Geek Fam opens its own training center called Geek Academy

Where gaming meets important life skills.

Besidesunveiling its all-new Dota 2 rosterfor the 2019-2020 DPC Season last week, Geek Fam also announced the opening of Geek Academy, the organization’s very own esports training center.

Unlike most training platforms, Geek Academy is not just for Geek Fam members. It also caters to gamers of all kinds who just want to improve their in-game skills.

Credit: Geek Academy/Geek Fam

The goal of the facility is to educate gamers on how they can elevate their gameplay skills for various esports titles and, generally, become better individuals in the process.

Geek Fam aims to do this by using video games and esports as learning tools to instil positive values and life-skills that are useful in the gaming ecosystem and real-life.

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Since esports, and the video games community as a whole, can be a toxic environment, Geek Fam’s empowerment approach is focused on three key pillars:

By offering these soft-skill development and personalized learning features, Geek Academy wants to allow each gamer to fully excel in their training.

Currently, Geek Academy only has Dota and Counterstrike: Global Offensive as part of its education syllabus. Classes will run for two hours a day, all week with breaks on Tuesday and Friday.

More details on Geek Academy can be foundhere. Those who want to get into the Tuition Program can directly visit thispage.

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