Quick: Name your congressman. OK, great. Now name the man in Washington who represents your next door neighbor. Is it someone different? Mine is! And that’s because of gerrymandering, the highly partisan map-making practice that rigs elections toward one party that … well, we don’t need to get into what that party’s doing to our country. But the good news is that the Youth are taking notice, particularly in the far-flung northwest corner of Texas’ boar’s-leg-shaped Congressional District 10, where the kids in the Lafair family built Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game, a board game that teaches about the effects of gerrymandering by letting you, the player, be the power-hungry lawmaker who gets to crack and pack voters into non-representational districts. The Lafairs put their idea on Kickstarter and to date have raised $67,490 from 1,468 backers. You can order the game there.
