By Student Affairs
Thursday, 07 15 2021

Generation Esports is a nonprofit that builds community through gaming, education, and charity. We're the largest league for high school esports and rapidly growing middle school and college leagues. Their mission is simple; educate teens by playing games, create a space for mentorship and community, and partner with schools and charities to create opportunities for youth. The foundation of generation esports is scholastic gaming and the positive impact of video games in schools. Students in our leagues learn teamwork, leadership, communication, time management, and other valuable life skills that help them succeed academically and in life. In the last school year alone, we gave out hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships to students in our program!

 

The esports team at Texas A&M University-San Antonio is a WINNER of the 2022 Learn and Build STEAM (LABS) program! Gaming equipment was provided to schools by Generation Esports in partnership with AMD and ASUS. In addition to hundreds of college applicants nationwide, A&M-SA was chosen as one of five winners! The program is designed to increase the presence of competitive collegiate esports at universities across the country and help expose a new generation to the benefits of STEM subjects like computer science and coding. As winners, the school will receive six all-new gaming PCs to be used in their esports lab. This will significantly benefit our students as they compete in tournaments against other colleges and universities nationwide.

"Receiving these six gaming stations is an incredible boon for our program – we will continue to succeed at the highest levels of collegiate esports and create great content for our community,” said A&M-SA Head Esports Coach Aaron Jaggers. “Six additional gaming stations empower A&M-SA esports to host collegiate events for local high schools and our community at large.”