Dreamers and Enthusiasts Car Club: Gaming Chapter

Club members or newcomers that join the Dreamers and Enthusiast Car Club: Gaming Chapter will take their love for cars and video games to the next level. Simulators, racing, and arcade gaming provide gamers with impressive content and hours of enjoyment on their own. In this chapter of the club, learners will be encouraged to use these games not only as an enjoyable social outlet, but to also better understand where their love of cars and gaming can take them. Club members will embark on various in-game motorsport endeavors closely mirroring the real life experiences of car mechanics, racers & teams, and engineers. While most of the adventuring will be powered by Coach Fred's access to numerous high-quality games and content, club members will also have the opportunity to engage with each other in games depending on the content being covered. Club sessions will generally be divided into 2-3 sections per meeting, with each section covering a different style game/simulator for a period of time. For example, a session may start with an in-depth use of Car Mechanic Simulator (part 1), where club members will work together on a project vehicle of their liking. The club may then transition into the Motorsports Manager portion of the class (part 2), wherein members will continue to work together to manage the operations of a world-class level racing organization. To end the session, the club may engage with the teacher in a racing/arcade style game (part 3), like iRacing, BeamNG.drive, or Rocket League (arcade) where racing techniques, physics, and strategies will be discussed and practiced. Interaction is key to making this chapter of the club successful, and learners will be encouraged to share their desired games and how they would like to spend time in the sessions. With that being said, there is no requirement for learners to actually have or play any of the games, however in many circumstances the multiplayer capabilities of these games could enrich the overall learning environment (part 3, for reference). As a life long gamer myself, I have noticed that many of life's challenges subtly (or blatantly) make their way into video games. Frustration, despair, and dejection are common momentary effects of video games. I intend to use that to help club members persevere through challenges not only individually, but as a unit as well.