Teaching

  • Team Player Jam – Game Jam

    In August 2025, I had the pleasure of organizing Team Player Jam, an in-person game jam focused on creating 2D top-down co-op games. Players were given the ability to pick up objects, and teams were challenged to design around the theme of Recycling using this foundation.

    You can check out their work here.
    You can check out their post jam interviews here.

  • Summer 2025 CCNY STEM Institute Semester

    During the Summer 2025 semester, I had the pleasure of teaching in the CCNY STEM Institute, where high school students developed their own projects. Featuring nine unique and imaginative games created by 40 brilliant students, these titles showcase the incredible talent of young developers diving into Unity for the very first time.

    Each game is a testament to their creativity, problem-solving skills, and passion for game design.

    You can check out their projects here.

  • Jump Jam – Game Jam

    In June 2025, I had the pleasure of organizing Jump Jam, an in-person game jam focused on creating 2D platformer games centered around the theme of “Lost Signal” and digital mental health. We had six groups competing, each producing amazing projects in just one day.

    You can check out their work here.

  • Spring 2025 CCNY STEM Institute Semester

    During the Spring 2025 semester, I had the pleasure of teaching our regular high school class, which offered the potential to earn college credit. Featuring 14 diverse and imaginative games, these projects represent the incredible work of high school students exploring and applying Unity for the very first time. Each game reflects their creativity, problem-solving, and passion for design.

    I also had the great opportunity to run an incubator for the STEM Institute for the first time. In this program, returning students came back to sharpen their skills and take on more ambitious projects.

    You can check out the work from the high school class here, and the incubator projects here.

  • Fall 2024 CCNY STEM Institute Semester

    During the Fall 2024 semester, I ran three classes: one for middle school students, one for high school students, and one for high school students who were ESL. All of the classes did amazing work, and I’m very proud to have had the chance to teach them.

    I was especially happy to have taught the ESL class as I was an ESL student and didn’t get to have opportunities due to my lack of English. It’s important to allow students to reach beyond the basic classes, regardless of their language barriers, and work with them to give them skills any other student should have access to.

    You can check out the middle school games here, the high school games here, and the ESL high school games here.

  • Summer 2024 CCNY STEM Institute Semester

    In the summer of 2024, I had my largest class to date, with over fifty students and ten TAs. In addition to the usual game development class, the students worked on creating a research study based around the DOT, which they then presented for the NYC Science Research Mentoring Consortium at the Museum of Natural History. It was a wonderful summer filled with great games and projects. You can check out the student game projects here.

  • The Coding Space

    For a brief time, I worked with The Coding Space as a teacher, helping elementary school students learn the basics of coding using Code.org, and create their first games in Scratch, a block-based game engine, and WoolfJS, an introductory JavaScript game engine.

  • Fall 2023 CCNY STEM Institute Semester

    During the Fall 2023 Semester I had the pleasure of working with 20 wonderful middle school students who created 20 amazing games. The class spanned thirteen weeks and covered all elementary aspects of game design, culminating in the creation of games. You can check out the student projects here.

  • WHEELS November 2023

    In November 2023, I had the pleasure of running a three-week workshop where I taught high school students how to develop a 2D platformer. This workshop later became the foundation for a semester-long 2D platformer game development course that I implemented as part of the core curriculum. You can check out the student projects here.

  • Bitsy Game Jam

    In January 2023, I returned to Townsend Harris High School to give a presentation on Bitsy, a web-based narrative game engine. I set up a game jam for the students to practice their newfound skills. In the end, I received two amazing entries that showcase the creativity of young minds when challenged by limited resources of such game engine. You can check out the student games here.

  • Guest Speaking

    In November 2022, I visited Townsend Harris High School to speak to the ModIT and Gaming Clubs about getting into game development and how they could start their journey in it. You can see the article about it here.

  • Summer 2022 CCNY STEM Institute Semester
    In the summer of 2022, I had the great opportunity to teach my first Game Development class at the STEM Institute at CCNY. Throughout the semester, I taught Unity and C# to a class of twenty wonderful high school students. During the last week and a half of the six-week curriculum, the students worked in groups to create their own games from scratch. They formed eleven teams and developed these amazing games, which you can view here.