Dragon Talk: #376 - Stefan McNinch from UnboxEd

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Stefan began his educational career as an elementary teacher, during which he ran an increasingly popular Dungeons & Dragons tutoring and mentoring club. He later returned to school himself to advance his knowledge of game design and development, combining his passions to found UnboxEd in 2021. UnboxEd is a nonprofit afterschool program that uses board games and RPGs to engage low-income students in the subjects of Social Emotional Learning, History, STEM and Entrepreneurship. Stefan has previously partnered with Wizards of the Coast to promote Social-Emotional Learning using D&D as well as with PhDs to advance the research on game-based learning in elementary classrooms.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dragon Talk!
0:08.0	Dragon Talk!
0:09.0	We are here for the official Dungeons and Dragons podcast. I am Gregatito.
0:19.0	And that is Shelley Moo. Yep.
0:24.0	Hi.
0:25.0	Hi. I was confused because your claps didn't show up on my on our conversation for some reason.
0:30.0	So you were whatever's happening there is filtering out such terrible sounds as crapping.
0:35.0	Well, I mean that is not good.
0:37.3	Why would you filter out applause?
0:39.7	That's what I'm saying.
0:40.7	That's, those are good fast sounds yes that is we need it
0:45.0	doing a show yes everybody needs a little applause now and again it's true so
0:49.6	when you are doing your D&D club,
0:52.7	are you going to ask for applause?
0:54.0	You're going to be like, and now please clap.
0:56.3	I am probably going to get one of those big Niaani signs
1:00.2	that say, applause, applause, so they know. Also also when I walk into the room I
1:04.8	absolutely expect applause like I'm gonna be like a little bit late into the room
1:09.3	and then make a big grand entrance oh my gosh is it is it going to be like Ricky Drewbace
1:14.1	and the thing, you're going to bring in a boom box
1:16.2	with like a,
1:17.1	do-doo-n-n-n-n-n-noo,
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