It's also been used in the Future City Competition by seventh- and eighth-grade students to foster engineering skills and inspire students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering.
SimCity is the epitome of constructionist educational games, and has been widely used by educators to unlock and speed-up the transformational skills associated with creative thinking. SimHacker writes 'Electronic Arts has donated the original 'classic' version of Will Wright's popular SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child project.