A team of graduates from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario They design educational games and train teachers to implement them in the classroom.

With more than 15.000 games published and distributed throughout the country, the Mechanical Engineer Federico Acien, the Graduate in Political Science Franco Toffoli, the Graduates in Social Communication Ignacio Negri and Guillermo García and the Teacher Germán Cuesta formed the publishing house ten years ago Tëkun (to sow) with the premise of entertaining and teaching.

They propose to leave the screens for a moment and connect with the experiences of a board game, meet, interact and chat at school, with family, with friends. Convinced that educational games improve teaching and allow for greater interaction, their principles are a passion for education, respect for nature, sovereignty and responsible fun.

In this way, they created the “Expeditions” collection, made up of three sets of cards that cover the biodiversity of Argentina’s ecoregions. The first, “Wetlands Expedition,” aims to promote knowledge of the flora and fauna of wetlands, with a special emphasis on threatened and endangered species. “Serrano Expedition” was designed to promote knowledge of the flora and fauna of the Córdoba and San Luis mountain ranges. And “Maritime Expedition” is an adventure that invites you to sail across the Argentine sea until you reach the center of Antarctica and became the first of national scope.

Given the context of fires in the wetlands and forced confinement during the pandemic, “Wetlands Expedition” had a lot of impact, according to Toffoli. The idea arose while the members of the group were spending a day on the island and they came up with the idea of ​​making a game that would be educational and help them learn about the species that live there. “Most people know what a giraffe or an elephant is, but nothing about the maned wolf,” he explains.

From that initial idea, they thought about the game mechanics, the rules, and what they wanted to convey.