BranchOut forest-building card game

Designed and created with Alison Dobbins, Meg Heeres, Sarah Emmendorfer, based on 2 retreats with the rest of the BranchOut team including a site visit to the Pando aspen clone, and completed in the spring of 2026. This cooperative card game is designed for middle-school science students in Utah.

Click on any of the photos below to see full-sized images of some of the cards:

Download card game sheets as a PDF formatted for printing:

BranchOut is an interdisciplinary collaborative combining forestry, dance, theater, technology, costuming, music, and visual art. Funded through the STEAM Power Fellowship at Michigan State University, with: Alison Dobbins (Christopher Newport University); Alexis Bacon, Eleanor Siler, and Hailey Becker, Sarah Emmendorfer (Michigan State University); Kori Wakamatsu and Karen Jensen and Kinect student dance troupe (Brigham Young University); Meg Heeres (City of Henderson, NV); and Anne Yoncha and Alyssa Ridder (MSU Denver). 

Photos of our site visits, retreats, and drafts in the making of the card game:

Information about the first iteration of BranchOut can be found here.