 Past judges have included executives from Adobe, HP, Microsoft, and Google; professional video game producers; education leaders; and government officials including Senator Jay Rockefeller and former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise.The key outcome of Globaloria courses in any implementation format is that each student successfully learns to take an idea from invention to completion, and to collaborate with peers to design, research, code, program and publish an original educational game.Along the way, students also master global thinking, social media tools such as blogs and wikis, and the skills required to document, chronicle, and co-learn as active members of an online learning community.