Game-based challenges create local, regional and national engagement while helping organizations, agencies and employers discover interest, persistence, task engagement, and pathway potential.
A foundation in competitive sim racing
Simulation Skills Challenges stand on experience, not theory. The practice was built by running competitive sim racing programs before it was applied to workforce skills.
12+
Years of simulation-based skills development
The challenge design behind this program was built in competitive sim racing. That decade of experience putting people inside realistic, high-stakes simulated work is what lets a challenge feel real on the first try.
Spatial Experiences and Digital Twins are core FGN strengths, built on the capability and studio talent FGN acquired with Metameisters. They let challenge environments mirror real equipment, real workflows and real work sites.
Reach participants through broadband operators, organizations, employers, schools, creators and community partners.
Place participants in a realistic game-based task or program environment.
Observe interest, persistence, decision-making patterns, and task performance that can help guide the next conversation.
Introduce relevant careers, training, certification, apprenticeship and employer pathways.
Track participation, engagement, progression, referrals, and documented program outcomes.
Program building blocks
Each program is designed around the industry, audience, geography, pathway and agreed definition of success.
Realistic game-based tasks and challenge mechanics aligned to the program objective.
Explore Challenge DesignParticipant feedback, scoring, and progression within the challenge framework.
Review MeasurementConnections to training, certification, apprenticeship and opportunity.
Explore PathwaysSponsor participation and discovery opportunities within the program.
Explore Employer ValueFrom the participant's point of view
The five-stage journey above is the program framework. Here is what it looks like for a single participant, in one continuous story.
A young adult hears about it through their broadband operator, a school counselor or a community post. The framing is not a test. It is an invitation to try something real.
They open a simulator and step into a task drawn from an actual industry, such as operating equipment, troubleshooting a system, or working through a scenario.
The program can capture participation, persistence, task decisions, scoring, and progression within the defined challenge framework.
At the end, they receive feedback on participation, scoring, progression, and the career pathways connected to the challenge.
FGN connects that person to training providers, apprenticeship pathways or employers who are looking for exactly that kind of participant.
The program keeps track of the enrollments, referrals, interviews and placements it can substantiate, for the agreed program scope.
What participants take away
Trying a real task is a lower barrier than applying for something you have never seen.
Industries become concrete once someone has spent time inside the work.
Interest and persistence connect to training, apprenticeship or employer pathways.
For sponsors, employers and operators
The same program that gives a participant a way in gives an employer a way to meet them earlier than a job posting would. Sponsors choose the scale that matches their reach.
Local
Operators and community partners promote, host and support participants in the markets they serve.
Regional
Agencies and program partners connect industries, employers, training providers and reporting.
National
Organizations can coordinate consistent challenge and campaign frameworks across participating markets.
Programs run where the sponsor or operator already has presence and credibility.
Employers meet participants who have already chosen to spend time on the work.
Participation and substantiated outcomes are reported against what was agreed in advance.
Define success before the challenge begins
Sponsors document six inputs before launch so every participating audience, employer, and agency knows what success looks like.
Who the challenge is for, and how participants are reached through operators, schools, employers and community partners.
What a successful program should change for participants, employers and pathway partners.
The training providers, certification bodies, apprenticeships and employers involved from day one.
What is observed and captured during the challenge, and how it is recorded.
How participants stay connected to careers, training and apprenticeship after the challenge.
Only outcomes the program can substantiate are reported, against the scope agreed before launch.
Qualitative framework. Numeric outcome examples publish once specific examples are cleared for public use.
Design a challenge program
FGN will help structure the challenge, participant journey, pathway partners, employer role, communications and measurement plan.
FGN Academy
Simulation challenges connect to FGN Academy, the site where courses, simulations and the skill passport are delivered. Anyone can look before registering.
Frequently asked
No. Simulation Skills Challenges support discovery and engagement. They are not presented as formal psychometric assessments unless separately validated.
Yes. Programs can connect participants to training, certification, apprenticeship, and employer pathways. Reported outcomes such as interviews, enrollments, or placements are only shared when the program can substantiate them.
They are core FGN strengths, built on the capability and studio talent FGN acquired with Metameisters, and they are delivered inside Simulation Skills Challenges as realistic simulation environments rather than as a standalone offer.
