MIT senior Kayode Dada, who is passionate about game design, has created “Campus Trade,” a card game to use as an icebreaker at MIT Orientation. He uses his roles as an MIT Admissions blogger and orientation captain to build community among prospective and incoming students.

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MIT senior Kayode Dada, a mechanical engineering major who has designed board games since high school, created a trading-card game called 'Campus Trade' used as an icebreaker during MIT Orientation. Working with a research designer at the MIT Media Lab's Center for Constructive Communication, he redesigned the game after observing that students traded cards without talking, adding tarot-sized cards with student artwork and icebreaker questions. Dada also blogs for MIT Admissions and serves as an orientation captain, and hopes to pursue a career in game design after graduation.

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