Your kids’ love for gaming may lead them to their next big job before they even get out of high school. Yes, not college, but high school.

Esports jobs are in extremely high demand right now, and corporations are doing all that they can to train kids who have some talent and skills in this field to provide them jobs and opportunities before they even get to college.

So why are you discouraging your kids from sitting in front of the console and playing games?

In this episode of All In With Esports, Lewis Johnson is joined by Danielle Johnson. Danielle is a teacher at Barabar Bush Middle School, but she’s also the Executive Director at Texas Scholastic Esports Federation.

Danielle discusses the huge opportunities that are waiting for kids who are interested in esports, and why it’s so important for her to help these students keep honing in on these skills and to introduce these technologies to other students. She also talks about her initiatives working in this new role at the Texas Scholastics Esports Federation.

To learn more about the Texas Scholastics Esports Federation, visit: https://www.texsef.org/

Full Episode Breakdown:

3:51 – Why encouraging your kids to get into gaming isn’t such a bad thing, and we meet Danielle Johnson.

6:12 – Danielle discusses what she teaches in her classroom, and why it’s so important to let them learn and explore technology.

8:12 – Danielle talks about when it was that she really saw a need to do more in technology with students.

11:50 – Why young Gen Z and Gen Alpha don’t watch traditional sports, and what’s most important to them.

13:10 – Danielle talks about what she learned about technology from a young age that inspired her to get involved with esports

15:10 – What it was about her environment that taught Danielle to really embrace technology.

18:39 – Danielle discusses how she ended up becoming the Executive Director of the Texas Scholastic Esports Federation  

20:44 – What were some of the most important changes Danielle wanted to make in her new role?

22:57 – Are Booster Clubs who help pay for esports specifically be created? Danielle lets us in on why this isn’t something that is too far off in the future.

25:35 – Why the Minnesota Varsity Esports League is paving the way, and why high schoolers who love esports really need to pay attention. There’s a lot of open jobs.

29:37 – What it was like to open the school on a virtual basis, and what they had to do to overcome that, and why being inclusive is so important and how esports does that.