Garden State Scholastic Esports

Our goal is to improve students' social and emotional well being, academic performance, and understanding of the career pathways available to them in the esports ecosystem by providing meaningful competition, learning events, and community of practice to socialize with.

Garden State Esports is working with stakeholders to empower them to use scholastic esports as platform to improve student learning outcomes. We provide the competition needed to help students improve their teamwork, leadership, and communication skills by running a free-to-join league. We have curriculums and partners that help us infuse career and technical education (CTE) as well as social and emotional learning (SEL) into our events and empower teachers to infuse CTE and SEL into their esports practices. We engage parents and school personnel to help them to understand the power of scholastic esports and help them build a robust esports program at their school or community organizations.

We have a dedicated team of GSE staff, classroom teachers, and industry partners who come together to use esports elevate all students. GSE isn’t our job, it’s our passion. Everyone at GSE is a full-time NJ educator. Together we have 200+ years combined teaching experience.

In a little over a year, we have scaled GSE to serve 130 school districts in NJ. That's over 20% of the state. As we continue to grow, we are looking to add 100 school districts a year as well as community organizations like the Boys and Girls Clubs and YMCAs. With over 3,000 active participants, GSE has the ability to reach a huge swath of NJ youth and the teachers and schools who support them in their learning.