Award Season Continues for Mission US
March 4, 2013
Since launching last year, Mission US: Flight to Freedom continues to win accolades from the education, media, and gaming worlds. Flight to Freedom, the second of the Mission US series of adventure games on which ASHP/CML has collaborated with public television station WNET/Thirteen and other partners, features the journey of Lucy King, a (fictional) 14-year-old girl enslaved on a Kentucky Plantation. The game and curriculum immerse players in the history of slave communities and resistance, and the wider anti-slavery struggles that led up to the Civil War. Flight to Freedom has been praised for it’s “intelligent” and “thought-provoking” approach to history. Recent awards and acknowledgements include:
- 2012 History Makers Awards: Nominee – Best Interactive Production
- 2012 International Serious Play Awards: Gold Medal – Education Category
- 2012 National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) Award: Winner for Classroom Content in the Instructional Media category
- 2012 Jayisgames Annual Awards: Nominee – Point-and-Click Adventure