Bio:
Scot Osterweil is the Creative Director of MIT's Education Arcade  
and currently leads "Labyrinth," a federally funded effort to design  
and develop games that teach math and literacy to underserved youth.  
Before coming to MIT, Scot was the Senior Designer at TERC, where he  
designed Zoombinis Island Odyssey, winner of the 2003 Bologna New  
Media Prize, and the latest game in the Zoombinis line of products  
(Riverdeep/TLC). Scot is the creator of the Zoombinis, and with Chris  
Hancock he co-designed the multi-award winning Logical Journey of the  
Zoombinis, and its first sequel, Zoombinis Mountain Rescue. Scot is  
the also the designer of the TERCworks games Switchback, and Yoiks!,  
the latter also with Chris Hancock.

Scot's other software designs include work on the educational  
products InspireData, Tabletop and Tabletop Jr., and IBM's The Nature  
of Science.  At TERC he participated in research projects on the role  
of computer games in learning, and on the use of video in data  
collection and representation. Previously, he worked in television,  
on the production of Public Television's Frontline, Evening at Pops,  
and American Playhouse, and as an animator on a wide range of  
programs. He is a graduate of Yale College with a degree in Theater  
Studies.