Working with Local Schools in Victoria

Interactivity Board Game Cafe has been way more successful than we ever expected it to be when we started up 5 years ago. Other Board Game Cafe’s are opening new branches or franchising…but that’s not really a thing we are interested in. We want to focus our energy on giving back to this city and to try to create a culture of gaming.

That’s why we donate 5% of every board game sale to schools in Victoria.

Looking for our School Video Tutorials, click here.

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Organizing a Game Night is Really Easy!

Book your school game night for SD61-63 now.

We would love nothing more than to give every kid in Victoria the chance to dip their toes into the Wonderful World of Board Games. Technology is a part of our lives, kids will play video games, use tablets and watch TV. Trying to prevent that is like trying to stop the tide coming in with your hands. There is space in this world for them to play board and card games as well though. The sooner we can introduce them and their parents to games, the better the chance they will continue to make it a part of their lives.

We will come to your school and run a game night, similar to movie nights that PACs put on. This is totally free! We will provide all the games and help people learn them. It’s really as simple as that.

What you need to do:

1. Book your night using the form below. We run game nights on Thursdays and Fridays during the school year. When booking, you choose your event start time. School Game Night will run for up to 2 hours.

2. Provide enough tables and chairs for everyone coming. In our experience, you’ll need more than you think.

3. Publicize the event.

That’s it! It’s really that easy.

Optionally you can also:
Sell food and drink or charge a small admission to raise funds.

With thanks to awesome local Victoria business Checkfront for donating this booking system.

Please make one booking per school per school year. We try to give every school an opportunity to host one of these nights but with more schools (in SD61-63) than available nights taking two would mean another school misses out.

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Looking to buy a game you played during a school game night? Or are you looking for a list of great educational games? Start here.

We are here to help in any way we can. We’d love to:

Run game nights after school, similar to movie nights that PACs put on. All we require is a space (usually the gym), tables, chairs and some volunteers to help set it up. The PAC is welcome to sell food and drink. We will provide the games and teachers at no charge.
Help set up a game club in your school. We can suggest appropriate games and provide them at a steep discount.
Teachers and administrators who want to introduce games and gaming into the new curriculum are welcome to contact us. Teachers have a lot more flexibility in school and modern board games offer a huge potential for learning, especially fun learning.
Come in to your class/es and run some fun gaming events (minimum grade 4 and up for this).
Bring a class down to the cafe for a field trip (we charge $3 per kid, adult help don’t pay).
Anything else you have dreamed up and would like to chat with us about.

This is not a money making exercise and we will not charge for any of our time (within reason). We do have a limited number of available hours, so depending on demand we may not be able to fit everything in at once. At this time we will limit ourselves to just SD61-63.

Please contact us at ibgamecafe@gmail.com