Mission Hydrosci 2.0

Eric Wulff

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Andrew Venola

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Ian Shaffer

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Alex Robbins

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Aaron Plasket

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Joshua Martinez

Christian Hirni

Sina Golzy

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Kenneth Furtado

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Isaac Eckardt

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Alex Earley

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Hunter Deresinski

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Neil Ferman

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Savannah Walters

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Kaitlyn Self

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Gregory Romans

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Joe Griffin

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Joe Griffin is the Founding Director of Adroit Studios (adroit.missouri.edu) housed in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. Since coming to MU, Joe has collaborated on grants totaling over $18 million by providing Game Production expertise as well as other game development services. Joe has designed game-based learning and support systems for individual learning, for collaborative learning, and for nontraditional educational contexts. Joe has worked on the development of iSocial, a 3D VLE for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Joe was recently working with a team of researchers and developers awarded $10 million to scale up Mission HydroSci (mhs.missouri.edu), a game-based 3D virtual learning system, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Joe is also currently working on vSchool, a game based assessment to be used in middle school SEL education funded with $2 million from IES.

Carolyn Jarecki

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My name is Carolyn Jarecki, and I’m a graduate of the Texas A&M Visualization program. As an artist, I primarily create character-based work such as animation and illustration, but I also really enjoy doing UI design and general 3D work. In my spare time, I like to work puzzles, play video games, and learn languages!

Wenyi Lu

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My name is Wenyi, and I am a current graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Missouri. Although my research focuses on game-based learning analytics, I am passionate about all studies related to data science applications within 3D game environments.

Tim Linder

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Dale Musser

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Dale Musser is an associate teaching professor in the IT Program at the University of Missouri. Musser was previously a faculty member in Network Learning Systems in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri and a manager of entertainment and educational software development at IBM in Atlanta. His research and development work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Education. He was a co-founder of MU’s Center for Technology Innovations in Education.

Joshua Whittom

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Heya! My name’s Joshua Whittom, and I’m a current master’s student in Library and Information Science at the University of Missouri. I’m a game designer and writer, among a number of other creative pursuits.

Jim Laffey

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James Laffey earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Prior to MU, Laffey worked for Apple Computer, Inc. conducting research on learning and support systems and developing award winning interactive learning systems and innovative performance support systems. Since coming to MU, Laffey has been the PI for grants of nearly $25 million and a collaborator on grants of an additional $4 million. Recent work includes the development of iSocial, a 3D virtual learning environment for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders to develop social competencies. iSocial supports youth who may not have access to local support through interaction with a remote teacher and peers. Laffey is currently leading a team of researchers and developers to create Mission HydroSci, a game-based 3D virtual learning system, with funding from the Department of Education. Mission HydroSci teaches middle school students about water systems and scientific argumentation in ways that fit the Next Generation Science Standards.

Will Slama

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I’m Will Slama, a recent graduate of Mizzou’s Information Technology program and a long-time digital media enthusiast. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had some kind of computer project in the works; from using the family computer to look up “how to make video games” when I was twelve, all the way up to getting to work with the amazing team here at Adroit!

Alex Urban

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Alex Urban, Phd, investigates how information is organized, communicated, and experienced in immersive virtual worlds. His overarching research goal is to determine how novel media, like video games or virtual reality, may foster personally meaningful experiences and promote inquiry. To this end, he has led investigations on information experiences within commercial games and game-based learning applications as well as gameplay documentation. His latest work focuses on digitally-induced awe and its potential for education.

Sean Goggins

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Sean Goggins is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Missouri. Sean’s research focuses generally on social computing, with specific active projects in open source software health and sustainability, serious games, and cybersecurity. Goggins is a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s working group on community health analytics for open source software CHAOSS, a co-creator of Mission Hydro Sci, and the author of over 100 papers and three books focusing on understanding how social technologies influence organizational, small group and community dynamics, typically including analysis of electronic trace data from systems combined with the perspectives of people whose behavior is traced. His work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Mozilla, Red Hat Software, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research. Goggins is also the creator of the Data Science and Analytics master’s program at Missouri.

Angela Jarecki

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My name is Angela Jarecki, and I’m a graduate of Columbus College and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, and the University of Missouri with a Master of Science in Instructional Design. I love how working at Adroit has allowed me to blend my illustration and instructional design skills to help create educational games.

Brian Nielsen

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Hello! My name is Brian. I’ve just made the switch from full time Civil Engineer to Game Programmer! I’ve been developing games as a hobby for roughly six years and am very excited to be part of the team here at Adroit. Outside of game development I’m a big fan of all things martial arts. I’m currently focusing on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. My favorite video games are Final Fantasy VIII and Overwatch.

Andrew Essing

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I’m currently going into my sophomore year at the University of Missouri. I’m majoring in Business without an emphasis and getting a minor in Japanese.

Charles Sielert

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Charles Sielert is a 3D artist who has a passion for constantly creating and learning. Originally from Sturgeon, Charles came to the University of Missouri to study Architecture, moved on to Arts & Science, then to Information Technology were he would stay and graduate in the Fall of 2020. Working with different professors and companies across Columbia on Virtual Reality projects, Charles hopes to continue constantly improving upon his designs and their functionality to best suit the needs of those he works with.

Colin Smith

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Hi! I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I am currently a junior at Mizzou studying Information Technology.

Erin Weaver

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Hi! I’m a former science teacher pursuing my Ed.S in Learning Technologies and Design and a graduate certificate in Serious Games and Simulation Design from Mizzou. I love animals, science, and being outdoors. I currently live in San Francisco with my husband, Brandon, and my fluffy cat Scout.

Jonathan Breedlove

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Logan Priess

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Aaron Moss

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Kyle Cutler

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