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Rapua is free for educators and public communicators (e.g., science communicators and museum educators). There's a Pay What You Want option if you would like to contribute to the develop and upkeep of Rapua.

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Pay What You Want pricing is available to educators. Sign up with your organisational email address and choose Educator pricing. Any accounts not registered through an official email address will be refunded and terminated.

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Hi, I'm Nathan! I've been developing educational software for years as a science communicator manager of a student service. Rapua is a combination of some of the recurring components of projects that I've worked on.

Rapua as a platform was built give facilitators as much flexibility as possible to control how participants move about a physical space. For example, when setting up the experience, you can choose between whether players can move about freely, select locations from their own random list, or follow a set order.

All options are pedagogically informed and designed to solve real-world needs. Rapua gives hints about which to choose based on your needs.

Not to brag, but I wrote my thesis on scalable and efficient place-based learning. I've been thinking about this for a while.
(To brag, I got an A+.)

*Rapua* is the te reo Māori word for "search" or "explore." The name was given to the platform by the Law faculty at the University of Otago, for whom the first version of this platform was developed. The name reflects the platform's content at the time, which was about tikangi Māori, the land, and the law, and which also reflects the platform's focus on exploration and discovery.