"If School Were a Video Game: Disrupting Learning Using Game Design Principles, Not Gamification"
Re-inventing school using the hands-on, interactive, level-changing, risk-taking, adrenaline-charged principles of game design and Czikszentmihalyi's concept of flow

Marc is the 17-year-old founder of TeenTechSF and TeenTech Global Chair: "1000 teens on 5 continents on a mission to innovate, collaborate, and create for a better world." Marc speaks four languages and is a dual citizen of France and the United States. He embraces both his paternal heritage of French scientific rigor and the Chinese respect for mentors of his maternal heritage, but also the ingenuity and initiative that he has acquired growing up in Silicon Valley. Marc is a 2014 White House ESA LOFT Innovation Fellow, honored for his use of video games as a unique platform for social impact. He is a senior in the French Baccalaureate S/OIB program at International High School in San Francisco.

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