Gamifying Grades of Green

What is Grades of Green?

StatisticsGrades of Green has:

● > 140,000 students● 224 schools● 31 states

Trash-Free Lunch Challenge:● eliminated 30,000 lbs. of

trash from landfills

● 70% of the winning schools cut their lunch trash by 90%

Why Grades of Green?

To Create a Road to Mastery

Bartle Player Types For Grades of GreenSocializer - Seek community and interaction with others.

Socializers are signified by a heart.

Achiever - Seeks progress and achievements.

Achievers are signified by a diamond.

SocializerSocializers will enjoy:

- Discussing various topics on the green forum.

- Accumulating a good reputation.

- Sharing their Grades of Green stories on the forum

Socializers will prioritize:

- Working with others.

- Gaining a reputation in the organization as someone who is helpful.

AchieverAchievers will enjoy:

- Leveling up and displaying their achievements.

- Visualization of their actions. Achievers will prioritize:

- Creating goals for themselves.

- Completing the various initiatives.

Purpose of a Gamified System

A gamified system will:● introduce GoG to new users.● familiarize players with the GoG website through

onboarding.● design a progression to mastery through quests.● engage GoG supporters with fun and exciting

quests to increase completion of initiatives.● create global collaboration between schools.

Summary: Game Mechanics Used

Grades of Green ForumThe Grades of Green Forum, similar to a city in most Role-Playing Games, is where players:● Gather information● Collaborate ● Interact● Create meaningful discussions.

Earn new titles on the forum through:● Reputation points● Posts● Upvotes

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Upvote your reputation through the Q&A subforum,quests, and challenges.

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The non-profit GOG creates calls for action through it’s green initiatives. Green initiatives can be lengthy and intimidating, especially to those new to environmental awareness. Quests fix this problem, breaking larger initiatives into more manageable pieces.

Green Initiatives

Would you rather be asked to reduce your trash consumption or start a grand adventure, increasing your positive environmental impact one quest at a time? Quests allow users to have a clear goal to complete, while engaging them in a fun experience.

Quests

Quests

As players move through the Grades of Green quests, they will level up, giving them access to new privileges and quests, as well as titles on the Green Forum! These levels reward players with titles like Green Guru, Environmental Socialite, and Trash Talker.

How to level up:● Collect enough

reputation points.

● Receive upvotes on the green forum.

● Complete Green Challenges.

● Register schools.

Impact: On the front page of the Grades of Green website, a counter records the amount of hypothetical trees saved by all of the Grades of Green schools and students.

SummaryMy gamification system aims to create a more collaborative environment for Grades of Green and increase completion of Grades of Green’s various initiatives.

I identified Grades of Green’s support base as a combination of Socializers and Achievers.