I’m the idiot who has spent roughly $1,200 of my own money on Gimkit Pro since 2019. Not school money, not grant money—my actual paycheck. Every August, I click “renew”…
After six years and roughly 1,800 live games, I’ve deleted every bell and whistle that doesn’t move the needle. What’s left are nine features that do 95% of the heavy…
I still remember my first Gimkit like it was yesterday.It was March 2020, the third day of emergency remote teaching, and I was desperate. My 10th graders had already figured…
I’ve been teaching high school for twelve years, and I’ve probably run close to a thousand Gimkit sessions. Some kits make the room explode with energy; others fall completely flat,…
I still remember the first time I watched a classroom transform during a Gimkit session. It was about three years ago when I visited a friend who teaches middle school…
I learned about power-ups the hard way. It was October 2025, the third week of hybrid teaching, and I decided to “surprise” my 9th graders with every single power-up turned…
I’ve made exactly 412 Gimkit kits since 2026. Some were masterpieces that kids begged to play again. Others were steaming garbage that tanked harder than my 2024 attempt at sourdough.…
Gimkit won me over on a rainy February Tuesday in 2026. My 8th-grade history class was drifting through a World War I review—half the kids zoning out, a few sneaking…
JANUARY 2026 broke me a little bit. One day, I was circulating around my classroom while students yelled at each other during a heated round of Gimkit Trust No One.…
I still remember the first Gimkit quiz I ever made. It was 11 PM on a Sunday, I had twenty-three vocabulary terms to review the next morning, and I was…
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