Through a grant awarded by the National Science Foundation, Lehigh Carbon Community College is holding its fifth annual edugaming workshop for middle school through college teachers on the LCCC Schnecksville campus.

The workshop will be held June 22 through 25 and Nov. 14. Participants who complete all five days of the workshop will be paid $500.

Through hands-on activities and presentations from educators and industry experts, participants will learn a variety of game design approaches which remove the "quiz" aspect of educational games and replace it with exploratory, engaging techniques.

All middle school, high school and college teachers, as well as pre-service education majors are eligible to participate. Games created through this workshop will not be computer based, allowing them to be created and used by all educators, regardless of technical limitations.

A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided daily to all participants. Space is limited and an application is required. No previous experience with game design is necessary.

For more details and an application, visit computergaming@lccc.edu or call Lynne Pruneski at 610-799-1966.

MACUNGIE INSTITUTE

Gallery show opens May 1

A gallery show of published political cartoons created by Lehigh Valley-based cartoonist Ed Courrier has been scheduled by the Parkland Art League to run through June 30 at the Macungie Institute, 510 E. Main St. Macungie.

Courrier's editorial cartoons have appeared in local newspapers since he was a senior in high school.

Six months after graduating from Kent State University in 1977, Courrier found work at The Express, a daily newspaper in Easton as a staff artist. In 1979, Courrier built up a freelance business as a graphic designer, illustrator and cartoonist. Rodale Press, Rodale Institute, New Farm Magazine, the City of Allentown and Air Products were among his clients. Courrier later was employed as the art director for Sing Out! magazine 1994 through 2012.

The East Penn Press began publishing Courrier's political cartoons in August 1979 through August 1995, with the cartoons also appearing in other weeklies in The Press family of newspapers. In November 2007, the East Penn Press contacted Courrier to again have his work published.

A number of cartoons will be on display during the gallery show.

A free talk and workshop will be held 2 p.m. May 17 at Macungie Institute. Seating is limited; RSVP to courriertoons@ gmail.com.

This exhibition was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The Lehigh Valley Arts Council serves as the regional partner of Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts to administer these grants in Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties.