The Mid-Prairie School Board has approved the addition of Esports at the high school.  Kurtis Broeg is the coordinator of the high school’s Enriched Learning Program and he says Esports is more than one-to-one video games, “It’s actually a cooperative activity, it is online, and you do compete against people maybe from just down the road or across the country or another country. It does involve teamwork, there are new games all the time. There’s different positions or roles you play in each game and usually involves two to five participants per team.” Broeg says bringing Esports to Mid-Prairie has been in the works since 2018 and they hope to have teams competing by next spring. The school board has approved funding up to about $31,000. Broeg says students beyond Esports will benefit from the computer-based program, “I want to point out that these computers are also used during the day for independent study, for designing things, for higher end programming.” Broeg says Esports has grown in recent years, enough so that there are now Esports college scholarships.