Our boys created an excellent video for this year’s Move Mining Next Generation contest. These boys made us incredibly proud of this story. They used the adobe suite, in particular #CharacterAnimator, to create the first chapter of a series with a “Stranger Things” feel. The story is complete with an alien Inter-Planetary Protection Agency and … Continue reading iPad Trees?!
Many people have contacted us asking how they can support our new board game Mine Dash. My answer has been to buy our books and let me know if you’d be interested in play testing. We need to wait to make any substantial leaps forward with the game until after the Move Mining competition, in … Continue reading Ore: The Mining Board Game
Happy New Year from the Mineral Maniacs! We are excited to announce that our board game idea has been selected as one of five finalists for the 2019 Move Mining competition. The Move Mining finals are scheduled for Monday, February 25 at 4:30pm MST at the Denver Convention Center. The event will have a livestream … Continue reading Move Mining Finalist 2019
It has been a while since we’ve last posted on The Mineral Maniacs. We’ve had quite a busy summer, but we’ve still been working on the books (Jules is almost finished with book #2!!) and expanding the brand. In fact we’ve come up with another idea to pitch for Move Mining 2019, a board game … Continue reading Mine Dash Board Game
Today is exactly one year since the debut of The Mineral Maniacs at the 2017 Move Mining competition. We have learned so much this past year about the publishing business, children’s literature, and STEM-based education. But most of all, we have been so humbled by the support and encouragement we’ve received from the Mining and … Continue reading Thank you Move Mining!!
A week into my fifth grade year, my teacher Mrs. Wilks told the whole class how impressed she was with the reading journal I kept over the summer (something all students had to turn in). It was embarrassing, awkward, and one of the most important moments of my young life. It seems silly now that … Continue reading Part II: Our Journey
Move Mining’s theme is to change the world’s perception of an industry already changing the world. We were honored to be among the finalists at the inaugural Move Mining competition, held last week at the SME Annual Conference & Expo in Denver. Find more about the event at www.movemining.org. Facebook Live Watch the video of … Continue reading The Mineral Maniacs at Move Mining
