Simcoach Games’ Jessica Trybus will discuss how to gamify career training at Blueprint York

Advancements in robotics and automation mean that the manufacturing jobs of today look nothing like the assembly line jobs of the past. But many of the high school students about to enter the workforce don’t know that. So how can companies in rapidly changing fields like manufacturing or IT communicate to students what a career in the field is actually like?

Pittsburgh’s Simcoach Games believes that the answer is video games. The company first spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center in 2005. Since then, Simcoach Games has partnered with companies in construction, health care, and other fields to create free video games on iOS and Android that help students learn what a day on the job is like in those industries.