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Saturday February 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
Playing games can support people coping with anxiety and depression or healing from trauma, and can also help us grow our social skill set.  Learn how to access the social, emotional, and mental benefits of gaming….for the children and adults in your life and for yourself!

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Erika Davis-Pitre

owner, Fun and Games Enterprises
Erika loves conferences so much, she decided to purchase one of her favorites. And when she's not speaking and attending conferences around the globe, she's home with her hubby living in one of her favorite cities.
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Meg Grooms

Gameschool Academy
Meg Grooms is a long-time homeschooling mother of 6 children, ranging in age from preschool to married with kids of their own. Always a vagabond at heart, Meg and her family have embraced a slow travel lifestyle and currently call Southern California home. Your guess is as good as... Read More →
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Dave Mata

Chief Product Officer, Midas Brands
David is a video games industry executive, who is currently Chief Product Officer at Midas Brands, and is working on a health and wellness based mobile game.Previous to joining Midas Brands, he was Director of Product, at Beamable, focused on their live operations product for game... Read More →
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Alex Cook

Alex Cook is a 15-year-old competitive gamer. He has been participating in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate tournaments for about 3 years. He has several notable wins as well as ranking #6 in Eugene, OR.  Always unschooled, gaming has been an essential part of his educational journey... Read More →
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Jayn Holly Coburn

Jayn Holly Coburn is a 23-y/o always-unschooled gamer, artist, and filmmaker from Los Angeles.I’ve been passionate about video games my whole life, and I even have an Associate of Fine Arts in Game Design from The New York Film Academy. I also love movies and tv, reading, makeup... Read More →
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Shaun Biegler

Creative Volunteer, The Story School
Shaun Biegler was raised in New England and brought up unschooled by his parents. As a child he became very interested in Pokemon cards and Yugioh with the latter of the two being extremely helpful in simple math and helped to make the subject far more approachable. A game that would... Read More →
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Synetra Nunsuch

My name is Synetra Nunsuch.  I am a proud member of the active games team and have helped homeschool my younger sisters for almost 10 years. Due to my own visual impairment, I am always looking for new, fun ways to accommodate people with all different abilities.
Saturday February 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
San Clemente 2

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