourself edition" by Samana for download in March 2020 .
content
Samana is a classic board game for families. It consists of two game variants that can be played by assembling the game board differently. While the first of the two variants is a game that is designed for two players, the second game variant can also be played by four.
Awards
The project idea took 1st place in the 2015 project competition of the educational exchange service as part of the international student exchange program .
School competition of the Federal President
On June 14, 2016, Samana won the Federal President's school competition on development policy "All for One World - One World for All". The Global Players S-GbR was awarded first prize in category 4 (school classes 11–13).
The motto of the competition was “Dealing with Diversity”. The jury's decision was justified as follows:
"The project is particularly convincing due to the collective effort that took place at eye level, as well as its sustainability, on the one hand in terms of its fair production and the differentiated development process, on the other hand in terms of its use and publicity of its contents in India and Germany beyond the school context."
Würth education award
Samana and the student company Global Players S-GbR won the education award of the Würth Foundation in 2016 .
The Würth Education Prize has been awarded annually to outstanding economic school projects since 2007. The participating schools received professional support in the implementation of their project for a year from the “Competence Center for Economic Education”.
The award ceremony took place on July 25, 2016 in Stuttgart . The project received the 2nd prize.
East Wuerttemberg Innovation Prize
On July 14, 2017, the Global Players S-GbR will receive the East Wuerttemberg Innovation Award in the Education and Science category. The award recognizes the performance of the students as well as the related success of the student company to date.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Würth Education Prize 2016 , accessed on June 26, 2016.
- ↑ SWP: "For board game: HG pupils awarded by Federal President Gauck" , published on June 16, 2016 in the Heidenheimer Zeitung and the Heidenheimer Neue Presse ; Retrieved June 26, 2016.
- ↑ Patrick Vetter: Samana HG student company produces the only really fair board game. In: NOISE , Heidenheimer Zeitung , February 7, 2016, accessed on June 26, 2016.
- ↑ a b SAMANA - encounter that changes! Hellenstein-Gymnasium , accessed on June 26, 2016.
- ↑ Game Invention Fair 2016 in Haar , spieleakademie.at, accessed on June 26, 2016.
- ↑ Video: Regio TV: Pfiffiges Brettspiel ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , First broadcast on Regio TV Schwaben on February 11, 2016.
- ↑ SAMANA - New student company produces high quality board games In: Wirtschaft in Ostwürttemberg: 03/2016, March 10, 2016, p. 25
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- ↑ Video: Category 4, 1st place: Hellenstein-Gymnasium, Heidenheim , AllefuereineWelt, accessed on June 26, 2016.
- ↑ Super User: Project competition of the educational exchange service in Bonn. In: www.hg.hdh.schule-bw.de. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Press release award ceremony , accessed on June 26, 2016 (PDF; 87 kB, German).
- ↑ Topic 2015/2016 , accessed on June 27, 2016
- ↑ The Würth Education Prize , accessed on July 26, 2016 (PDF; 895 kB, German).
- ↑ a b press release , wuerth.de, accessed on July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Ulrich Geßler: The region honors its talents . In: Schwäbische.de . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on July 28, 2017]).
