Mike Fischthal

CEO, The Pixel Academy

Mike’s passion lies in developing entertaining and educational content for youth. He has worked in all roles of a game design team, from developer to designer. Mike was Senior Game Designer at Nickelodeon and Lead Designer of Nicktropolis, one of the most popular children’s virtual worlds to date. Since then he has lead the design and development of educational mobile, tablet and web-based applications. During the summers and after-school during the school year, Mike teaches lessons in video game design and programming to groups of youth in New York City and has worked with the New York Public Library to teach 3D Design and printing to teens. In 2012 he founded The Pixel Academy which is scheduled to open it’s first state-of-the art media lab for youth in Brooklyn, NY. The first of it’s kind, it will engage youth in all forms of digital creation, including game design.