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iCivics

Using digital games to teach civics

iCivics is the education nonprofit that US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded in 2009 to transform civic education and rebuild civic strength through digital games and lesson plans. It is the country’s largest provider of civic education content and is currently used by more than 120,500 educators and 7.6 million students annually. All of its games are free, nonpartisan, and available at www.icivics.org. Through their use of HAQM Aurora, HAQM ElastiCache, HAQM CloudFront, and AWS CodeDeploy—and AWS security automation tools including AWS Security Hub, HAQM Inspector, and HAQM GuardDuty—iCivics has been able to scale and increase student engagement.