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| - Scouting organizations get duly deserved credit their use of and development of merit badges. For generations, the swimming community has had fun, credentially reward systems too. Patches, chevrons, pins, tags, cards, sticker books, letters, ribbons, medals, trophies, record boards, time standards and dozens of other motivational gadgets have been used with swim teams. USA Swimming , the national governing body for competitive swimming in tthe USA, has resources, experiences and opportunities that can offer programming synergy to efforts with Play.CLOH.org and LRNG.
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| - Scouting organizations get duly deserved credit their use of and development of merit badges. For generations, the swimming community has had fun, credentially reward systems too. Patches, chevrons, pins, tags, cards, sticker books, letters, ribbons, medals, trophies, record boards, time standards and dozens of other motivational gadgets have been used with swim teams. USA Swimming , the national governing body for competitive swimming in tthe USA, has resources, experiences and opportunities that can offer programming synergy to efforts with Play.CLOH.org and LRNG. One of the avenues for obtaining funding with the DML Competition is to “augment existing connected learning programming with new connected learning resources and/or experiences that must be conceived of and sequenced as playlists that span and scale across organizations or institutions.” The Play.CLOH.org's proposal includes a bridge from an existing program that has been operational for the past five years. USA Swimming of Colorado Springs started its DeckPass program in 2011. Developed and maintained in-house, DeckPass has awarded around 35 million patches since it opened. The USA Swimming patches are similar to XPs and Digital Badges in that they are bestowed to individuals based upon merit and achievements. The graphic patches form collections for individuals who have set-up free accounts with usernames, passwords. Of the USA Swimming's 400,000 athletes, about 300,000 have DeckPass accounts. Non-members can play along too. Individuals can issue friend requests for messaging and revealing their collections to others to witness. A majority of the patches are granted on Mondays following the weekend swim meets and come automatically basued upon a rules-based system that interacts with the national swims database. Some patches have come based upon holidays, geography, meet standards and coaches creations. USA Swimming Coaches (30,000) can design and issue custom patches to connect with the swimmers: Practice Beast, Performer of the Day, Kicking Winner, etc. Some patches are geared for swimmers in certain ages and provide appropriate insights on the Safe Sports, US Anti-Doping, Nutrition, Anti-Bulling. Rewards can be tied to patches. One cool feature of DeckPass is its QR Code Reader that could patch a kid attending and reading the USA Olympic Trials meet program. The program is growing by 20% a year and is especially valued by Moms OnDeck. Its purpose was to keep kids motivated, striving, and involved in the sport of swimming. The “cartooning” of the patches are not as well received with older kids so different tools are being deployed that help the more mature kids swim faster. The patches are less abstract in offering a cool reward but are getting more technical and show specific interests in how to better perform. Data analysis happens and the patches can unlock a video series to keep one motivated.
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