Schools receive $20,000 to fund esports team

Mikki Angerman just wants everyone to feel included. She isn’t an esports fanatic. She doesn’t even call herself a gamer. Instead, she’s a special services educator who is passionate about promoting inclusion and acceptance.

“Our world right now needs empathy more than anything else,” she said. Angerman wants the middle and high school esports team to be a conduit for just that.

She hosted preliminary and casual esports practices last spring, but after realizing what was needed to both expand the team and possibly compete against other schools, she opted to pursue outside grant funding ahead o...

 
 

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