Black Girls Dive Foundation Launches Partnership with Infinite Scuba
Black Girls Dive Foundation (BGDF) has been expanding its strategic partnerships this past year to ensure that they are meeting mission critical goals and objectives by providing innovative STEM activities that empower young girls and cultivate their STEM identity. During these extraordinary times, more and more youth-based organizations are seeking to find their new normal as they navigate unchartered waters of quarantines, copious amounts of antibacterial handwash, Clorox wipes, and social distancing. Youth service programs have been tremendously affected as face-to-face engagement has all but vanished. Yearning for strategic ways to maintain a connection with the youth to whom we provide services, necessity becomes the mother of invention to actively engage youth in mission-critical activities.
Today, Black Girls Dive Foundation announces its partnership with Cascade Game Foundry (CGF), a leader in the simulation gaming industry. This powerful collaboration enables CGF to raise awareness of ocean environmental issues to a broader and more diversified user base and BGDF to increase brand awareness to more people across the globe and provide access to innovative pedagogical tools that enable deeper learning and an opportunity for youth to explore the underwater world through Cascade Game Foundry’s diving simulation game, Infinite Scuba®. In Infinite Scuba, players do what real divers do – explore real-world locations, identify wildlife, search for sunken artifacts, take photos, clean up the reef, and manage their air and depth, while learning about dive science, local culture, and environmental issues.
About Black Girls Dive Foundation
BGDF is a non-profit entity under Section 50l (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that was founded in 2017. Its main office is located in Owings Mills, Maryland and has chapters in Trenton, New Jersey and Atlanta Georgia. BGDF provides education and outreach to girls who are from historically disenfranchised ethnic minority groups and/or live in communities that are underserved and under-resourced. BGDF’s mission objectives addresses three critical issues: (1) the racial and socioeconomic achievement gap that undermines our ideals of freedom, equality and opportunity; (2) limited or restricted sense of youth agency and voice; and (3) cultivating the next generation of scientists, conservationists and planetary stewards. Our work is conceptually grounded in STEM identity research that views Black women’s experience in science through a lens where one’s gender, and racial and ethnic identities affect one’s science identity.
About Cascade Game Foundry
Cascade Game Foundry (CGF™) is an independent software development team composed of experienced divers and veteran game makers who empower people to explore the world from home through video games and virtual-reality experiences for diverse audiences. CGF is a Washington-state Social Purpose Corporation (aka B Corp) whose social goals are environmental education and the promotion of STEM skills.
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For more information, press only:
Dr. Nevada Winrow
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Kathie Flood, Cascade Game Foundry CEO
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